Fort Detrick in Maryland a Biosafety Level 4 Lab run by the US Army was closed August 2019 by the CDC over fears that contaminated water cloud leak out of the facility and compromise the public.
Fort Detrick has been the epicentre of the US Army’s bioweapons research since the beginning of the Cold War and was banned by the CDC from working with deadly Smallpox, Ebola and anthrax.
The BSL 4 lab experience a leak in 2009, research at Fort Detrick was suspended because it was discovered it was storing pathogens which were not listed on its inventory.
The regulations on keeping close track of hazardous biological material were tightened after the 2001 anthrax attacks, which saw five people die after spores were posted to several media newsrooms and Democratic senators.
The FBI’s chief suspect in the 2001 case, Bruce Ivins, was a senior biological weapons researcher at Fort Detrick. He killed himself in 2008, shortly before the FBI was planning to charge him with the attacks.
But in spite of Fort Detrick leaks in the past, the Trump administration has reopened the lab in the fight for coronavirus to help develop a vaccine, treatment and testing equipment, and the US Dept could provide more funding since the CDC is withholding funding from the lab.
USAMRIID received a sample of the virus from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Kathleen Gibson, chief of the Core Laboratory Services Division at USAMRIID.
Researchers at the laboratory are cultivating the virus in order to have enough for future tests and other needs. That can include making sure a test result is correct. At USAMRIID, the virus is multiplied, purified and then divided among projects, Gibson said.
On March 17, in a sign of USAMRIID’s growing prominence, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper visited the facility, about 50 miles northwest of the nation’s capital.
Esper told reporters afterward that he was confident the scientists he met with are among the world’s best equipped to take on the coronavirus.
“If anybody knows how to do it, they know how to do it,” Esper said.
Dr Francis Boyle creator of Bioweapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 has been making the rounds on talk-shows and disputing the work that was performed at BSL 3 and BSL 4 labs.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo attending the Group of 20 Summit held virtually at the Bogor Palace in West Java on March 26. (Presidential Press Bureau/Courtesy of Cabinet Secretariat)
Yesterday meeting of G20 nations, WHO, IMF, WB, UN and other alphabets co-signatories lead to them making a join statement about the Covid-19 response.
In a joint statement adopted at the summit, G20 leaders agreed to further commit to work together to increase research and development funding for vaccines and medicines, leverage digital technologies and strengthen international scientific cooperation.
“We will bolster our coordination, including with the private sector, toward rapid development, manufacturing and distribution of diagnostics, antiviral medicines and vaccines,” the statement said.
They also agreed to allocate money to the fight COVID-19 in their members countries and PM Modi called for a stronger WHO.
PM Narendra Modi called for a stronger World Health Organisation(WHO). He said that international organizations like WHO, built on models of the previous century, need to be strengthened and reformed.
They did not have the mandate to deal with the pandemic of this sort, which is why empowering of WHO is necessary, be it in terms of its capacity for early warning or development of effective vaccines.
That sounds like a call for a one world government so to speak.
“The finance ministers of the G20 have indicated they would allocate US$4 billion to be mobilized throughout the world, especially in the G20 countries, to accelerate research and find a COVID-19 vaccine. This issue is currently under discussions at the level of the G20’s finance ministers,” Sri Mulyani said after the teleconference.
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who had accompanied Jokowi in the meeting, said all G20 member countries, the WHO and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) would collaborate in efforts to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development.
Jokowi joined the virtual teleconference hosted remotely by G20 chairman and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to discuss international efforts and stronger cooperation to fight the spread of COVID-19.
“The G20 must actively lead efforts to find a COVID-19 antivirus and vaccine together with the World Health Organization,” the Indonesian President said as quoted in a press statement released by the Presidential Secretariat.
On the occasion, Jokowi also encouraged G20 member countries to work together to synchronize economic policies and instruments to counter the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The President stressed at the end of his statement that G20 countries had a role to foster world confidence to get through the health crisis.
Thursday, March 26, 2020 World leaders will come together for an emergency meeting to talk via video conferencing about Covid-19.
Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies will convene a video conference on Thursday to discuss the coronavirus epidemic, the Saudi secretariat said, amid criticism that the group has been slow to respond to the global crisis.
G20 finance ministers and central bankers agreed during a separate video conference this week to develop an “action plan” to respond to the outbreak, which the International Monetary Fund expects will trigger a global recession. A subsequent statement offered few details.
All of the usual suspect will be there including:
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are among the heads of state who will take part in Thursday’s G20 leaders’ summit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is taking part in the summit from her apartment in Berlin, where she is in quarantine after a doctor who gave her a pneumonia vaccination tested positive for the virus. Two tests on Merkel have come back negative for the virus, but she’ll still need more tests.
The virtual summit will also include leaders from the World Health Organization, the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Labor Organization and others.
But what is the purpose of this ad-hoc emergency meeting that was scheduled without the public’s notice until today.
To save humanity or to save themselves, a scene from the movie 2012 is a good indication of what may happen to the rest of us 7 billion people on the planet.
Jean Seimple is saying to run for the hills because COVID-19 is a cover for another earth shattering event, and the world leaders are aware of this.
MARCH 25, 2020
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Prince Charles greets Ant and Dec at the London Palladium on March 11Credit: Getty – Pool
Back in mid-February I received a vision that a famous UK celebrity would get coronavirus. During that time the coronavirus was not as widespread in the UK or Europe; Itlay and Spain were not on lockdown because the virus was primarily focused in China.
” A celebrity from the UK succumbed to a medical illness and the world take notices, was it the coronavirus'”. -February 15, 2020
Today the news broke that Prince Charles of Wales has contracted the coronavirus.
A source said his doctor’s most conservative estimate was that the prince was contagious on March 13.
Photo: Prince Prince sat opposite Prince Albert on March 10.
Charles has fallen ill just a fortnight after meeting coronavirus-stricken Prince Albert of Monaco, who tested positive after he sat opposite the Prince of Wales at a WaterAid event in London on March 10, 24 hours after he was last seen in public with his mother.
But despite avoiding close contact with people he has caught Covid-19 – and it came days after a member of Buckingham Palace staff tested positive for coronavirus.
He was last at Buckingham Palace on March 12 for investitures, and his illness will raise fears for the health for elderly royals including the Queen and Prince Philip, who are together at Windsor Castle.
The Queen left Buckingham Palace March 19 for Windsor Castle.
The Prince of Wales has ‘mild symptoms’ of the virus, which has killed 424 people across the UK. He is otherwise ‘remains in good health’, a spokesperson for the Royal Family said.
He has been working from home in Scotland for the last few days, where he is accompanied by Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. She has tested negative for the virus.
The spokesperson continued: ‘In accordance with government and medical advice, the Prince and the Duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland. The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria required for testing.
‘It is not possible to ascertain from whom the Prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.’
In my vision, the word succumb means to die and it has been predicted that Prince William will be King after Queen Elizabeth’s death and there are concerns that the Queen may be infected as most of the senior royals are at high risk because they are at least in their 70s and up.
Die from the effect of a disease or injury. The very helpful Etymonline website says the use of succumb meaning “to die from” goes back to the mid-1800s: Originally transitive; sense of “sink under pressure” is first recorded c. 1600. As a euphemism for “to die,” from 1849.
Some are saying that Coronavirus with the influence of 5G rearranges the DNA that helps mutates the virus in humans, and that 5G does not cause the Coronavirus.
NTT Docomo Inc. said Wednesday it will launch smartphone services based on superfast 5G technology on March 25, two days ahead of its rival SoftBank Corp.
NTT Docomo said it plans to offer the 5G service allowing data transmission of up to 100 gigabytes at a monthly fee of ¥7,650 excluding tax. But it added that for the time being there will be no upper limit on the data amount due to a promotional campaign.
The country’s largest carrier by number of subscribers also said it will provide 5G services in about 150 areas in the country as of March 31 and aims to install at least one network base station in each of the 47 prefectures by the end of June.
By late March next year, it plans to build base stations in more than 500 cities in the country.
Wireless carrier SoftBank Corp. said Thursday it will launch 5G services on March 27, becoming Japan’s first major mobile carrier to release its plans for the superfast next-generation telecommunications service.
SoftBank said it plans to charge an additional ¥1,000 ($9) per month for 5G but will exempt existing and new customers for two years under a sales campaign that will run through August.
The nation’s third-largest mobile phone carrier by number of subscribers said 5G services would be available in Tokyo, Osaka, Chiba, Aichi, Hiroshima, Ishikawa and Fukuoka prefectures from March 31 and that it eventually aims to install over 10,000 base stations by the end of March 2023.
Pope Francis who may or may not have the coronavirus but he has been sequestered has made a call on the world to pray March 25, 2020 12 Noon Rome time.
The day itself is a special day to Roman Catholic as the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Annunciation of Our Lady.
It is believed that Mother Mary will carry our prayers to God just as Archangel Gabriel carried the message to her from God about the birth of Christ.
Oddly enough there is a Roman Catholic Saint who is one of the patrons of pandemics and her name is Saint Corona, and she is buried in Northern Italy.
Saint Corona is thought to have lived in 2nd century Syria under Roman occupation. She was only 15-years-old when she professed her Christian Faith during the persecution of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
According to legend, Saint Corona was arrested and tied by her feet to the tops of two palm trees which were bent to the ground. When the palms were let loose she was torn apart.
It is reported that Saint Corona is especially venerated in Austria and Bavaria as the patron saint against epidemics. Her mortal remains are now housed in the city of Anzu in northern Italy, the epicenter of the recent outbreak of Coronavirus in Europe. Her feast day is May 14.
Let’s all call on Saint Corona to pray for us and especially her feast day May 14, 2020.
On Mar 16, when White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx, MD, stood beside President Donald Trump and announced the “15 Days to Slow the Spread” campaign, she said guidance on home isolation was informed by the latest models from the United Kingdom.
Birx was likely referring to a new modeling study on likely US and UK outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, published yesterday by a team of epidemiologists at the Imperial College of London.
The study, which used pandemic data gathered in China, Italy, and South Korea, has been lauded by epidemiologists around the world as the most comprehensive prediction of what the US could be facing in the coming months. But it also paints some bleak pictures, including millions of deaths if little is done.
The model analyzes the two approaches to managing the virus. One is mitigation, or “flattening the curve,” which sees the novel coronavirus continue to spread, but at a slow rate so as not to overwhelm hospital systems. The other approach is suppression, which tries to reverse the pandemic through extreme social distancing measures and home quarantines of cases and their families, achieving an R0—or reproduction number—of less than 1.
“Each policy has major challenges,” the authors wrote. Mitigation “might reduce peak healthcare demand by 2/3 and deaths by half. However, the resulting mitigated epidemic would still likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and health systems (most notably intensive care units) being overwhelmed many times over.”
To avoid that, the country would need to focus on suppression. But suppression requires social distancing measures far longer than the 14 to 30 days Americans have been told to prepare for. Instead, they would need to be in place for 18 months, or until a vaccine is made available.
“I think the model’s broad conclusion is correct that there is a terrible dilemma of very long-term social distancing, or overloading healthcare systems, or both,” said Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, a professor of epidemiology and the director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard University. “With the options currently available I do not see a way to get out of this dilemma.”
To understand how mitigation or suppression would play out, the Imperial College team, led by Neil Ferguson, OBE, ran a model based on three scenarios. In the first, US officials do nothing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, schools and businesses are kept open, and the virus is allowed to move through the population.
This would result in 81% of the US population, about 264 million people, contracting the disease. Of those, 2.2 million would die, including 4% to 8% of Americans over age 70. More important, by the second week in April, the demand for critical care beds would be 30 times greater than supply.
If mitigation practices are put in place, including a combination of case isolation, home quarantine, and social distancing of those most at risk (over age 70), the peak critical care demand would reduce by 60%, and there would be half the number of deaths. But this scenario still produces an eightfold demand on critical care beds above surge capacity.
In order to suppress the pandemic to an R0 of below 1, a country would need to combine case isolation, social distancing of the entire population, and either household quarantine or school and university closure, the authors found. These measures “are assumed to be in place for a 5-month duration,” they wrote.
In addition, the authors said, these measures may have to be put back into place if restrictions are lifted and cases surge again.
Late last night, I received and e-mail from a friend who said that Marshall Law may be enacted in the US for an undetermined period
I asked who was the original source of this e-mail but there was no information available of when, who, why and how someone had inside information on the federal government real COVID-19 plans for America.
But this particular e-mail maybe be industrially circulating via chat, cell phone apps and the social media chains.
All we know is that Trump, Pence met at FEMA yesterday for a teleconferencing with all the 50 governors and Trump put FEMA in charge of the COVID-19 national response.
Oddly on the same day (@ midnight) after that meeting Governor Newsom ordered that the State of California is under a 24/7 lock down and stay at home order for all 40 million citizens with no determination for an end in site to this order.
And, regarding California a family member who I informed of the e-mailing circulating said that she received the same e-mail that I did about the federal government plans, and that the National Guard in California’s Bay Area are already patrolling the streets. Apparently, Governor Newsom has activated the National Guard.
“As Californians make sacrifices over the coming weeks and stay home, we are immensely grateful for medical providers, first-responders and National Guard personnel who are assisting those who are most vulnerable to COVID-19,” Newsom said in a statement.
Again, its hard to establish the validity of the e-mail but what else do we know. As Congress men and women are exposed and contracting COVID_19 and maybe Trump and Pence as well as other executive members of the federal government. We doubt if the government will stand by and do nothing.
According to a news story released by a national publication, Newsweek, the federal government’s military wing enacted a plan for COVID_19 Pandemic.
US Military Given ‘Continuity of Government’ Standby Orders for COVID-19 Pandemic
For the first time in the modern history of the United States, the Department of Defense has been given standby orders to ensure the “continuity of government”, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These extraordinary measures, which include evacuating White House officials to remote quarantined locations, and devolving the nation’s leadership to “second-tier officials”, were originally meant for the aftermath of a nuclear war.
However, according to Newsweek, “Above-Top Secret” contingency plans are now in place, in case the nation’s Constitutional power successors are incapacitated by the pandemic. Standby orders have been issued for a series of plans under the US Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which was created in response to the 9/11 attacks as a homeland defense military authority.
These operations are codenamed OCTAGON, FREEJACK and ZODIAC, said Newsweek, and include CONPLAN 3400 (homeland defense if the US itself is the battlefield), CONPLAN 3500 (defending civil authorities in an emergency), and CONPLAN 3600 (defending the National Capital Region from an attack). Newsweek added that the Defense Secretary, Mark T. Esper, has authorized NORTHCOM to “prepare to deploy” in support of these “potential extraordinary missions”. These include “the possibility of some form of martial law”, where military commanders would be given executive powers across the US until a new civilian leadership would emerge.
On February 1, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper signed orders directing NORTHCOM to execute nationwide pandemic plans. Secretly, he signed Warning Orders (the WARNORD as it’s called) alerting NORTHCOM and a host of east coast units to “prepare to deploy” in support of potential extraordinary missions.
The three most compartmented contingencies – Octagon, Freejack, and Zodiac – call upon various military units in Washington DC, North Carolina and eastern Maryland to defend government operations if there is a total breakdown. The seventh plan – codenamed Granite Shadow – lays out the playbook for extraordinary domestic missions that involve weapons of mass destruction. (I disclosed the existence of this plan in 2005, and its associated “national mission force”–a force that is on alert at all times, even in peacetime, to respond to a terrorist attack or threat with the nuclear weapon.)
This video released today by Jason Bermas confirms a Marshal Law or a National Lockdown taking effect Sunday, March 22, 2020:
