And Now… The Dreaded Leopard Pox

Germany currently holds the rotating presidency of the G7 group, so it was the responsibility of German Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach to host a meeting of G7 health ministers in Berlin, which has just concluded.

The meeting featured a pandemic simulation, with the conceit being that a new smallpox-like epidemic has suddenly emerged after someone was infected with the disease via a leopard bite.

Just in time for the monkeypox outbreak! What a coincidence, eh?

In the following video, Mr. Lauterbach reports on the leopard pox simulation. Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00   Realistic Scenario — G7 health ministers conduct smallpox pandemic simulation targeting young people via leopard bite.
00:04   Presently, we currently have more of a problem
00:08   with middle- and lower-income countries and vaccine uptake.
00:13   In order to deal concretely with how pandemics can be fought quickly,
00:18   we will also do a simulation.
00:23   It’s a very realistic exercise in which a smallpox pandemic develops from a leopard bite.
00:32   We, as health ministers, will then try, in four stages, to control this emerging smallpox pandemic,
00:39   which originates with the leopard bite. This scenario will be very realistic.
00:43   This scenario will have the particularity that young people are especially affected.
00:48   But why, of all things, is a pandemic being simulated which is caused by a leopard?
00:53   These are in fact realistic scenarios.
 

5 thoughts on “And Now… The Dreaded Leopard Pox

  1. I remember a german book series that was not well known.
    Basically there were human like aliens having been shipwrecked on Earth and they tried to build Earth into a superpower (they succeded with a big space fleet but they held back because they were a) looking at the galactic sphere because their empire was facing a frightening foe and b) they were not allowed to interfere with the government of the planet directly.). On the other hand we had the global elites that wanted to exploit everybody and everything and they knew that those aliens were suspectible to certain viruses. So, they unleashed every year a new virus, while the aliens fought back by releasing some sort of antidote virus into the water supply.
    Somehow I feel like I am in this book.

    In the end the aliens made contact with their homeplanet (and voila, it turned out that the people of earth were descended of a lost fleet of those aliens about 10.000 years earlier) and a fleet of the aliens combined with the fleet the aliens build on Mars made short work of the global elites.

    I hope that we see something like that here, too.

    • I wonder if the monkeypox treatment involves mRNA?
      In any case, I was vaccinated against Smallpox. I will take my chances.

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