Spurred on by the 2009 Influenza Pandemic and the Ebola and Zirka outbreaks, and with the mission of “Saving Lives. Protecting Americans,” [7] the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) headed by Dr Robert Kadlec [5, 6] “developed the Crimson Contagion 2019 Excercise Series” using a “non-traditional lead federal agency”.  The “Series” took place away from the public’s eye, throughout 2019. [1, 2, 4, 5]

“Crimson Contagion was a series of four simulations that involved 19 U.S. federal agencies, including intelligence and the military, as well as 12 different states and a host of private sector companies that simulated a devastating pandemic influenza outbreak that had originated in China….[which was led by] Robert Kadlec, who is a former lobbyist for military and intelligence contractors and a Bush-era homeland security “bioterrorism” advisor.” [3]

The Series of exercises and final report:

  • January 23-24, 2019 – Internal HHS Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise
  • April 10, 2019 – Chicago and Illinois Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise
  • May 14-15, 2019 – Crimson Contagion 2019 Federal Interagency Seminar
  • August 13-16, 2019 – Crimson Contagion 2019 Functional Exercise – the culminating event of the Series (still top secret)
  • October 2019 – HHS ASPR: Crimson Contagion 2019 Functional Exercise Draft After-Action Report – REF, PDF
  • December 9, 2019 – Kadlec “Crimson Contagion” After-Action Report released – Letter  [Pg 7]

The May forum was to discuss among other things “[h]ow the federal government will organize to manage a nationwide pandemic influenza response…”, the culminating event of the Series “focused on whole-of-community response and policy issues…[including]…priortizing of vaccines and other countermeasures; available (or potentially available) funding streams or mechanisms to fund the response…”  They used the term “social distancing”.

“The public knew nothing of this exercise until March 19, 2020, when the New York Times reported on it for the first time.” and the pandemic measures implemented by Birx [military] and Fauci fit in with Crimson Contagions plan “imagined”, including social distancing, remote working and lockdowns. [2]

Jeffery Tucker reports – WATCH