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New CT; Monkeypox.

COVID of course is a nothing illness anymore and everyone is sick to death of it, but no worries, monkeypox is a new disease that has started to make waves.

Of course, this is a CT theory and not an actual discussion on monkeypox but the CT goes that this disease has been planned and will in effect become the next pandemic. Where does this CT come from?

Last year, the NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures—exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy. Developed in consultation with technical and policy experts, the fictional exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that first emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

Discussions throughout the tabletop exercise generated a range of valuable insights and key findings. Most significantly, exercise participants agreed that, notwithstanding improvements following the global response to COVID-19, the international system of pandemic prevention, detection, analysis, warning, and response is woefully inadequate to address current and anticipated future challenges. Gaps in the international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architecture are extensive and fundamental, undermining the ability of the international community to prevent and mount effective responses to future biological events—including those that could match the impacts of COVID-19 or cause damage that is significantly more severe.

Just to say at this point, where monkeypox is in no way threat to society like COVID was and, based on what we know, will never be a threat like COVID, that monkeypox becoming something that has restrictions once again imposed on societies would, for me, be almost impossible to believe was anything other than a Trojan horse or a deflection for something more nefarious.

Over 15 million dead. The survival rate is 98% not the nonsensical 99.9% regularly referred to. One in fifty die. That's too much and protecting our most vulnerable is essential.

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Are the participants of the study/exercise claiming that it was trial run for a secret evil plot to take over the world?

For other examples of conspiracy theories about pandemics being used to take over the world, you only need to look at this thread.

Have a search on the forum for terms like Zika, swineflu, birdflu, SARS. you'll find basically the same stuff being claimed in those threads too.

Likewise, look up Jade Helm and other "readiness excerise" related terms.

But I had heard of monkeypox before hand. Cause it's a funny sounding word. The disease has been around for ages. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html

But that doesn't really answer the question. Why would they use monkeypox in both the exercise and the real deal? Why drop a clue like that?

Why not do the excerise with a different disease? Or do it with monkeypox, but then say in public that it was a different disease. Or better yet, keep the excerise entirely secret.

OK. So they so arrogant that they're going to leave a hint about their secret plan out in the open for literally no reason?

Do you understand how that sounds a little silly for most people whodunit subscribe to conspiracy theories?

Do these experts claim that their plan is to introduce measures that aren't needed for nefarious purposes? I'm still a bit confused as to why the fact they are experts is somehow supporting the conspiracy theory here.

But good for you for actually nailing down a failure condition for your conspiracy theory. That's a rare sight.

So if there's no new restrictions or measures due to monkey pox by the end of June you'll admit that thr conspiracy theory was false?

Why not June?

Conspiracy theories like this never actually give themselves set deadlines, usually so they can weasel and squirm away from their claims.

So what will happen by the end of June that will indicate that the conspiracy theory is correct? What will indicate that it was not correct?

Ok. So if by the end of June there's no restrictions due to monkey pox, you'll agree the theory has failed?

What are you defining as "calls for restrictions"? That's a very wishy washy term I think.

But why does it not make sense for you to see articles about it in the media?

Why does "It's a global worldwide conspiracy to introduce evil restrictions" make sense to you? Especially given that this was claimed for covid too.

Sh1t!!

If you like a timeline, then I'm afraid we are veering out of the CT world and into the real world. A CT is by its very definition not something that I could nail down specifically to a timeline or even to a specific set of events. If you would like it to be like this then I would suggest the Current Affairs thread on the topic.

Therefore, what I will say adds credence to this CT is that we see the following progress in the disease;

1. A narrative starts to appear that there is something being looked at here, usually accompanied with a "we're not worried, but doing some monitoring". This is to plant a seed in the public discourse and get people aware of the disease.
2. The narrative shifts slightly more towards highlighting that there is something to be concerned about for certain people, but it is left a bit vague in how it is communicated so you find there are more people concerned than actually should be concerned if they read around the media reports and focused on the hard data.
3. Some other country will be reported in the local news because they have taken what appears to be a serious and strong reaction to monkeypox e.g. re-introducing masks or imposing restrictions on certain travel or even on certain groups. However, while more people are now starting to take note of monkeypox, they still feel that there is a distance to what is happening in that country.
4. Calls grow for certain action, portrayed as minimal, to combat spread of monkeypox, pointing to the other country that took measures and using them as a guide for what we should be doing. The official line from the government is that they are now monitoring the situation but not looking to introduce anything. Hysteria grows in the public discourse.
5. Word gets out through backchannels that some measures will be introduced, ultimately followed by such measures being introduced. As these measures are introduced then the nefarious action that hid in the Trojan horse of monkeypox gets carried out (e.g. biometric passports, central banks keeping rates low and commencing QE once again).

No, you're not nailing down the conspiracy theory because I suspect you're trying to leave yourself some wriggle room for when the predictions fail.

If you were actually basing this on any special insight or secret information, you wouldn't have any issues being specific. Instead it just kinda looks like you're making all of this up like people did with covid and pretty much every previous pandemic and health crisis.

So by what time will the 5 points you posted play out?

End of June? Six months? Some vaguely defined deadline far in the future that you'll never actually have to face?

On the plus side we will no upgrade to 6G.

I'm sure someone has done this already, but would be curious to get OP's thoughts as of today, on his above post. Likely won't get any response but thought I'd ask none the less...

I think you've lost sight of the actual CT and focused on the potential reasons as to why monkeypox could be a trojan horse. I mean, I have not hung my hat on any of the possible reasons as to why there may be a subversive motive for talking up this fairly benign illness and if that is the direction to go down well in theory we could be here forever trying to think of possible reasons as to why a pandemic would be used as a cloak to introduce measures on society that would otherwise be a tough sell without a seemingly bona fides motive (i.e. to protect society from the pandemic we need to introduce X).

To what end?

Semi is usually a half, winter is a quarter of a year. Get your units of measurement right when polishing the turds of someone else's delusions.