Shortly after, in october, Bill, Klaus and other usual suspects who ver actively involved in the covid pandemic response held a catastrophic pandemic exercise of a mock coronavirus. This set the tone for the draconian global response.

"For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019."