Are You Ready for the NEW Virus Pandemic That They are Cooking Up for Us this Month?
Ernesto Giro
Apostle, Evangelist, Prophet, "International Expert", Orator, Artist, Music Producer & Songwriter
It seems that the Chinese and the WHO are at it again along with the powerful global elite Jesuit scientists at the Lab who are already "cooking up" a NEW viral disease called: "VIRUS X" to again release into the world like they did with Covid 19 back in 2020. So you need to be PREPARED for this new viral scourge coming up NOW this March of 2024.
How gene editing could be used as a weapon – and what to do about?it
It has been over 3 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. And perhaps the most important lesson is that we were completely unprepared to face the debilitating virus.
This raises some scary thoughts. What if the threat wasn’t COVID-19, but a gene-edited pathogen designed to turn us into zombies – ghost-like, agitated, eerie, gruesome, cannibalist, creatures with little awareness of our surroundings? With recent advances in gene editing, it may be possible for bio-terrorists to design viruses capable of altering our behavior, spreading such a disease and finally and ultimately killing us. And the reality and the chances are we still wouldn’t be sufficiently prepared to deal with it.
A zombie apocalypse may sound far-fetched, reserved for the annals of graphic novels, immersive gaming experiences and popular culture. But there are REAL and TRUE examples of "zombification" in nature. Perhaps the most well known is rabies, which can cause aggression and hallucination and is almost always fatal once symptoms appear.
But there are others. A recently discovered kind of wasp, for example, can turn a particular species of spider (Anelosimus eximius) into "zombies" by laying eggs on their abdomen. The resulting larvae then attaches itself to the spider, feeding on it, while the spider, once a social individual, leaves the colony and prepares to die alone.
Other zombification examples from nature include the African sleeping sickness, a fatal neurological condition created by insect-borne parasites and bacteria, and then there's the infamous Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus, which changes the behavior of carpenter ants before killing them and sprouting out of their heads.
Weaponising pathogens
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized the development of a type of genetic scissors called: CRISPR-Cas 9. Interest in this kind of technology has been simmering for a long while, with equal doses of excitement and fear. Because of its ability to edit the human genome with unprecedented precission, replacing a single letter in the DNA, CRISPR has already proven itself useful in treating many and various genetic conditions such as sickle cell disease, beta thalassemia, and many others.
But CRISPR-Cas9 could theoretically also be used for darker purposes, such as for bio-terrorism. It could alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or fatal. Alternatively, it could turn a non-pathogen, such as a harmless microbe, into an aggressive virus. Just like the upcoming "VIRUS X" for example.
"The technique may even be able to alter a virus in such a way to make it dangerous for a larger range of species than it currently infects, or make it resistant to antibiotics or antivirals."
Whether CRISPR could be used to infect humans in a way to make them zombie-like remains a theoretical speculation. At the moment, there are probably easier ways to terrorize people. But as bio-technologies improve in the wake of COVID, the risk from bio-terrorism is increasing.
If a zombie-like disease like "Virus X" could be created, it clearly wouldn’t make deceased people reawaken as zombies. But as an infection that passed through saliva with extremely high transmission and mortality rate, and which would have caused agitation, destructive behavior and death, wouldn’t be too far off from the horror that we see in zombie movies. Such a virus would spread rapidly from human to human in a similar manner to diseases such as Ebola and Marburg viruses. In the epic zombie film, 28 Days Later, the fictitious “rage virus” was, in fact, inspired by these two real-life viruses.
Given these possibilities, it is not surprising that the director of the US National Intelligence, James Clapper, termed gene editing “weapons of mass destruction and proliferation” in 2018.
Many countries are aware of the risks. In 2018, the US government released its first bio-defense strategy, involving multiple government agencies. The plan covers not only deliberate bio-terror threats, but also possible intentional or “naturally occurring outbreaks and infectious diseases that may be able to escape a lab accidentally” like what we have seen with the COVID-19 taking place in Wuhan China in 2020. And, curiously enough, the US Department of Defense Strategic Command unit has already issued a training program called: CONOP 8888 Counter Zombie Dominance, which simulates a zombie-like type of apocalypse situation. However, according to them, this was designed to be completely fictitious, providing military and defence training without the need to involve real, classified information.
What Is Disease X? How Scientists Are Preparing for the Next Pandemic
It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: “Disease X.” In fact, the term was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats — novel corona viruses like the one that causes Covid-19, for example — instead of just well known ones, like the Ebola virus. The idea was to encourage the development of certain platform technologies, including vaccines, drug therapies and diagnostic tests, that could be rapidly adapted and deployed in response to an array of "future outbreaks" with epidemic or pandemic potential.
It’s the somewhat mysterious name for an illness caused by a currently unknown, yet serious microbial threat. The World Health Organization added Disease X in 2017 to a short list of pathogens deemed a top priority for research, alongside known killers like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Ebola.
The issue made it even onto the agenda of the WEF (World Economic Forum) in Davos, Switzerland, with WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus joining other health officials to discuss it.
The vast reservoir of viruses circulating in wildlife are seen as a likely source of more such diseases. That is because of their potential to spill over and infect other species, including humans, giving rise to an infection against which people will have no immunity.
2. What’s the point of studying Disease X?
As WHO puts it, it is to “enable early cross-cutting R&D preparedness that is also relevant” for an unknown disease.
The humanitarian crisis sparked by the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was a wake-up call.
Despite decades of research, there were no products ready to deploy in time to save more than 11,000 lives.
In response, WHO created a research and development blueprint to accelerate development of a range of tools for “priority diseases”. The current list includes:
3. How is the research for the next pandemic going?
It took just 326 days from the release of the genetic sequence of the Sars-CoV-2 virus to the authorisation of the first Covid-19 vaccine, thanks in part to the work done since 2017 in preparation for Disease X.
Now, under a US$3.5 billion (S$4.8 billion) plan, certain groups like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (Cepi) are supporting rapid response vaccine platforms that could develop new immunisations within 100 days of a virus with pandemic potential emerging.
Other efforts under way include:
Still, many challenges threaten to undermine these efforts, including depleted and weakened health systems, a growing very anti-science movement that has increased vaccine hesitancy, and the potential for governments to eventually deprioritise funding for outbreak detection and preparedness as perceived risks dissipate.?
The World needs to start preparing for the next pandemic now: According to Top WHO official!
SINGAPORE - To avert a repeat of the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic, the world needs to start preparing for the next coming pandemic now. This is even amid the backdrop of a difficult global environment, with issues such as inflation and the Ukraine/Middle East crisis competing for attention, says an expert.
In a recent interview with The Straits Times on the sidelines of the 7th World One Health Congress on Friday, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Covid-19 technical lead, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, said countries need to leverage the trauma of Covid-19 right now to gear up for the next threat.?
“We have to use that horrible situation to build something better. If we don’t do it now, we won’t do it. We will just go from the next, to the next, to the next, and then be surprised and say, why didn’t we use that opportunity?” said the very well known American epidemiologist.?
Dr Van Kerkhove gave a keynote address to close the five-day congress held at Sands Expo and Convention Center. It was attended by 2,400 participants both in person and virtually.
In her speech, she said: "that in order to better tackle emerging threats, five Cs need to be in place." These are collaborative surveillance in order to pick up on new diseases; emergency coordination such as national action plans for alerting and readying prevention preparedness; access to countermeasures such as fast-track research and development; community protection; and safe and scalable care.?
Dr Van Kerkhove told ST that such efforts also need to be supported by a strong workforce and financing for such programs.?
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“We have to ensure that what we are doing for Covid-19, what we are doing for diseases that we know about, fits into the fiscal and political space and into the psyche of all of us in terms of the other challenges we are facing, like economic crises, war, and climate change,” she said.
She added that she hopes the legally binding pandemic treaty that the WHO is planning to negotiate and draft represents a promise by countries to prevent a situation like Covid-19.?
“Pandemic preparedness, I would argue, is a constant. People keep using this phrase – peacetime. I don’t think there is peacetime, we are constantly moving from fire to fire, and I think we need to ensure that we don’t let up.”
Dr Van Kerkhove said the WHO is planning for Disease X from different viral families, such as corona viruses, and arbo viruses, which are transmitted by mosquitoes.?
“So all our pandemic preparedness right now is being revised based as always on a respiratory disease scenario, and then the specifics for the known viral families and known pathogen.”
She added: “Everything has been focused on Covid-19 for so long, that we have to make sure that we don’t forget the other work that needs to be done.” ?
The WHO is also now currently working tirelessly on a proof of a concept for an interactive composite risk map that will include various pathogens, to enable for a better prediction of outbreaks, or mitigation, if it happens.
The map will be piloted in 12 countries, including the US which have not been shortlisted yet. Several years ago, a team of Cornell University researchers used statistical mechanics and techniques used in modern disease modeling and in case of critical phenomena?to explore how a zombie-like outbreak?might spread across the continental United States.?The researchers presented their work to the American Physical Society in 2015, and you can even play around with?their interactive model, running simulations based on?adjustable parameters such as?"kill-to-bite ratio" and the estimated time it might?take for a zombie to walk one mile.
"The idea of a deadly disease that not only kills its hosts, but turns those hosts into deadly vectors for the disease is scary enough to fuel an entire genre of horror stories and films," the study authors wrote in their introduction. "But at its root, zombism is just that: a disease, and so should be?amenable to the same kind of analysis and study that more traditional diseases have long benefited from."
According to these researchers'?calculations, most of the United States will have been infested by zombies within four weeks. However, the simulations show that even after four months, remote areas of Montana and Nevada would remain free of zombies.
Below is a screenshot of the interactive mapping tool, showing what a "Virus X" type hypothetical outbreak of zombies might look like in the continental United States,?several months into the outbreak.
So your best bet is likely to head toward one of those two states, or to simply hunker down somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Or, if you're in Canada,?there is a "Special" guide that?offers a list of the best (and worst) places for surviving an outbreak of zombies in Canada, based on things like population density, the number of renewable energy sources, the number of buildings with basements, the number of hospitals, the number of military bases, the number of hunting gear shops,?etc.
Here's what you'll want in your zombie?apocalypse kit
Now that we have a general idea of where to run and hide from the hypothetical zombies, let's consider what to pack.
Back in 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign intended to engage the public with some emergency preparedness messages, but it proved to be quite effective. The CDC notes on its zombie preparedness website that it is just a tool that continues to reach a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via "zombie preparedness." The website includes?a blog, lesson plans for educators, and a graphic novel on the subject.
Below are a few items the CDC recommends putting?in your emergency kit:
Once you’ve made your emergency kit, the CDC recommends creating a family emergency plan so that everyone in your family knows where to go if zombies start showing up in the streets — or during any number of more than likely new "Virus X" emergencies.
How would med-tech respond to an outbreak of zombies?
I can't help but wonder how the medical device industry would respond to a hypothetical outbreak of zombies. If we learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it's that this industry is full of really smart, hardworking?people who are not afraid to jump in and start working on solutions to really?big problems. From rushing supplies to the COVID-19 front-lines, to working around the clock to develop COVID-19 tests and new ventilators, and to?making sure those newly manufactured ventilators were properly tested, we saw countless examples of the medical device and diagnostics professionals stepping up in the early days of the pandemic?to help wherever they could.
So if there ever is an outbreak of zombies, you would count yourself fortunate to have a medical device engineer in your caravan party or entourage as well. While as usual researching and developing a NEW vaccine would obviously fall under the pharmaceutical industry's purview, med-tech minds would surely play a very important and major role in helping us survive until a vaccine is available.
Now how about this article from EXPRESS:
REVEALED: Zombie outbreak IS possible - and it only needs for the evolution of ONE parasite to happen!
"A ZOMBIE outbreak could occur, and it would only take the evolution of a certain virus or parasite to make it happen."
By SEAN MARTIN 07:39, Mon, Jul 19, 2021?| UPDATED:?07:40, Mon, Jul 19, 2021
It is one of the greatest fears of humanity, inspired by a bulk of Hollywood scary Horror movies, and scientists do believe that a zombie outbreak could happen.
While it would be impossible to believe that the dead would rise and feed on the living, experts do think that a parasite could affect the brain or that a NEW virus could evolve. A parasite called toxoplasmosa gondii is known to infect the brains of rodents. The parasite can then manipulate the rodent’s behavior to make it fearless around cats – where the parasite is hoping to end up.
The parasite has the ability to make the rodent head towards a cat where it will be eaten.
However, what worries scientists is how similar rats and humans are – which is why they are used for testing drugs and medical breakthroughs.
It is already believed that half of humans around the world have a dormant version of the parasite on their brains in the form of harmless cysts.
Nonetheless, for some with immune deficiencies, the parasite has taken over which has been linked to schizophrenia and suicidal tendencies.
"A study from the University of California revealed that the parasite is more powerful than previously thought."
Wendy Ingham, who was involved in the study, says that the team tested the parasite on mice which were ultimately unfazed by the presence of a predator once infected.
She warned that toxoplasma is dangerous: “The idea that this parasite knows a lot more about our brains than we do, and has the ability to exert its desired change in complicated rodent behavior, is absolutely fascinating.
“Toxoplasma has done a phenomenal job of figuring out mammalian brains in order to enhance its transmission through a complicated life cycle.”
Other experts however believe that viruses like "Virus X" are what will ultimately turn the human race into zombies.
Dr. Ben Neuman, a professor of virology at the University of Reading, believes that a virus such as rabies could evolve and conquer humanity.
He told Yahoo: “There are parasites out there that get close to making actual walking around zombies.
So please be very VIGILANT and watchful in the coming days and be READY to hear a SURPRISE News ALERT and possible STATEMENT from your local News and the WHO on this matter!