i really don't know why i'm bothering given that interested users can see for themselves exactly what i said.... but here are verbatim quotes from my posts on this topic:
"its not relevant. these sorts of things happen all of the time, its part of being prepared for possibilities. if you hold a couple such events a year, chances are that when a virus hits the news, one of the exercises performed over the past few years will have been for that type of threat."
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"look, in my job we frequently talk about how we would engineer a bioterrorism attack, exactly what we would do, how we would spread it etc. if there is a bioterrorism attack that i haven't written down in my notes somewhere as a possibility then i've failed. does that mean, when such an attack happens, that i was involved in the conspiracy? no. the same goes for these guys. if a possibility that you haven't considered, when doing that is part of your fucking job, then you sucked at your job. all you're saying is that the people running these events don't suck at their jobs."
of course, its easier not to actually look into the type of work that goes on in this area, routinely, for yourself, that would require looking up work by a plethora of agencies distributed throughout the globe. much easier to immediately put it down to a conspiracy. in fact i'm pretty sure most developed countries do this type of work as part of pandemic preparation. here's a reference to get you started (note DARPA contracts multiple private companies so this link is just to get you started, the full scale of their pandemic preparedness project is huge):
if you don't consider these things a routine part of pandemic preparedness, then you need to go back and read your own source, in the headline, it mentions an 'annual' exercise. this is just one of the higher profile exercises of this type. multiple such exercises per year, plus limited genera of viruses that pose a serious threat to humans, makes a finite number of combinations for such exercises and therefore high probability that relevant exercises have been done in the past few years when a new viral threat hits the news.
inform yourself before jumping to conclusions. and if you can't do that, then at least don't misrepresent what i've said when you're making these claims.
For something that keeps itself pretty well contained to Africa as well, just suddenly finding itself outside its usual catchment area.. it just makes it even more ridiculous.
