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The 2008 report by the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) warned that this new disease could be "extremely contagious" and that there would be "no adequate treatment" available at the time of its spread, leading to worldwide pandemic. It suggested that highly pathogenic strains of bird flu like H5NI were "likely candidates," but a "coronavirus or other influenza strains" could have the same potential.
It said this outbreak would begin in an area of high population density and where humans and animals often live in close quarters, giving China as a specific example. The Covid-19 virus is said to have originated at a wet market in Wuhan, where live and dead animals are sold and where hygiene standards are poor.
When the virus began to spread, a "slow public health response" would hinder the realization that a highly dangerous pathogen was spreading. "Weeks might pass" before laboratory results could confirm its existence, and by then clusters would be appearing in the population. Asymptomatic travelers could then carry the disease to other continents resulting in "waves" of new cases internationally. In the most extreme scenario "tens to hundreds of millions" of Americans could become ill.
Comment: Predictions and justifications were circulated under pretext: as in not revealing the true purpose behind such a threat - nor the real scope, reason and breadth of the post-pandemic plan to further effect global control.
We also don't know how many took the scenario as a real threat and were 'prevented' from implementing sound strategies.
An investigation? Why not several; there are plenty of questions to go around and few answers piling up.
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