On May 15, 2018, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and held in Washington, DC, high level officials participated in a day-long pandemic tabletop exercise called Clade X. [1, 2]
“Drawing from actual events, Clade X identifies important policy issues and preparedness challenges that could be solved with sufficient political will and attention.”
A fictional elitist cult had financed the creation of a deadly virus called “Clade X ” in a bio-lab in Zurich, with the aim of reducing the global population. A Global pandemic resulted upon it’s fictitious release.
“In the end, the outcome was tragic: the most catastrophic pandemic in history with hundreds of millions of deaths, economic collapse and societal upheaval” — Clade X pandemic simulation (May, 2018)
The simulation concluded that the world wasn’t prepared for a global pandemic.