The Premeditated Global Collaboration of “Germ Games”?
In broader global health policy and political discourse, "germ games" or "pandemic games" also refer to crisis simulations - such as those discussed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health leaders - meant to test how governments respond to potential disease outbreaks
A repository of internal emails obtained from within the US National Institutes of Health has exposed years of strategic planning for future pandemics involving governments, foundations, international organizations, and pharmaceutical companies.
The documents, stretching back to at least 2016, show that Dr Francis Collins, Director of the NIH from 2009 to 2021, was at the center of these efforts.
In that role, he oversaw the allocation of the agency’s substantial research budget, which ran into tens of billions of dollars annually.
The emails reveal Collins working closely with the Gates Foundation, Welcome Trust, World Bank, World Economic Forum, the African Academy of Sciences, and major pharmaceutical companies to strengthen research infrastructure, regulatory readiness, and international coordination well before Covid appeared.
‘Germ Games’: NIH emails reveal the military strategy behind pandemic planning
“Behind closed doors at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2016, senior figures from the Gates Foundation and the World Bank proposed a new approach to pandemic preparedness: large-scale simulations modeled on military war games.
Newly obtained internal emails show how the idea — referred to as “Germ Games” — gained rapid momentum and drew in the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
A potential land mine
On January 10, 2016, as then-NIH Director Francis Collins prepared to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, he emailed an advance copy of his schedule to Anthony Fauci, one of his closest advisers.
One session, in particular, caught his attention.
“This Davos session sounds like a potential land mine,” Collins wrote.”
From: Collins, Francis (NIH/OD) [E]
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016, 5:29 PM
To: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] Cc: Eiss, Robert (NIH/FIC) [E]; Glass, Roger (NIH/FIC) [E]; Handley, Gray (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Subject: FW: Confirming Dr Collins participation in Vaccine Innovation meeting at Davos
HI Tony, See below and attached. This Davos session sounds like a potential land mine. I am mindful of the caveats in your e-mail
from last Friday AM. The agenda describes discussion of a proposal from Wellcome Trust, BMGF, and the Norwegian government? Is that likely to
be the model proposed in the NEJM essay? Did BMGF really buy in to that?
If I am to help SMB with this session, I will need to acquire some additional content information about how BARDA operates
- I confess that I've never quite understood those details.
Advice would be appreciated.
FC
The meeting, titled “Vaccine Innovation for Pandemic Preparedness,” brought together executives from GSK, Merck and Johnson & Johnson, along with representatives from the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
According to Collins’ report to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, the pharmaceutical companies were blunt about the conditions for their participation - they could not commit to rapidly developing vaccines for every future outbreak unless governments first resolved who would pay and how liability would be handled.
The companies said they were willing to contribute their vaccine platforms but would not share their commercial intellectual property.
Collins described the emerging proposal as “very sketchy” and warned that it raised serious questions about governance, funding and strategy. He cautioned against any plan that would undermine existing US programs.
The birth of “Germ Games”
“A separate session on preparing for future pandemics proved even more consequential. Chaired by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the discussion included Bill Gates.
Gates argued that the world was poorly prepared for a fast-spreading respiratory virus and that more sophisticated simulations could strengthen planning around logistics, communications, quarantine measures, public messaging and vaccine deployment.
Kim seized on the idea. According to Collins’ email, the World Bank president proposed creating “Germ Games” — exercises explicitly modeled on military war games — persuade G20 leaders to invest in pandemic preparedness and avoid complacency once Ebola memories faded.
Kim suggested “tapping into the expertise” of the US Department of Defense, whose war games experience tested command structures, decision-making and crisis response under pressure.
He publicly called on the NIH, the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and the Welcome Trust to develop the concept together, saying he would “find funds for this.”
Writing to Fauci afterwards, Collins acknowledged that the proposal had quickly gained influential backing. With both the Gates Foundation and the World Bank endorsing the initiative, he wrote, it would be “hard to stop this effort now.”
Collins admitted that large-scale pandemic simulations fell outside his expertise and asked Fauci for his assessment.”
Fauci’s reply
“Fauci responded that the US government already had considerable experience running simulated “bioterror attacks.”
He explained that the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security had conducted extensive “Table Top” exercises—simulated crisis scenarios in which officials rehearsed responses to biological threats, including aerosolized anthrax, multi-release smallpox and influenza pandemics.
“This may not be ‘exactly’ what [Bill] Gates, [Jeremy] Farrar and [Jim Yong] Kim were referring to,” Fauci wrote, “but it would be pretty close.”
He also suggested involving Nicole Lurie, then Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, noting her previous experience at the RAND Corporation.
Dr. MaryAnne Demasi has provide an excellent breakdown.
MaryAnne Demasi, PhD. Shared the below on X -
'Germ Games': NIH emails reveal the military strategy behind pandemic planning Newly obtained internal emails reveal that at
in 2016, globalists proposed "Germ Games"—pandemic simulations modeled on military war games.
https://x.com/maryannedemasi/status/2071335580949168147?s=46
The history, and practice of simulated of ‘Germ Games’ has been taking place for a VERY long time.
Provided is an example below -
At “germ games” held in Washington, DC, pandemic planners get a look at the threat posed by synthetic biology.
In June 2001, a group of government officials and journalists play-acted their way through a “germ game,” a fictional scenario in which the (then obscure) terrorist group called Al Qaeda sets off an outbreak of smallpox in US shopping malls.
The exercise, called Dark Winter, proved influential in shaping US “pandemic preparedness” policy, promoting the notion that this country, and others, should stockpile vaccines, provide extra hospital beds, and make emergency plans in the event of a global disease outbreak that might never materialize. Dark Winter, since reenacted in schools and statehouses, was effective in part because it proved prescient. Within three months of the exercise the U.S. was hit by the 9/11 attacks and anthrax-laden letters were circulating in the US postal system (though these were allegedly sent by an American military scientist, not foreign terrorists).
Politicians got the message. Today, the US stockpiles enough smallpox vaccine for every man, woman, and child, and large supplies of anthrax drugs, too.
Much has changed since 2001, though, so on Tuesday, May 15, some of the original participants in Dark Winter returned for a new pandemic exercise, CladeX, held at a fancy hotel in Washington, DC. At 9 a.m., foreboding music filled a ballroom, and the lights dimmed around a U-shaped table where a fictional cabinet had taken seats. The players included former Senate leader Tom Daschle (reprising that role), onetime Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Julie Gerberding, and Tara O’Toole, the creator of the Dark Winter scenario.
The group’s task: respond to a fictional outbreak. A virus is killing dozens in Frankfurt, Germany, and spreading in Venezuela, though that country’s president denies the problem. It’s moving fast and has a high mortality rate. The leaders immediately must decide whether to shut airports (they don’t) and give assistance to Venezuela (they do), and how to calm the public as fake news spreads paranoia on social media.
It’s fiction, but America just got wiped out by a man-made terror germ
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