Paul Schreyer: Pandemic simulation games – Preparation for a new era?

Political decisions during the Corona crisis did not come out of
the blue. The "war on viruses" began back in the 1990s as the
"war on bioterror." Research shows: For more than twenty years
since then, pandemic scenarios have been repeatedly rehearsed in
simulation exercises, first in the U.S., later coordinated
internationally. The titles of these exercises are reminiscent of
Hollywood productions: "Dark Winter" (2001), "Global Mercury"
(2003), "Atlantic Storm" (2005) or "Clade X" (2018). High-ranking
government representatives as well as well-known journalists were
involved, most recently, at "Event 201" in October 2019, also
board members of large global corporations. After the World
Health Organization (WHO) declared a coronavirus pandemic in
2020, many of the measures that had been rehearsed and discussed
for years were implemented globally. Passages like the following
appeared in scripts as early as 20 years ago: "The sight of an
armed military presence in US cities has provoked protests about
curtailment of civil liberties (...) The question is, however,
how do we enforce it and to what degree? How much force do you
use to keep people in their homes?" In the event of a pandemic,
"basic civil liberties such as freedom of assembly or travel"
could no longer „taken for granted". Restrictions on liberty, as
well as mass vaccinations, were regular features of the planning
games. This lecture will chronologically trace how these
exercises came about, who organized them, and what parallels the
scripts have to the current situation. Is the virus just a
pretext for a longer-planned global transformation? And was a
severe stock market quake in September 2019 perhaps the real
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