by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics:

Did they know what was coming?

Before this year’s very real coronavirus pandemic that started in China and is now sweeping the globe, a “fictional” simulation of such an event was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year.

Event 201, which was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took place in October 2018 and featured a simulation in which a novel zoonotic coronavirus spread throughout the world and caused 65 million deaths worldwide. In the preparedness scenario, the coronavirus started in Brazil rather than China.

“Once you’re in the midst of a severe pandemic, your options are very limited,” said Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. “The greatest good can happen with pre-planning.”

The event was hosted in New York City and attended by some of the most influential business leaders, government officials, and health officials. Attendees claimed that it really helped them rethink how they would handle disaster preparedness if such a situation were to arise.

“It really does shake up assumptions and change thinking about how we can prepare for a global pandemic,” says Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security.

Some of the highlights from the conference can be seen here:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and globalist World Economic Forum helped to put on the event. The coronavirus was described in the training as being similar to SARS “but slightly more transmissible, like the flu, and slightly more lethal.”

“We don’t have a vaccine for SARS, or MERS, or various avian flu viruses that have come up in the past decade,” Toner said, noting how the situation described in Event 201 could easily take place. “That’s because vaccine development is slow and difficult if there isn’t an immediate market for it.”

Widespread allegations have also emerged that patents were issued for the coronavirus, perhaps in anticipation for its release upon the masses:

Coronavirus is a man-made virus that was filed for patent in 2015 and granted in 2018 (link). A vaccine for it went into trial testing on January 1, 2020 (photo), and conveniently, the US had it’s first confirmed case of coronavirus just 3 weeks later?