On February 14, 2019, one day before the start of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) a tabletop biothreat simulation exercise took place in Munich, headed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) with private and partners from Georgetown University and the Center for Global Development. Senior leaders from around the world took part “aimed at identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events.” The event took place under the so-called “Chatham House Rule”, of secrecy. [1]
Rottmann-Großner, Germany’s Spahn’s sub-division head for “Health Security”, met key influential people from the international biosecurity scene such as BMGF Chris Elias, GAVI’s Tim Evans, Wellcome Trusts’ Jeremy Farrar and WEF’s Jeremy Jurgens just to name a few.
The tabletop exercise in Munich was apparently inspired by Bill Gates’ ‘prophecies‘ at 2017 MSC, In the 2019 final report “A Spreading Plague: Lessons and Recommendations for Responding to a Deliberate Biological Event“, Gates’ (germ war games) speech was quoted verbatim: “We ignore the link between health security and international security at our own peril.” [1]