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Perhaps unrelated, but the sudden vaping illness in 2019 was also identified first in Ft Detrick area. It's just another possible point on the timeline since Ft Detrick is always a suspect when biowarfare agents and clandestine testing are involved. It's where the post 9-11 anthrax and small pox threats originated.. the vape threat seems to have vanished from news of concern.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/10/09/army-confirms-two-soldiers-being-treated-severe-lung-injuries-vaping.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-army-is-treating-two-soldiers-for-vaping-related-lung-illness-11570624268?mod=e2twp

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49649486

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

When you lay it out like this It’s hard to argue against national and/or corporate conspiracy. But what stumps me, what I can’t fathom is how Israel would be a willing participant in this?

For obvious historical reasons I would say there is absolutely zero chance they would play along. And yet. How can this be explained?

Can there be corporate conspiracy without governmental conspiracy. Can the global governmental reaction be explained by fear, hysteria and an unwillingness to admit a screw up?

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That is an awful lot of suspicious coincidences 🤔

Regarding France adding hydroxychloroquine to the List II of poisonous substances, that is a horrifying discovery. What about those who rely on this medication for non-COVID applications? Even Australia, which has banned hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for treating COVID, at least still permits their use for other conditions.

My mom, for instance, depends on Plaquenil to manage her lupus. When she tried going without it for a spell, she wound up in the hospital with pneumonia and off-the-charts inflammation levels.

The monumental damage to both personal and public health just keeps snowballing at an astronomical pace from every conceivable angle.

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I wonder (perhaps ignorantly) if throwing the timing off also contradicts some of the information that the NIH is now conceding regarding the Fauci/gain of function debacle. In their recent admission, they claim that the work being done from 2018-2019 is allegedly too different from the SARS-CoV-2 virus to be the progenitor... but maybe the focus is on the wrong project because of the mainstream timeline?

For what little its worth, myself and my family were very sick with intensive flu-like symptoms at the very end of 2019. Being in the US, we still suspected it was COVID pretty early on into the officially acknowledged pandemic. The nature of this alleged novel disease, being similar to other known maladies, creates all sorts of issues. It definitely seems possible that it could have been around far earlier than reported, under the radar... provided you even accept it's existence at all (which I tend to, but it's not an unreasonable position, given all the rubber rulers we're "measuring" things with).

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Oct 22, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thanks for linking to Dr. Campbell. Cool YouTube channel!

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2019: Event 201

2019: Stress Tests: An Insight Into Crisis Scenarios, Simulations and Exercises (Unleashing 'Virus Z') https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Brief%209%20Scenarios.pdf

2018: European Commission, Exercise Chimera https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/default/files/preparedness_response/docs/2018_hybridthreatsexercise_en.pdf

2010: Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture https://espas.secure.europarl.europa.eu/orbis/sites/default/files/generated/document/en/Global%20Governance%202025.pdf

2004: Pharma Futures, a scenario planning project on the future of the global pharmaceutical industry https://web.archive.org/web/20101230131213/http:/www.gbn.com/articles/pdfs/PharmaFutures%20Scenarios%20Final%20Report%2012.04.pdf

The problem I have with the lab leak theory is that for all intents and purposes, COVID is inconsequential, not much more severe than the common cold for all but the oldest and most infirm, many of whom were just murdered with midazolam, so why would they need to get ahead of it with a great big lie? As for whether it really was circulating earlier than late 2019, who's to say what the tests are detecting? The bulk, if not all, of the PCR tests are based on other coronavirae spliced together in silico, at least for the better part of 2020, and each brand/lab is testing for a different segment of the sequence. Why would we believe the other types of tests are testing for something novel? If Kary Mullis hadn't developed sudden heart failure just before Event 201 kicked off, I'm sure he'd have something to say.

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I wrote this to you on Twitter, but I'll leave it here too for people to see:

In September 2019, Trump signed an executive order allowing for the development and distribution of novel vaccines for the flu.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-09-24/pdf/2019-20804.pdf

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Pretty convincing. But, ought to be easily verifiable in California 2018/9 donor samples. CA was essentially the Chinese middle class's university campus in the years running up to 2019. I haven't paid as much attention to last year's studies looking for pre-existing immunity to see if any were in California, I'll have to go back.

If true, the implication is 1) This accounts for the West Coast's magic imperviousness to SARS-CoV-2 (before the pseudo-vaccines) 2) Not knowing about or paying attention to the virus would have led to worldwide acquisition of immunity with barely any excess mortality (probably already a safe bet anyway).

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1) More 'coincidence' - there was a fairly big media campaign against 'anti-vaxers' in February of 2019. I remember specifically Pinterest banning any search results for searches containing the word "vaccine". 2) I don't know how reliable any of the antibody seroprevalence studies are, but it seems they would provide some insight on how early and widespread we had SARS-COV2.

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The vaping lung illnesses from April 2019-February 2020...a mysterious lipid pneumonia and an illness that presented with ground glass opacities in the lungs, tachycardia in 55% of cases, embolic events, myocardial infarction. Most cases were young males. If DNA vaccines didn't have to be refrigerated, I'd almost swear some vapes were tainted with an inhalable Covid vaccine. 9% of the lipids detected in samples were PEG. One company targeted with a lawsuit was called CCELL, a technology brand owned by Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited, in China.

The vaping illnesses fit into the Covid picture...or the Covid vaccine picture. Would be nice to know how.

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But if this virus were circulating in Asia in 2018, with all the air travel going on, how did it not spread to the west very easily? Unless this virus just isn't as contagious as they say it is, and has an R-factor closer to the original SARS. I would not be surprised if that's true.

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Mar 17, 2022·edited Mar 17, 2022

Anecdotal: I was in Greece summer 2018 flying to Santorini: a Chinese national coughed throughout the flight. 2 days later my husband and I were coughing. My husband took antibiotics and was done in 3 weeks. I didn’t take anything and was sick for 2 more weeks having trouble breathing until a doctor prescribed budesonide inhaler. I’m sure we had COVID in the summer of 2018.

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Bobby Kennedy's book does a nice job of documenting the many, many dress rehearsals that date back to not long after 9/11.

I'm not saying that there wasn't a lab leak quite a bit earlier than November or December 2019, but Event 201 is not unique.

Gates is the Halliburton of disease fearmongering; it's unsurprising (although creepy and bad) that he was propagandizing an eventual pandemic for which the only solution would be for every government in the world to torch human rights and buy vaccines from companies in which he's massively invested. He (and others like him) have been doing it for half my life.

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Jan 22, 2022·edited Jan 22, 2022

I believe I had a COVID back in early 2019. All the symptoms described - loss of taste and smell. Turned in to bronchitis. Took a couple of months to get rid of it. Was on budesinide and other RXs. Haven’t caught COVID since the pandemic was announced. After 2 months of lockdown ended in Sping 2020 I’ve been out and about every single day.

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So many conspiracies come true it will turn up that Earth is flat at the end :)

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Backreading this chain of posts (as I have been out of action) and, as always, thoroughly impressed with your analysis. Your particular skillset, modeling financial and medical data, and dogged information intake, reveals the complex machinations occluding the mundanely simple imperative Follow the Money!

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