0:00:00 - 0:00:22 So I want to make a video about bio weapons. I saw a news article today where the former CDC director Robert Redfield who kind of looks like he should be on a container of oatmeal. Um He's had the following. I'm obviously most worried about bird flu right now. It takes five amino acid changes for it 0:00:22 - 0:00:43 to be effectively infecting humans. That's a pretty heavy species barrier, but this virus is already 26 mammal species as you most recently saw cattle. But in the laboratory, I could make it highly infectious for humans in just months. That's the real threat. That's the real biosecurity threat that these 0:00:43 - 0:01:07 university labs are doing bio experiments that are intentionally modifying viruses. And I think bird flu is going to be the cause of the great pandemic where they're teaching these viruses to be more infectious for humans. So I said a lot about um pandemics, about diseases. Uh I've, I've used the word 0:01:06 - 0:01:32 plagues, I think over the last few years now, there's a lot to say about this and it falls into the category of a whole bunch of stuff that's out there that most people don't know about in 2014, there was an Ebola case, there was an outbreak in some parts of West Africa and one person from Liberia came 0:01:31 - 0:02:00 over and um on the plane and was diagnosed with Ebola in a hospital in Texas. At that time, I really thought that that was going to spread. And one of the reasons I thought that was because the scale of obvious ineptitude was mind boggling the way that that was handled was insanely irresponsible. And 0:01:59 - 0:02:23 this, in spite of the fact that there are whole institutions that exist allegedly to handle this sort of thing. So fast forward 10 years. And you tell me how your confidence in the US government has, has endured the last decade. And so what we saw with COVID again and again was just unbelievable levels 0:02:23 - 0:02:47 of stupidity from the people in charge, mixed with unbelievable levels of graft and dishonesty and hubris. Don't forget that one. So what is old Doctor Redford going on about red field going on about here? Well, there's this thing called gain of function research and to understand it, you have to take 0:02:46 - 0:03:11 a few steps back, you see from the dawn of this sort of bioweapons research, um which started a long time ago now in, in very sort of what would be seen today as primitive ways, the major governments in the world got seriously involved in this. It was a major part of the Cold War and each country was 0:03:11 - 0:03:33 trying to come up with diseases that would be more effective in killing the other country. But there's a big old problem with bioweapons and that is that if you release something and it's contagious, it's gonna get back to you. And so bio weapons research has always gone hand in hand with researching 0:03:32 - 0:03:57 the antidote to the disease. And so sometimes that's vaccines. Um, but there are other sorts of things that, that can be used in a really scary way. 11 of the, one of the directions of the research is to try at least research sponsored by countries that are less dynamic in their genetic background, like 0:03:57 - 0:04:23 China is to try to target parts of uh the genome that are not found in Asians. And that kind of research went on in South Africa allegedly for a while before apartheid ended. And there are some really interesting stories about that, whether they're true or not remain to be seen, but we'll probably never 0:04:23 - 0:04:49 know. Um But apparently there was some research done on how to target uh black Africans because the the white Africans, the South Africans uh were looking for nefarious ways to control the population. So anyway, whether that's true or not, who knows. But the point is that major countries were spending 0:04:48 - 0:05:14 a lot of money in bio weapons research. Well, in the United States that ended on the surface in 1969 when President Nixon uh executed an order that allegedly stopped all that sort of research uh with the US military. But here's what actually happened, what actually happened was they just kept doing it 0:05:13 - 0:05:40 but in much less public ways and um they also started migrating towards changing what they called the research so that they could continue to fund it. And so this is where gain of function research so called comes from on the surface. What they're doing is allowed by that treaty, that Bioweapons Convention 0:05:39 - 0:06:05 Treaty. It allows for pro quote prophylactic protective or other peaceful research. So what they're doing is they say that they're researching ways to come up with better vaccines for unexpected pandemics. What they're actually doing is creating vaccines for diseases that don't exist or versions of diseases 0:06:04 - 0:06:29 that don't exist and then creating the disease that their cure effects. Now, why would you want that? I already told you? Right. And none of this is any grand mystery. There are very famous people who talk openly about this, but it's one of these things that you probably have never heard of and with 0:06:29 - 0:00:00 the controls, the increasing controls on free speech online, things like this will be even less likely to come up on your radar as the world gets more complex. One of the things that's happening is it's getting harder and harder to even hear about things let alone separate the signal from the noise, 0:00:00 - 0:07:13 but I don't want to digress too much from the topic at hand, but this is a general problem and you're seeing it in real time folks, so little personal history. Approximately a year before COVID broke out, I was invited to take part in a very small invitation only roundtable of professionals. There were 0:07:13 - 0:07:38 a few people, just a few from the pharmaceutical industry and there were a whole bunch of people from the Department of Defense and related areas of the government and these speakers were not incidental employees. We had one person that reported to the Secretary of Defense directly, for example. So what 0:07:38 - 0:08:00 were we talking about at this round table? Well, it just so happens, we were talking about pandemic response now a year before COVID, no one really cared about this very much. The pharmaceutical people didn't care about it because they knew that it took about 10 years to come up with a safe and effective 0:08:00 - 0:08:30 um treatment for any novel pathogen. And they didn't see spending money on research and development for how to shorten that pipeline as a an attainable goal. And so the only reason people from Pharma were there was because for those folks, those very few folks, you know, two or three people, their companies 0:08:30 - 0:08:54 had allowed them to go at their own expense. That's the level of participation and interest that came from the Pharma folks. Um at this conference, this round table is, you know, not enough people to be called a conference. I happened to speak to a few people who worked in certain facilities in Maryland 0:08:54 - 0:09:14 for the army and their job was to do gain of function research. I was shocked having been in the military for 10 years and having a security clearance at the time I was an officer, I was shocked at how openly they were telling me things that I didn't think I'd be telling civilians if I were in their 0:09:14 - 0:09:33 position. And in that conversation, one of the things that they just sort of blurted out was because I said, I thought we bioweapons research was banned by the Geneva Convention and they laughed and they said every country is still doing it. It's a, it's an open secret. We're all doing it. And what we're 0:09:33 - 0:10:00 doing is we're trying to make forms of well known pathogens like Ebola and smallpox and anthrax more transmissible so that more people get it. You know. So 11 of the problems that's end of, end of paraphrased, quote, one of the problems with bioweapons research is it's easy to come up with a disease 0:09:59 - 0:10:24 . What's difficult or to tweak a disease to make it more dangerous. What's difficult is to tweak a disease so that it is lethal. But the infection period is long enough. The, the, the, the time when you're contagious is long enough that you infect everyone else before you're obviously sick. That's sort 0:10:24 - 0:10:46 of the, I don't want to say holy grail, but that's the target. That's very hard to get to and then of course they have to come up with some kind of treatment for it that's effective. Otherwise their people die. So that is going on and it's been going on for a very long time, right under everyone's noses 0:10:46 - 0:11:05 . And it's hilarious to me that people in the federal government, the Congress people pretend like they don't know that this is happening. E either they're complete morons which, you know, there's a lot of evidence on that question or uh they're complete liars, which there's a lot of evidence on that 0:11:05 - 0:11:30 . The story is not good anyway, it lands, right? So the, the, the general public is completely ignorant of all of these things. So why do I bring it up? There are games of chance that involve dice, right? And in some of these games, it's a good thing to get a certain role and usually those roles are 0:11:30 - 0:11:52 hard to get when you're dealing with dangerous things. It's kind of depending on the risk profile. You can have something catastrophic that could happen. You can have things to be very bad that could happen. You can have things that would be benign like, man, no one really noticed and sometimes there 0:11:52 - 0:12:07 might be something that could happen. That's good. So if you start a business, it's a very risky thing. If you win big, that's great. It's highly unlikely. The most likely outcome is you're gonna lose it all. And in the middle there are a bunch of possibilities where, I don't know, maybe you end up making 0:12:07 - 0:12:24 as much as you would have working for someone else. Right. And then that's sort of a neutral outcome. It's worse than neutral because there's a lot more work and stress and everything else. But you get the point, this is a risk profile. Well, with these bio weapons games that they're playing, here's 0:12:24 - 0:12:48 what's happening, there's a whole lot of bad things that could happen a lot. And instead of limiting these rolls of the dice to extremely controlled situations, what they're doing is as, as part of the way they're skirting this treaty. They're funding independent institutions, universities, for example 0:12:47 - 0:13:17 , or nonprofits like this one in Wuhan, they're funding these places to do research sometimes on the, on the really dangerous stuff, the high biosafety level diseases like Ebola, but often they're doing it on lower grade pathogens like bird flu, which has never really been a threat to humans. Here's 0:13:16 - 0:13:34 what happens when you in university research. They're typically, they're, especially in the, on the medical side. There are people who have been working there a very long time, they're professionals, they know what they're doing, but as part of the mandate they have to hire students stints and students 0:13:34 - 0:13:56 don't know what they're doing. That's why they're there is to learn to get the experience. And so it's not a BSL five lab, it's just a normal university lab. You know, students gonna walk in from one class, do their thing, leave, go do another thing. And so it's the appearance of low risk because, hey 0:13:56 - 0:14:17 , it's just bird flu, right. But the technology has gotten to the point where it's easy enough to change these things and hard enough to predict what the changes are going to do and easy enough for really bad things to happen. Like lab leaks that we're rolling the dice a lot on things on, on, on situations 0:14:16 - 0:14:47 where very bad things can happen. And the fact that nothing terrible has happened yet, it is a miracle. It's a miracle for which we should thank God every day because it's a really, really easy for something very bad to happen in this situation. Now, that's before you even think about the fact that covert 0:14:46 - 0:15:10 , covert portions of the US government have intentionally offshored the really dodgy stuff to, I think there were more than a dozen biolabs that were US funded in Ukraine. Now, whether or not that had anything to do with Russia invading, I guess, could be a question to ask. There's a whole bunch in China 0:15:10 - 0:15:37 too. So now you've got things that are off site without any oversight. You know, universities in the US, at least they're operating under uh uh oversight boards and, and things of that nature. But on the university side, though, another factor that's dangerous is the fact that there are so many Chinese 0:15:36 - 0:16:00 students. I am not saying ethnic Chinese students, I'm saying people from China national Chinese nationals and if something like 1% of them are actually employees of the Communist Party spies, which would be super conservative, then we're really playing with fire here, we really are. So all of that is 0:15:59 - 0:16:24 before you even think about the fact that with CRISPR which you can look up that technology, some average student with a biochem degree and not too impressive access to technology can roll the dice in privacy and do whatever the heck they want and who knows how that's gonna turn out. Now? It it probably 0:16:23 - 0:16:52 be too much of an overstatement to say that this is like giving nuclear warhead technology to random people, but it's not super far from that to understand the magnitude of the danger here. So is it inevitable that something bad is going to happen and that it's really going to be bad from this? From 0:16:51 - 0:00:00 what I've shared with you? No, no, there's still a probability that nothing will happen. Now when you're setting probabilities like this, you need a time frame. But regardless sure there's a case where no nothing bad happens that that could be the outcome. But when you stack up everything, you know, 0:00:00 - 0:17:35 the the decreasing common sense, the increasing hubris, the increasing motives that other countries have to to for bad things to happen in the United States, increasing evidence that key people in the US government are probably on the Chinese payroll in Canadian government apparently and on and on and 0:17:35 - 0:18:06 on. Maybe it's not too much of a stretch just from what we've talked about right here to say that this is closer to inevitable. And a question of when not, if so, yeah, another factor that's worth mentioning is that COVID in a way was an IQ test that something like 75% of people failed. And what it did 0:18:06 - 0:18:33 was it trained at least some of those people to push too far into the other extreme. And then some chunk of the roughly 25% that didn't fall for it have now been emboldened in ideas that maybe have limited utility. So what's gonna happen if for example, some very dangerous pathogen does get into the 0:18:33 - 0:18:56 wild and people start getting it and it has a very high lethality rate. No one is gonna trust the reports on that very far fewer than did on COVID. And so in the event that they tried to do something like tell people stay indoors, this is really going to hurt you. There are gonna be a whole bunch of 0:18:56 - 0:19:23 people that go out and fail the other side of the IQ test. So be wise and really think about this. And if you messed up on the first one, try to figure out what you can learn for next time, there is a nonzero chance that the next one will be very dangerous. Now, everything I've said here, none of it's 0:19:23 - 0:19:48 been prophecy or anything spiritual. I'm just giving you facts from foreign policy and domestic affairs and science. And once you mix all that stuff in, uh, it, it, it, it makes the picture more severe but I wanna keep this just to things, evidence that anybody can share. Be careful. It's, it's highly 0:19:48 - 0:19:53 likely that something bad is going to happen in terms of some kind of a plague.