Pre-Pandemic Timeline
1980 to 1999

Chronological order of significant global data points in the years leading up to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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1998

September 4 1998

Goolge Inc. is born

The founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, first met in 1995 at Standford University. Initially working from their dorm rooms on a September 1996 research grant(s), they began to built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They initially called this search engine Backrub, then soon renamed it Google, initially hosted at Stanford University and then moved to google.com. It’s stated mission was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” [1, 2, 3, 7] Following a $100,000 grant in August 1998 from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Larry and Sergey incorporated Google on September 4, 1998 and moved into a garage! In less than a year, on June 7, 1999, they received equity funding totalling $25 million from major venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, and thus two new board members John Doerr and Michael Moritz respectively. The intent is for Google to be the “gold standard for search on the Internet.” In August 19, 2004 the company was legally forced to go public, making it’s shareholders very rich. But is this the full story behind the Google search-engine beginnings and intent? A 1993 Massive Digital Data Systems [MDDS] white paper states the Intelligence Community (IC) “is taking a proactive role in stimulating research in the efficient management of massive databases and ensuring that IC requirements can be incorporated or adapted into commercial products,” The IC held a briefing for scientists at a conference in May 23, 1995, and one in 1994. [4] “In 1995, one of the first and most promising [CI/NSF] MDDS grants went to a computer-science research team at Stanford University with a decade-long history of working with NSF and DARPA grants.” “The research by Brin and Page under these grants became the heart of Google: people using search functions to find precisely what they wanted inside a very large data set”. [5, 6] “Google is a search engine company whose growth has brought it to the first rank, and that is growing faster than any of its competitors. Its core technology…was partially supported by this grant.” The MDDS research effort has never been part of Google’s origin story, only this NSF “digital libraries” grant.

1999

January 25 1999

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is formed

According to web archives by January 25, 1999 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) had formed, during Bill’s Microsoft lawsuit. This new Gates Foundation allowed Gates to reposition his brand from computer geek monopolist to “philanthropist” of public health. [2]

The BMGF is an NGO that “gives back to global communities through increasing access to innovations in education, technology, and world health”, with a strong focus on reproductive health. [1]

NGO’s are great for redistributing money (grants, donations, seed funds etc), disguising ownership (public unaware), avoiding/lowering tax (increase profits) and influencing “Public Health” entities into promoting industries/products they have a vested interest.

NGO’s and foundations “donate” money to each other under the guise of philanthropy!

The BMGF is “the largest private philanthropic foundation in the world” historically giving the biggest financial contributions to WHO, GAVI and Planned Parenthood and much more.

Voluntary contributions made to the WHO are tied to specific donor-determined projects, giving donors (i.e. BMGF) power to steer how the funds are used.

Only 5% of BMGF funds are openly donated, the remaining 95 percent of it’s funds are invested through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (est. 2006), which in 2020 had a portfolio of over $31 billion. Up until 2018 the BMGF has donated in total US$36 billion, of which in 2017 this amounted to $4.78 billion.

The BMGF portfolio is 45.4% into Birkshire Hathaway (BH) stocks (Buffet’s company), of which BH then invest in Big Pharma companies, those making the vaccines promoted by “global health” agencies, to convince governments to help fund global Big Pharma “solutions”, which gives Gate’s a 20 to 1 return on “philanthropic” investment.

The trustees are B&M Gates, Warren Buffet and Democrat donors, who with manager Michael Larson, pledge money back to foundations with the aim of profiting. [1, 4, 5, 6]

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September 14 1999

WHO establishes the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS)

In order to respond promptly, efficiently and with scientific rigour to vaccine safety issues of potential global importance, the WHO established a Global Vaccine Safety Advisory Committee (GACVS) with the first meeting in Geneva on September 14-15, 1999 where it established its constitution, goals and functioning. GACVS’s Terms of Reference. [1, 2, 3, 4]

GACVS report their finding in the WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

Historical minutes for 1999-2013 looking at various vaccine issues such as thiomersal, aluminium adjuvants, pregnacy, lactation, adverse events such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and Bell palsy, an assortment of vaccines for diseases etc.

The same year, 1999, the WHO Director General established the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, to provide guidance on the work of WHO. [5]

September 25 1999

G20 – Group of Twenty is established

On September 25, 1999 in Washington, D.C., the finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) (which began 1986) leading industrialized nations announced the creation of the Group of Twenty (G20). “This new international forum of finance ministers and central bank governors represents 19 countries, the European Union and the Bretton Woods Institutions (the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank).” [1]

“The creation of the G-20 fulfilled the commitment by G-7 leaders at the June 1999 Summit at Köln “…to establish an informal mechanism for dialogue among systemically important countries within the framework of the Bretton Woods institutional system.” [2]

The G20 (Group of Twenty) is an international forum representing the worlds wealthiest countries and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union (EU) they consult on matters pertaining to the international financial system. The World Economic Forum (WEF) claim credit for this forum, which was born out of discussions of how the Asian financial crisis influences the global economy, held at Davos January 30, 1998. [3, 4]

At the G-7 meeting with finance ministers and central bank governors announced a proposal “to broaden the dialogue on key economic and financial policy issues among systemically significant economies and promote co-operation to achieve stable and sustainable world economic growth that benefits all.” They then invited their “counterparts from a number of systemically important countries from regions around the world”.

“The inaugural meeting of G-20 ministers and central bank governors took place on 15–16 December 1999 in Berlin, Germany.” [6, 5] Each year the “G20 presidency” rotates between members and is picked from different regions each year. [9]

The G20 is a powerful global body that represents 80% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 75% of global trade and 66% of the worlds population. [8]

On November 14–15, 2008, followed the 2008 financial crisis, the first annual G20 Summit was held in Washington. [7] G20 claim their purpose is to “strengthen economic growth” and “lay the foundation for reform to avoid future financial crises”!

November 1 1999

WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization is established

In 1999 the Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Director-General of the World Health Organization established the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization. “SAGE is the principal advisory group to WHO for vaccines and immunization. It is charged with advising WHO on overall global policies and strategies, ranging from vaccines and technology, research and development, to delivery of immunization and its linkages with other health interventions. SAGE is concerned not just with childhood vaccines and immunization, but all vaccine-preventable diseases.” [1, 5]

SAGE was the result of the merging of already established Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (also SAGE) [6] and the Global Advisory Group (which served the Expanded Program on Immunizations (EPI). [2]

SAGE is “an independent review team” which meets at least twice a year, and publish in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record, within 2 months of their meeting, their “conclusions and recommendations” for the world. SAGE establish working groups for each vaccine or a specific topic, then provide this information prior, for discussion by the full SAGE group. Priorities of work and meeting agendas are developed by the Group in consultation with WHO. The WHO ARCHIVE their a June 9-11, 1998 “Scientific” SAGE report with is prior to first meeting of the new “Strategic” SAGE held November 1-3, 1999.

WHO SAGE’s recommendations feeds into national immunization technical advisory groups, which in turn advise country-level immunization policy.

In accordance with its mandate, SAGE produce Vaccine Position Papers, these summary documents on each vaccine product influence vaccine policy world wide. As WHO website changes its harder to find content, here are links to vaccine PP to learn about each vaccine and see how the “position” changes over time – 2006, 2010, 2018, 2022, LIVE) [3, 4]

As Dr Brundtland announced, at 52nd WHA in 1999, the time marks the date that WHO begin “putting the spotlight back on immunization as one of the most cost-effective health interventions.”