If you haven’t already, I recommend reading the following article by Eugyppius which I am reposting.
I have included additional information at the end with regard to Wellcome Trust Director, Sir Jeremy Farrar who colluded with Fauci et al and is a major member of the medical mafia orchestrating matters on the world stage.
The draft statement itself (at p. 67 here) is mostly unremarkable. It insists, in bold on the first page, that “Analysis of the virus genome sequences clearly demonstrates that the virus is not a laboratory construct or experimentally manipulated virus.” At least some of its authors, though, especially Edward Holmes, were willing to entertain the lab leak hypothesis, and the consequence was this paragraph considering the possibility that SARS-2 had been enhanced by repeated passage in cell cultures or animals:
Christian Drosten answered immediately that he thought he and his colleagues had already agreed “to challenge a certain theory, and if we could, drop it”:
From this we learn, first, that Drosten had been party to prior discussions among his colleagues, where they had discussed messaging strategies relating to “a certain theory”; and, second, that Drosten apparently had no real understanding of the reasoning behind or the case for laboratory origins, and this as late as 9 February.
Edward Holmes (who Farrar elsewhere says is leaning “60-40” for the laboratory origins of SARS-2) has to bring him up to date:
Among other things, it’s very interesting to see how eager all these virologists were for those fishy pangolin sequences, which Chinese scientists released just as discussions of laboratory origins were gaining ground.
There’s surely more lurking in this email dump, but I have (alas, alas) a conference coming up, and thereafter it’ll take me a few days to get through it.
I am adding to this some background information regarding Sir Jeremy Farrar which myself and others living in the UK in particular may find interesting.
On June 25, 2021, Whitney Webb published one of her excellent investigative reports titled, A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction regarding “the world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust’ which had “teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we allow it.”
I am reproducing here what Whitney wrote specifically about Farrar in the aforementioned article.
Jeremy Farrar, Pandemic Narrative Manager
While Dugan and Gabriel ostensibly lead the outfit, Wellcome Leap is the brainchild of Jeremy Farrar and Mike Ferguson, who serve as its directors. Farrar is the director of the Wellcome Trust itself, and Ferguson is deputy chair of the Trust’s board of governors. Farrar has been director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013 and has been actively involved in critical decision making at the highest level globally since the beginning of the COVID crisis. He is also an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum and cochaired the WEF’s Africa meeting in 2019.
Farrar’s Wellcome Trust is also a WEF strategic partner and cofounded the COVID Action Platform with the WEF. Farrar was more recently behind the creation of Wellcome’s COVID-Zero initiative, which is also tied to the WEF. Farrar has framed that initiative as “an opportunity for companies to advance the science which will eventually reduce business disruption.” Thus far it has convinced titans of finance, including Mastercard and Citadel, to invest millions in research and development at organizations favored by the Wellcome Trust.
Some of Wellcome’s controversial medical-research projects in Africa, as well as its ties to the UK eugenics movement, were explored in a December article published at Unlimited Hangout. That report also explores the intimate connections of Wellcome to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the use of which has now been restricted or banned in several countries. As mentioned in the introduction, the Wellcome Trust itself is the subject of an upcoming Unlimited Hangout investigation (Part 2).
Jeremy Farrar, who was born in Singapore in 1961, had previously been director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, beginning in 1998. During that time, he authored numerous epidemiological research papers. He claimed in a 2014 Financial Times article that his decision to move to Vietnam was due to his disdain for conference halls full of white men. Southeast Asia was obviously a much less regulated environment for someone in the medical-research industry wishing to indulge in groundbreaking research. Although based in Vietnam, Farrar was sent by Oxford to various locations around the globe to study epidemics happening in real time. In 2009, when swine flu was wreaking havoc in Mexico, Farrar jumped on a plane to dive right into the action, something he also did for subsequent global outbreaks of Ebola, MERS, and avian flu.
Over the past year, many questions have arisen regarding exactly how much power Farrar wields over global public health policy. Recently, the US president’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, was forced to release his emails and correspondence from March and April 2020 at the request of the Washington Post. The released emails reveal what appears to be a high-level conspiracy by some of the top medical authorities in the US to falsely claim that COVID-19 could only have been of zoonotic origin, despite indications to the contrary. The emails were heavily redacted as such emails usually are, supposedly to protect the information of the people involved, but the “(b)(6)” redactions also protect much of Jeremy Farrar’s input into these discussions.Chris Martenson, economic researcher and post-doctorate student of neurotoxicology and founder of Peak Prosperity, has had some insightful comments on the matter, including asking why such protection has been offered to Farrar given that he is the director of a “charitable trust.” Martenson went on to question why the Wellcome Trust was involved at all in these high-level discussions.
One Fauci email, dated February 25, 2020, and sent by Amelie Rioux of the WHO, stated that Jeremy Farrar’s official role at that time was “to act as the board’s focal point on the COVID-19 outbreak, to represent and advise the board on the science of the outbreak and the financing of the response.” Farrar had previously chaired the WHO’s Scientific Advisory Council. The emails also show the preparation, within a ten-day period, of the SARS-CoV-2 “‘origins” paper, which was entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” and was accepted for publication by Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020. The paper claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could only have come from natural origins as opposed to gain-of-function research, a claim once held as gospel in the mainstream but which has come under considerable scrutiny in recent weeks.
Shaping the presentation of an origin story for a virus of global significance is something Farrar has been involved with before. In 2004–5, it was reported that Farrar and his Vietnamese colleague Tran Tinh Hien, the vice director at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, were the first to identify the re-emergence of the avian flu (H5N1) in humans. Farrar has recounted the origin story on many occasions, stating: “It was a little girl. She caught it from a pet duck that had died and she’d dug up and reburied. She survived.” According to Farrar, this experience prompted him to found a global network in conjunction with the World Health Organization to “improve local responses to disease outbreaks.”
An article published by Rockefeller University Press’s Journal of Experimental Medicine in 2009 is dramatically titled, “Jeremy Farrar: When Disaster Strikes.” Farrar, when referring to the H5N1 origin story stated: “The WHO people—and this is not a criticism—decided it was unlikely that the child had SARS or avian influenza. They left, but Professor Hien stayed behind to talk with the child and her mum. The girl admitted that she had been quite sad in the previous days with the death of her pet duck. The girl and her brother had fought over burying the duck and, because of this argument, she had gone back, dug up the duck, and reburied it—probably so her brother wouldn’t know where it was buried. With that history, Professor Hien phoned me at home and said he was worried about the child. He took some swabs from the child’s nose and throat and brought them back to the hospital. That night the laboratory ran tests on the samples, and they were positive for Influenza A.”
With Farrar now having been revealed as an instrumental part of the team that crafted the official story regarding the origins of SARS-CoV-2, his previous assertions about the origin of past epidemics should be scrutinized.
As the director of a “charitable trust,” Jeremy Farrar is almost completely unaccountable for his involvement in crafting controversial narratives related to the COVID crisis. He continues to be at the forefront of the global response to COVID, in part by launching the Wellcome Leap Fund for “unconventional projects, funded at scale” as an overt attempt to create a global and “charitable” version of DARPA.Indeed, Farrar, in conceiving Wellcome Leap, has positioned himself to be just as, if not more, instrumental in building the foundation for the post-COVID era as he was in building the foundation for the COVID crisis itself. This is significant as Wellcome Leap CEO Regina Dugan has labeled COVID-19 this generation’s “Sputnik moment” that will launch a new age of “health innovation,” much like the launching of Sputnik started a global technological “space age.” Wellcome Leap fully intends to lead the pack.
This is an excerpt from the publisher’s overview for Farrar’s book, Spike with Anjana Ahuja published 17 March 2022,
As head of the Wellcome Trust, Jeremy Farrar was one of the first people in the world to hear about a mysterious new disease in China - and to learn it could readily spread between people. A member of the SAGE emergency committee, Farrar was a key figure in both the UK and the World Health Organization at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic amid great uncertainty, fast-moving situations and missed opportunities. Spike is his widely acclaimed inside story. His account casts light on the UK government's claims to be 'following the science' and is informed not just by Farrar's views but by interviews with other top scientists and political figures.
As an aside, I find it interesting that Farrar’s “spike” image of course mirrors Michael Mann’s infamous hockey stick Climate Gate graph. It’s a theme amongst the nogoodniks. They do like to use scary graphs to manipulate the populace. It’s been done time and time again.
Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar is a distinguished epidemiologist, a member of the Sage scientific committee, the director of the Wellcome Trust health research charity and an influential government adviser. He is also the most hawkish of lockdown hawks, and he has written a book with journalist Anjana Ahuja, called Spike. It is a revealing read.
Spike is basically about Farrar himself: how he saw it all coming, how he personally forced the Chinese government to release the genetic sequence of the Covid-19 virus that allowed scientists to develop a vaccine, how he warned the world of imminent doom, how the Government could have saved lives by treasuring his words more, and how he risked assassination by the Chinese (‘If anything happens to me, this is what you need to know’, he told friends).
The talk is all of wars, battle plans, and people heading for precipices. All this is a bit melodramatic and self-obsessed for my taste. but Farrar is a distinguished scientist who means well. He is terrifyingly sincere and really does have the interest of mankind at heart. Therein lies the problem.
There are few more obsessive fanatics than the technocrat who is convinced that he is reordering an imperfect world for its own good.
If Spike is largely about its author, it also tells us much about those who have been in charge of our lives through Covid-19.
Farrar represents most of what has gone wrong. His main target is the British Government. But he actually agrees with nearly everything they have done.
Farrar’s complaint is that they did not do it quickly or brutally enough when he suggested it, and stopped doing it before he gave them the all-clear. [Cont’d]
Does Farrar really mean well?
According to the most interesting article by Paula Jardine reproduced below, in January 2020, Farrar was instrumental in helping “to get the great Covid game in motion” with “a declaration by the WHO of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” as was required to implement the totalitarian lockdowns and the rest of the inhumane restrictions.
IF EVERY movement has a manifesto, then Spike vs The People: The Inside Story is a twenty-first century Mein Kampf meriting the same notoriety and opprobrium.
The book, published last year, is Dr Jeremy Farrar’s insider account of the coronavirus pandemic, ghost-written by the Financial Times science writer Anjana Ahuja. Farrar, is a clinical scientist, infectious disease expert, director of the Wellcome Trust, co-founder of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI), and one-time Sage adviser to the Government. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year’s Honours just as China was advising the World Health Organisation (WHO) that amongst its population of 1.4billion it had detected 44 pneumonia patients, 11 of whom were seriously ill.
Sir Jeremy is a British General waging America’s War on Microbes which has supplanted the War on Terror, unnoticed and unannounced. Spike is his call to arms. ‘There is no peacetime any more,’ says Farrar. ‘Preparedness and readiness is a constant and needs to be part of the fabric of society.’ (p233)
Covid-19 is to be the catalyst for a re-ordered world. ‘My preference would be to streamline the architecture of global health with the WHO in the middle of the web, convening, advising, guiding and providing an emergency response . . . Crumbs from the table will not cut it in the era of pandemics.’
A $100billion pandemic war chest for the WHO to spend as it sees fit would suffice, dwarfing the sums spent on Covid-19. With CEPI becoming the WHO’s research and development arm for vaccines and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, or the Global Fund procuring and delivering these ‘countermeasures’, private pharmaceutical interests would be well looked after.
‘Just as you don’t wait until war has broken out to assemble and train an army, the radar must function continually,’ says Farrar, envisioning an ‘advanced pathogen surveillance network’ to identify variants and new pathogens. It was launched in 2021 as the Global Pandemic Radar.
A combination of ‘smart’ real-time data, artificial intelligence and ‘non-traditional sources of information like rumours on social media’ could help identify threats needing countermeasures, he explains. Farrar’s conscience is untroubled by the intrusiveness of the surveillance required for the biothreat track and trace systems for microbes, or for sick people for that matter.
Suitably forewarned, he hopes, new genetic ‘plug and play’ vaccines could be injected into human arms in as little as a month. The United Nations Immunization Agenda 2030, published in April 2020, calls for 500 deployments of new or under-used vaccines by the end of the decade.
A new legally binding Pandemic Treaty is still under discussion and a WHO director general would be given greater freedom to act independently. Farrar fails to acknowledge the obvious risk that this system facilitates the creation of captive markets for the pharmaceutical companies. The world has already seen Covid-19 vaccine passes being used to compel people to submit to vaccination in order to participate in society.
Overseeing this new global health system would be a ‘truly independent monitoring board’, speaking truth to power and reporting directly to the United Nations Security Council or alternatively a new Global Health Threats Council. A prototype, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), co-convened in 2018 by the director general of the WHO and the president of the World Bank, arrived in advance of the pandemic. Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Farrar’s old friend Dr George Gao, the former head of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control, sat on its board. Farrar is currently its interim co-chair.
The story Farrar is selling in Spike is that of an earnest scientist struggling to save a gravely imperilled United Kingdom, and indeed the world, from a dangerous new virus in the face of political indifference and an ignorant and misguided Health Department. In detailing his quest to save humanity from viruses, an altogether different picture of Sir Jeremy emerges.
In January 2020, to get the great Covid game in motion a declaration by the WHO of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) was needed. Farrar tried to help by passing information suggesting early evidence of human-to-human transmission, an indicator used to trigger PHEICs, to Dr Marion Koopmans, a member of the Emergency Committee that must make the recommendation to the director general.
‘A declaration gets things moving, unlocks funds, galvanises leaders – ultimately it saves lives,’ says Farrar.
While the PHEIC was still a work in progress, the GPMB met on January 27 2020 to rally the global community to commit resources and take action against the novel coronavirus. It knew the playbook, having presciently issued a report in September 2019 warning of the theoretical risk of a new high-impact respiratory virus that could spread asymptomatically. Among the ‘key informants’ for this report were Farrar, Koopmans and Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, the UK’s deputy chief medical officer. It was written by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health which hosted the pandemic tabletop Event 201 the following month.
Efforts to secure a PHEIC succeeded only at the third attempt on January 30. CEPI then issued an ‘urgent funding call’ for $2billion to finance its Covid vaccine portfolio.
Sir Jeremy was on advance manoeuvres on the home front in January, contacting both the UK chief medical officer Dr Chris Whitty and the chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance. He recalls that Whitty was mindful of the backlash against Dame Sally Davies, the CMO during the 2009 swine flu response and was wary of overreacting, while Vallance was more deferential.
‘Patrick took our worries seriously because he knows my background in emerging infections. He knew I would not overplay something that was not worth worrying about. There was no human immunity to this new pathogen,’ writes Sir Jeremy.
Vallance organised a ‘precautionary’ Sage meeting for January 22, 2020, prior to a Cobra meeting on the 24th, apparently in the expectation of a PHEIC being declared at the first time of asking. Sir Jeremy became an unpaid and ungagged adviser. The narrative framed for Sage was of a novel virus of animal origin which caused an unusual disease because it had a wide spectrum of severity and humans had no immunity to it.
The day after the PHEIC declaration, the UK’s first two Covid-19 patients, newly returned from Wuhan, were hospitalised in Newcastle. Both recovered after mild illness.
Sir Jeremy missed most Sage meetings in February. The ‘back channel’ through which he kept tabs on it were the modellers, Professor Neil Ferguson, director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, and Professor John Edmunds.
Following a three-week absence, Sir Jeremy returned to Sage on February 25, when a paper modelling the impact of closing schools, home isolation, quarantining entire households and social distancing was discussed. Sir Jeremy told the meeting about a ‘tearful call’ he’d received from an unnamed contact at Medicins Sans Frontiers (MFS) Italia, the charity appointed to help manage Italy’s Covid outbreak on February 12, who told him that the Italian healthcare system was collapsing around her.
February 25 is the day Dominic Cummings said ‘very smart people’ started coming to him saying ‘America is completely screwing this up. You should be really aggressive. Don’t listen to all these people saying that there’s no alternative to this. I personally am starting to take preparations. I’m buying things. We’re going to have to lockdown, etc, etc.’ (Cummings’s Parliamentary testimony)
What is evident from his account of the month leading up to the UK lockdown that Sir Jeremy subscribes to the view that advisers advise and ministers co-operate. Concern over the damage to the economy was, he says, ‘misguided’ when lives needed to be saved.
The UK Coronavirus Action Plan (CAP), based on existing government contingency planning for epidemics, was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the two co-chairs of Sage, Dr Chris Whitty and Dr Patrick Vallance, on March 3. Cobra, to whom Sage provides advice, signed it off but it displeased Sir Jeremy. ‘The government sprang a surprise,’ he says.
Professor Edmunds appeared on Channel 4 News after the CAP announcement saying, ‘If we’re right, indications for this virus are that this could be a very serious incident. Much more serious than we’ve had for many, many years.’ He was shaking his head from side to side as he spoke, contradicting himself with his body language. (timestamp 20:20) Other more stringent measures would be needed in the weeks to come, he suggested.
Sir Jeremy defends Dominic Cummings against Boris Johnson’s charge that he manipulated Sage. He should know. Credit where credit is due, it was Sir Jeremy doing the manipulating of Cummings.
‘He devised his own deliberate behavioural strategy in Sage meetings, which was to look political advisers directly in the eye while repeating the phrase, “we are talking about hundreds of thousands of deaths”. He just wanted a reaction, an acknowledgement, that those in power understood what was coming,’ writes Sir Jeremy.
Cummings did his due diligence, seeking advice from outside experts who confirmed the modelling. Modelling is the new statistics. You can prove anything with modelling, depending on the inputs and underlying assumptions.
The pressure tactics worked. ‘Something must have percolated through, however Number 10 advisers Ben Warner and Dominic Cummings showed signs of increasing unease at the Sage meetings they attended. Patrick Vallance was becoming anxious too,’ says Sir Jeremy.
Some gaps in Sir Jeremy’s account require filling in. Cummings recalled Ben Warner told him on March 7, ‘It seems to me this [CAP] plan could easily be mad. It could be extremely destructive’, and suggested pulling together a Plan B.
CEPI’s chief executive Dr Richard Hatchett, appearing on Channel 4 News following the announcement, said: ‘Completely dispassionately, without elevating the temperature or speaking hyperbolically, this is the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career and that includes Ebola, it includes MERS, it includes SARS. It’s frightening because of a combination of infectiousness and a lethality that is many times higher than flu.’ (timestamp 18 min)
The GPMP began calling on the G7 and G20 to find $8billion. On March 14, two days before a scheduled G7 Covid-19 fundraising teleconference, Sir Jeremy emailed Whitty and Vallance. ‘I felt action was needed within 24 hours, basically lockdown, plus all the other measures that had been modelled, like Italy and other European countries,’ he told them, implying it would be very brave to continue with Plan A.
Cummings is not the Machiavelli of this story, but in the end he was the one primed to deliver the ‘very courageous speech’ to the Prime Minister that resulted in the lockdown. According to Sir Jeremy, Cummings told Johnson that if he didn’t impose a lockdown, the NHS would collapse, he’d kill half a million people, that there wasn’t even a plan to bury all the dead, and that ‘in the chaos the whole grip of government might collapse and all sorts of other terrible consequences’.
The day after the lockdown began, Sir Jeremy wrote to his Wellcome colleagues that ‘the UK Covid-19 policy finally aligned with global efforts’. The UK government announced an additional £210million in funding for CEPI.
Dr Hatchett called Covid a watershed that would lead to a very different world. The re-ordered world he, Farrar and their associates want is no utopia. It is an outline for supranational biosecurity fascism and the infrastructure required for it is now in place. As Spike shows, some smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed people orchestrated a policy coup to realise this dark future. It is they who imperil humanity, not the microbes. This nightmare vision needs to be staked through the heart.
We must rid this planet of the dark actors involved with the all encompassing totalitarian agenda of control over every aspect of our lives. This is #NotOurFuture.
Enlightening work about what was going on behind closed doors. Explains a lot and helps understand how what happened, happened. Hopefully knowledge is power!
Very good work by Eugy. ✔ Thank you for the repost! Farrar also participated in the "A Spreading Plague" simulation event of a biological warfare attack held February 2019 in Munich security conference. (according to Wikispooks).
Rixey also presented slides from the Feb 1, 2020 meeting wherein participants saw the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and the implication lab of origin....
upon which they decided on the "Bat-Pangolin Orgy" story.
Enlightening work about what was going on behind closed doors. Explains a lot and helps understand how what happened, happened. Hopefully knowledge is power!
Very good work by Eugy. ✔ Thank you for the repost! Farrar also participated in the "A Spreading Plague" simulation event of a biological warfare attack held February 2019 in Munich security conference. (according to Wikispooks).
Rixey also presented slides from the Feb 1, 2020 meeting wherein participants saw the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and the implication lab of origin....
upon which they decided on the "Bat-Pangolin Orgy" story.