It was revealed in a series of emails obtained from Dr Anthony Fauci under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that on Saturday February 1, 2020 he attended a “confidential” teleconference set up by Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust (a WHO partner) with 11 other invited participants including Dr Fauci and Dr Francis Collins, but notably absent/excluded were President Trump’s other coronavirus task force members, in particular CDC director Dr Redfield – who’s view didn’t follow their “narrative”.

This “emergency” teleconference appears to have been sparked because of the “revelation” from Kristian Andersen et al, that the virus genome was “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory”, thus it could potentially be engineered and of lab origin. [1]

By March 5, 2023 in a congressional memorandum, it stated that “[i]t was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 [techically SARS-CoV-2] may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated”

Three days later, on February 4, 2020, “four participants of the conference call authored a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin) and …[p]rior to final publication in Nature Medicine, the paper was sent to Dr. Fauci for editing and approval.” The preprint was published Feb 16, 2020.

SA announces first two cases of COVID-19 in couple returning from Wuhan.

As the coronavirus spreads around the world countries begin closing borders and restricting travel from February 1, 2020, except for their own citizens coming home.  Mandatory 14 days quarantine was required upon entry in many countries. [1, 2, 3]

On February 1, 2020 Australia’s “National Security Committee of Cabinet (NSC) had decided, based on health advice from the CMO and AHPPC, to introduce strict travel restrictions on the entry to Australia of foreign nationals who were, on that date, in mainland China.” [5]

On March 20, 2020 President Trump baned non-essential travel between US and Mexico. [4]

On February 2, 2020 Dutch State Mines (DSM) subsidiary DSM Jiangshan Pharmaceutical (Jiangsu) Co. tweeted that they had shipped  50 tons of vitamin C to China’s Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located. This shipment provided 50 million one gram doses of immune boosting Vitamin C which was given to hospitalised patients and hospital workers. [1, 4]

On February 24, 2020 the Chinese CDC published their novel coronavirus data for up to February 11, 2020, revealing, prior to vitamin C’s distribution,  5% of COVID-19 cases were “critical” [ICU] with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 2.4%. [3, 5]  It was reported on February 19, 2020 that cases in Hubei had declined.

A randomised clinical trail using high dose vitamin C in ICU patient in Wuhan began early February 2020.  But following this shipment of vitamin C “new admissions into Intensive Care Units (ICUs) plummeted“, and as a result the study failed to enrol the needed 140 patients to be statistically powered.  Nevertheless, the trial reported patients who received IV vitamin C (IVC) were 60% more likely to survive and had statistically improved markers, revealing a potential benefit for incorporating IVC into hospital treatments. [2]

Yet, in early 2020 any social media talk about potential benefits of vitamin C was censored, YouTube deleted content as they said it went against WHO guidelines!

On February 2, 2020, a paper by Indian authors Pradhan et al, titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag” was published and then withdrawn within a week.

“The scientific paper claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus had four “inserts” in its spike protein that were similar to the ones found in HIV, and concluded that these are unlikely to occur naturally in a coronavirus, suggesting an “unconventional evolution” of the virus that warrants further investigation.” [1, 2]

This paper was discussed by Dr Fauci as revealed in his emails released under Freedom of Information.

The Diamond Princess cruise ship with 2666 passengers and 1045 crew on board, with an average age of 66 years, on February 3, 2020 was held in quarantine on the ship in Japan’s Yokohama Port due to one passenger testing positive for COVID-19 on February 1, 2020, after they disembarked the ship in Hong Kong on January 25, 2020 and 5 days later develped a fever.  [1, 11]

The Diamond Princess left Yokohama on January 20, 2020 for a 14-day cruise to China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, then back to Japan. [8]

On February 20, 2020 it was reported that 2 Japanese passengers in their 80’s had died and 620 were “infected” or PCR positive for COVID-19. The WHO tweeted “Of all cases outside #China, over 1/2 are among passengers on the #DiamondPrincess cruise ship.” [4, 5, 6]

Japan’s National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) moved into action and assisted with infection control and patient care. [9]

The Australian government on Feb. 20, 2020 started to “evacuate” over 200 Australians who were onboard – which helped bring the virus into the country! The passengers had already spent 14 days quarantined on board the ship, followed by another 14 days at the Howard Springs quarantine facility close to Darwin.  Several fell ill on return to Australia. [7]  The same story for around 400 American passengers.

News of this Diamond Princess spread all over the world and the death rate based on unreliable data, added impetus for shutting down the world! [2]  But the news that “some 83% (82.7% – 83.9%) of the passengers never got the disease at all” and ” slightly less than half the passengers (48.6% ± 2.0%) who got the disease showed NO symptoms” was not broadcast wide.

In total, only 14 people of the 3711 on board were reported to have died due to the novel virus, half after they had left the ship, with a median age over 80 years.  There “are differing opinions as to how many of these deaths should be attributed to Covid. Except for one person in their late 60s, all deaths occurred in those over 70.” Not one crew member died.  Three ill patients were given experimental remdesivir, on “compassionate” grounds and apparently survived.  The elderly passengers were forced to stay confined in their rooms for 14 days!  [3, 12]

The Diamond Princess was meant to be the “worse case scenario” of susceptible elderly in close quarters to those infected, but the data “arguably indicates that the severity may well have been even milder than generally believed, and clearly was of no danger to the non-elderly”

On February 5, 2020 President Donald Trump’s attempted impeachment ended in his acquittal following Senate impeachment trial.  The impeachment began September 24, 2019.

On February 7, 2020 the Australian Department of Health released its first Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019) [v1, v2] providing an overview of the National operational action plan, a living document guided the Australian governments “health response” to the pandemic. [1]

The document noted:

• “currently, there is no specific treatment (no vaccine and no antiviral) against the new virus.”  [This “health” body does not mention of boosting the immune system as a first line of defense!]
• that no previous “emerging” viruses had “sustained human to human transmission”.
• Up until then the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (the AHMPPI) was the key nationally agreed document to guide Australia’s pandemic response, this plan adapts AHMPPI for novel coronavirus.
• the pandemic response activities “should be implemented”  would “be selected by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), in consultation with relevant parties and on advice from expert bodies.”

The AHPPC is part of the Department of Health’s and is “key health sector coordination mechanism that provides advice to whole-of-government crisis committees”, they are part of the emergency response National Incident Centre (NIC) the focal body that inturn coordinates with the WHO.

AHPPC gave their first advice on January 29, 2020, a time which “AHPPC still believes that most infections are transmitted by people with symptomatic disease” but they took a “highly precautionary approach” by recommending people should isolate in their home for 14 days following exposure. [2]

Originally coined the National Incident Room, the health department established the National Incident Center (NIC) in November 2019 in response to a measles outbreak in Samoa, followed by the Black Summer bushfires across Australia in late 2019.  NIC are also responsible for undertaking the duties and responsibilities of Australia under the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), and thus the focal point for WHO communications as directed by the National Health Security Act (2007). The centre is staffed by a core of officers within the Department of Health, and draws on other government agencies. [3, 4, 5]

Statnews draws attention to the field of coronavirus research to be “small and modestly funded” and as the past two decades have proven is a “boom-and-bust” research area, as such coronavirus experts are minimal to few.

In addition, there are no drugs approved specifically to treat coronavirus infection, and the demand for funding and career focus is driven by the need.

A “declared” pandemic would “highlight” that immediate need, the “economics will follow the hype” said Peter Daszak in March 2015 workshop.  The hype is needed to sustain the research funding!

On February 11, 2020 the WHO announced that the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) had classified [5] the novel coronavirus (formally 2019-nCov) as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing the disease called Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). [1, 2, 3, 4]

On 11-12 February 2020, the WHO, in collaboration with the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response (GLOPID-R) – an international network of funders to facilitate coordination and information sharing, organized a Global Forum on research and innovation for COVID-19 (‘Global Research Forum’). [1]

Using the R&D Blueprint strategy as a framework at this forum world scientists assessed “the current level of knowledge about the new virus, agree on critical research questions that need to be answered urgently, and to find ways to work together to accelerate and fund priority research to curtail this outbreak and prepare for those in the future.”

From this the WHO SOLIDARITY trials emerged.

February 18, 2020 marks the date that the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), part of the US Department of Homeland Security, “began its hunt for disfavored speech about COVID-19” aka “misinformaiton”. “CISA defined misinformation to include accurate information that might lead people to engage in disfavored behaviors.”  That is true information that went against their narrative. [1, 2]

In the following months, “DHS asked four government-funded think tanks to flag “misinformation,” which was often simply political speech that Democrats didn’t like, and together with DHS urge social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to delete, suppress, or censor it in some other way. In 2020 and 2021, the four government contractors worked hand-in-glove with DHS and other government agencies to pressure social media platforms to engage in political censorship.” [1]