Knowledge Fight dissects Alex Jones’ January 5, 2025 rant on HMPV—a respiratory virus he falsely ties to globalist depopulation schemes via debunked claims like Event 201 (2019) and Catastrophic Contagion (2022). He blames Bill Gates, the WHO, and China’s alleged cover-up while recycling Falun Gong-linked conspiracy theories, ignoring mainstream reports of seasonal flu fluctuations. Jones also peddles unproven vaccine potency variations, SV40 cancer virus claims, and a bizarre royal depopulation plot involving Prince Philip, all dismissed as sloppy, fear-mongering nonsense. The episode underscores how his narratives collapse under scrutiny, revealing a pattern of baseless speculation masquerading as investigative journalism. [Automatically generated summary]
Real quick, he's playing a clip of Peter Hotez talking about how once Trump gets into office, the health problems that exist now and have always existed will continue to exist.
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We're very thankful for...
Oh, we skipped a break this hour, that's right.
So I'm going to go ahead and start getting into it now.
All right.
Let's just start here.
Overhead shot, please.
This is Event 201, John Hopkins Center for Health Security, the exact same organization and group sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN, the CIA, the Rockefeller Foundation.
And you go look at Event 201 at the centerforhealthsecurity.org, run by the UN and Bill Gates, and you can read how it's funded by the CIA and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, all the groups I just listed.
And in this document, it talks about the meeting October 18th, actually for three days, 2019, and they produced all these newscasts and drills that I'll show you in a moment, where it basically mirrored exactly what happened with COVID, respiratory, out of Asia, all of it.
And it was all, we later learned they had COVID on the shelf years before, it was man-made, all of it.
They had the so-called vaccine already ready, already patented.
That is Event 201.
That's the battle plan for the rollout, but you don't give everybody months before a battle plan of what you're going to do and say we're doing it.
People say, well, then you're the one behind it.
You say, oh, it's just a drill that just so happens to perfectly match what's happening.
It was a one-day, three-and-a-half-hour tabletop scenario exercise.
We've talked about this many times in the past, so I don't want to get too lost in the weeds, but it's important to understand that Alex doesn't know anything about Event 201 past the name of it and vague stories that he remembers telling about it in the past.
Event 201 involved a fictitious disease that was modeled largely on SARS, which is why it bears some similarities to SARS-CoV-2.
Alex is entirely wrong about the details here, though, as the exercise didn't mirror what happened with COVID.
For instance, in the Event 201 exercise, the virus emerges from zoonotic infection from a pig in Brazil, not from China.
Also, the virus kills 65 million people in the first 18 months of the scenario pandemic, which is way higher than the World Health Organization's real-world number of just over 7 million deaths in the entire span of COVID up to present day.
Further, a vaccine is considered impossible in the purposes of Event 201, so it's a very minor issue in the scenario exercise.
Given that Alex thinks that the globalists' whole plan was to inject everyone with a bioweapon that destroys their immune system and all that other stuff that he's totally proved, you would think that that would be a major factor in Event 201, but it's really more about corporate government cooperation in response to a potential outbreak.
So it doesn't mirror the real world at all.
Alex's stories kind of mirror his stories because they're the same thing.
Alex can't be trusted to understand the basic facts about stories like this, let alone some kind of grand conspiracy they reveal.
That is a good thing to bring up because this is something that's going to exist for all of us in like 20 years, 30 years, something like that.
Whenever we're past all of the idiots like Alex and the far right wing who are doing the COVID denialism stuff, people will look back and remember we as a species created a disease-killing vaccine in like...
Record speed.
Like, crazy fast.
In a speed that we could never have even dreamt possible just 20 years ago.
You know, like, there was definitely a world-shattering achievement that occurred that nobody can really handle right now because there's too many insane people around.
Yeah, and I think that's the other part that history is going to have a really difficult time encapsulating, is that, like, we as a species created this and also...
So again, this is something we've covered extensively in the past, but as a short refresher, SPARS 2025-2028 refers to a scenario exercise that was also carried out by Johns Hopkins.
Alex is pretty much wrong about everything regarding this exercise, but I'm glad that he and Flynn were able to get a lot of views.
The SPAR scenario was meant specifically to explore messaging within a public health crisis.
So it was a series of communication challenges that were supposed to help participants understand the pitfalls that they should try to avoid in stressful situations like a public health crisis.
The team created a world characterized by highly fragmented information communities and highly available information technology, which they titled, quote, the Echo Chamber.
It was meant to maximize the idea that people were more connected than ever, but also more divided than ever, and how do you deal with getting important information out to people in that situation?
The scenario did not closely mirror what happened in the real world during COVID.
For instance, the virus in the scenario was called SPARS, or St. Paul Acute Respiratory Syndrome, because the first cases were identified in St. Paul from people who had recently traveled to the Philippines.
Alex is pointing to tweets that were mocked up in the exercise and pretending that they just changed the name of the virus out to COVID, which is a dead giveaway of their master plan.
The problem is that some of the tweets that he's talking about are made-up tweets from the CDC saying, quote, Holiday travel plans?
Stop spars by washing your hands and avoiding public places if you feel sick.
Another is, quote, practice good hygiene during your Thanksgiving travels.
Bring home leftovers, not spars.
These are very generic tweets the exercise planners came up with to include in the scenario.
And if a passing similarity between these tweets and things the CDC would eventually tweet means anything to you, you're grasping at straws.
And that's pathetic.
These two scenario exercises prove literally nothing for Alex, but they're accepted as proof of this grand conspiracy in Infowars world.
But this is all just laying groundwork, my man, because Alex and his crack team have uncovered something new.
Because if you see something like this and you don't really understand the full context of what scenario exercises are and how they're used in a lot of corporate settings, I think that it has the ability to look really like, oh, what are they doing?
This is weird.
And the names are supposed to be fun for people who work in these dorky environments.
I think there's a fundamental thing that people are not understanding about the divide, which is it's not like the smart people versus the dumb people.
It is the people who are resentful of you for doing things and not making it clear to me.
I get that you're talking smart at me.
And it's like, that's America.
Eventually you're going to run into the half of America that gets mad at you for talking smart at them.
Again, you have to roll it out to your system and to your administrators and to the media executives a few weeks before you go live.
What did Hotez say a month ago?
When Trump, day one, has a new pandemic crashing down on him and he throws out 11 things but doesn't tell you the thing that they put in their real battle plan a month and a half before in October.
He and his amazing staff have uncovered another scenario exercise from Johns Hopkins, which is on their...
This one's called Catastrophic Contagion, and the timing is just too perfect.
As Alex points out, it happened on October 23rd, and just after that you see Peter Hotez go on TV and say that Trump is going to have a public health crisis to deal with.
He's talking about Catastrophic Contagion, the plan that's in effect because he just got the marching orders from that scenario exercise.
Right.
So there are two critical problems here.
The first is that Peter Hotez wasn't one of the participants in the catastrophic contagion exercise.
Wow.
Unfortunately, none of the people who are actually in it are established villains in Alex's comic book storyline, so he had to fudge that detail.
Alex didn't even check the year on this scenario exercise because he got excited about how, if it was from 2024, it would match up really well with Hotez's TV interviews, and that could really scare the audience.
The storyline is the primary piece of information here, and reality is bent to conform to the narrative.
The story is that the globalists do these scenario exercises in order to wargame their battle plans, and then the minions like Hotez come out and make veiled threats in the media, which only Alex is smart enough to decode.
Catastrophic Contagion, as a scenario exercise, doesn't really help make that case if it happened in 2022, but it creates the appearance of a timeline if it happened in 2024.
When Alex sees this catastrophic contagion, he instinctually fits into how the story could be told.
It would be convenient for the narrative if this exercise was right before Hotez's interviews, so that's the reality that's presented.
And it is only because we are trapped beneath a million miles of shit and mud that we don't even feel shock anymore at things that should be very shocking.
Because they don't want other independent media to investigate it and to spotlight it and to look at it.
Or anybody, an independent medical group, to go get samples of it, to put it under an electron microscope or in a CRISPR system to see if it's man-made like COVID.
They want to hit you flat-footed.
So they got to wait to the last minute and give their orders and roll out their operations.
And 14 days before...
Trump being inaugurated is, in the time frame of politics and the world, the blink of an eye, it's a sucker punch.
They're going to have some new virus up their sleeve.
At the Bill Gates CIA drill at John Hopkins, that was the last drill that was the launch operation in late 2019, the virus they sent out of China, a corona respiratory, was exactly what it was.
So the 2019 exercise that Alex is talking about is event 201, which didn't feature a respiratory virus out of China.
It was a coronavirus that appeared in Brazil.
If you want to say that this document is suspicious because it's so closely mirrors what ended up happening in the real world, then you need to be accurate about the details that you claim are similar.
When you fuck up really basic details, it makes it hard to take anything seriously.
Yeah, it is like the most weaponized version of the knowing just enough to hurt yourself kind of situation.
Like, people know just enough about viruses and such.
From our educations throughout, you know, our lives that we only know enough to cause ourselves problems by not understanding what the fuck is actually going on.
You know, like, we understand that there is a word called coronavirus.
I get that that's a strain of viruses or whatever.
But, like, I still don't really know what that is.
So when Alex says, like, no one got excited about the bird flu or monkeypox, it's important to recognize that what he's talking about is his audience didn't get scared enough about those things.
So when he says that, like, Bill Gates is going to have to roll out another thing, he's saying this didn't really push things the way COVID did, and we're going to need something bigger.
That's why he tried to do the Ebola thing last year, and what's behind his, uh, there's something big coming.
So you want to go to the catastrophic contagion page that's duplicated at John Hopkins, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Center for Health Security, and you've got to read the public stuff they put out.
On catastrophic contagion.
The John Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the WHO and the Bill of Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted catastrophic contagion.
He's cold reading this information about Catastrophic Contagion, and Alex accidentally sees that the exercise took place in 2022.
Immediately, he knows that he needs to wallpaper over this, because the whole narrative is built on the idea that these exercises are the battle plan that was done just before launching the attack.
They did Event 201 in 2019, then released COVID.
If catastrophic contagion didn't just happen, then the entire structure of this conspiracy storyline crumbles.
Alex understands that, and the preservation of the storyline is more important than truth or reality, so you can hear the gears turning and him decide to run with the idea that they do catastrophic contagion every year.
He thinks this saves the ship, because now, it could have happened just before Peter Hotez's interview, but in reality, this actually creates more problems for Alex.
These scenario exercises are supposed to be the planning for attacks that are about to be launched, but if they do this every year...
Where were the attacks that happened in 2022 or 2023?
He's encountering fundamental problems with trying to make it make sense.
His instinct is to bluff his way through and patch up these plot holes as he goes, but in this case, he's covering up this hole by making a much larger hole in the process.
It doesn't matter, though, because he doesn't believe any of this to begin with.
It's just the most effective way he's found to keep the audience scared these days, so this is the ball and how it's gonna roll.
Now, one of the things that I think is really super funny is that you said, like, When did they do it?
Human metanumonia virus, HMPV, is a respiratory virus that can cause pneumonia.
This means a viral infection in the lungs.
HMPV causes a mild infection similar to a cold with symptoms including fever, cough, runny, blocked nose, headache, and tiredness.
To some case, symptoms can progress to bronchitis and pneumonia.
HMPV spreads through respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing, contact with an infectious person's secretions, or contact with contaminated surfaces.
HMPV is most commonly in young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems.
Like those that took the COVID vaccine, they admit on record in all the studies, does a race immune system.
There is no treatment for HMPV, but a health care provider can help manage the symptoms.
Treatment options are oxygen therapy, IV fluids, corticotypic steroids, which they would deny everybody the steroids and stuff with COVID.
But they tell us in...
The drill that they vary the names of, but they always put in a catastrophic contagion.
So I guess so far, the similarity that Alex has pointed out between the cases of HMPV in China and the fictional disease from the catastrophic contagion exercise is that they both affect children.
Children are susceptible to a lot of illnesses, and in order to draw this connection, Alex has had to lie about the catastrophic contagion being an annual exercise so it can be forced into an imaginary timeline.
Catastrophic Contagion was an exercise primarily targeted at leadership response to an emerging outbreak.
The SPARS one was about media messaging and mass communication.
Event 201 was about public-private cooperation in a crisis.
And this one is mostly about what the best engagement would be between international groups and national governments during a pandemic.
The exercise involved a fictional enterovirus that is popped up in the area of what is in the real world, Guyana and Suriname.
But they're called Nueva Esperanza and San Rafael for the purposes of keeping it abstract in the exercise.
One of the early questions that gets asked is about the point in the outbreak when the cases appear to be restricted to these two countries and it looks like containment might be possible.
In that situation, should the WHO recommend that they close schools?
Should they recommend restricting travel?
They weren't debating mandating anything, but whether or not it's their place to make recommendations for things that are national level leaders' responsibility to address.
So this is the kind of territory that was being explored within the context of this exercise.
Bill Gates, John Hopkins, and WHO conduct another pandemic simulation with deadlier virus that targets children.
The John Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Health Organization and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conducted another pandemic tabletop exercise in Brussels, Belgium.
And again, they continue to have these meetings and hype this.
And then magically, right on time, just like COVID was to stop the Trump agenda and bring in the globalist agenda, it happens again.
Go read the whole article.
What is HMPV, new outbreak in China, explained?
Many are concerned about the HMPV, formerly known as human metanemonia virus, have reports of new virus outbreak in China.
The agency admits there's a bunch of illnesses and deaths, but they say, don't worry, it's fine, though they have martial law provisions in place.
The basic building blocks of this story are supposed to be that in 2019, they did Event 201, which was a planning session for the COVID release.
After that exercise, Fauci came out and said that Trump would be faced with a mysterious illness, and then COVID showed up to derail the Trump agenda.
According to Alex, history is repeating.
In October 2024, they did Catastrophic Contagion, which is the planning session for HMPV.
After that exercise, Hotez came out and said that Trump would face a mystery illness in his new term and now this HMPV shows up in China just in time to derail the Trump agenda again.
That's all good and well, but the exercise happened two years prior, and Alex has had to lie to say that it's an annual thing in order to just avoid admitting that he's making all of this up.
Alex's audience has such low standards that he can get away with this level of bullshit.
Fundamental details are being misreported in such a sloppy and self-disproving way that you really can't pay attention to what he's doing without realizing that he's just trying to whip up hysteria.
He has no information or helpful insights to pass along to the audience, he's just got a predetermined conclusion that he's supporting.
And, like, I think the thing that's interesting about this is...
It's so exactly what you'd expect from a liar, which is that you have an introductory argument, which is HMPV is COVID all over again, and I know it because of this catastrophic contagion.
That's your reveal.
And then as you're going through it, you realize, ah, shit, I don't have all the details about the catastrophic contagion thing.
Yeah, I mean, like, Event 201 and this catastrophic contagion are both done by Johns Hopkins, or hosted by them, but they explore different aspects of pandemic preparedness.
Alex was saying that the media had downplayed the HMPV outbreak, but now is saying it's a super serious thing, and yet when I look at the media, I'm seeing them explain that it's not that big of a deal.
That's weird, and I don't know how to make this fit.
Here is from an article titled, quote, should you be worried about an HMPV outbreak in China dated January 7th, two days after Alex's episode.
Quote, there have been signs of heightened public vigilance in China with more passengers spotted wearing masks on public transit.
However, there do not appear to be widespread fears about an HMPV outbreak in the country.
When the Strait Times visited two local hospitals in Beijing on January 6th, there was a steady flow of patients, but no long queues and facilities were not overwhelmed.
Visitors there told ST that same day consultations were definitely possible.
So that's the source that he actually said.
Sure.
Yeah.
here is that Alex is mixing up sources and headlines.
The headline that he actually says is, quote, China reports new virus outbreak hospitals overwhelmed.
That's from a blog called Strat News Global, which has a name that is suspiciously similar to legitimate science outlet Stat News.
I'm not super familiar with Strat News Global or their reputation, but I'll read you a little section from the article that Alex is talking about.
I'll let you assess things for yourself.
Quote, despite no official confirmation, social media posts suggested that China has declared a state of emergency.
An ex-handle known as SARS-CoV-2 wrote, quote, China declares state of emergency as epidemic overwhelms hospitals and crematoriums.
So to track this...
Alex is reporting on an article from Strat News Global, which uses as its primary source an anonymous Twitter account which has no proof of the claim that it's making.
If you go to this Twitter account and their post, their source seems to be coming from a Chinese blog aggregator site called abulowong.com.
This site appears to just post links from articles written by another outlet called Apollo News Network, and I have literally no idea who they are or what they're all about.
However, an article that they posted on the same day as the one that's the root of Alex's reporting is titled, quote, going to bed early can cure all diseases.
The article that the anonymous account's tweet was based on was published on December 27th.
So Alex's argument about the timeline of covering up the outbreak, then taking it seriously, it doesn't even work if you just...
Believe everything.
Plus, I was poking around the Apollo news coverage of the outbreak, and I noticed a little bit of a trend.
They appear to have quotes from a bunch of primary sources, like random civilians who have seen or experienced something.
In some cases, they're cited as, quote, Miss Lee, a resident of Xinjiang, or, quote, Mr. Yang from Zizhou County.
However, the quotes from these people, they show up in multiple articles, and if you poke around enough, you'll find that these are not originally sourced quotes.
The blog is just taking comments from the Epoch Times and then re-reporting them.
Great.
It appears that this blog has a very anti-CCP stance, and it may be involved with the Falun Gong folk.
Their editorial line seems to be that the Chinese government is covering up this outbreak, and they end one of their articles saying, quote, In August 2024, Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic was mainly aimed at the Communist Party, and those who blindly followed the Communist Party defended the Communist Party and worked for the Communist Party.
Many people have died, including many young people.
Master Li also warned the world, stay away from the evil Communist Party and do not stand with the evil party.
A lot of their articles also have a citation to the New Tang Dynasty television outlet, which is a media company started and run by Falun Gong followers.
So it took a little while to untangle, but you can see a pretty clear path of sourcing here.
There's a Chinese blog that's dubious in terms of its content who appears to be an arm of the Falun Gong movement that just recycles Epoch Times stuff.
They posted an article about hospitals being overrun on December 27th.
Mm-hmm.
which Alex is now exaggerating out to being this whole of the media.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Alex gets away with this kind of bullshit because it takes a while to track this kind of stuff down and figure out what he's talking about.
And he knows damn well that no one in his audience has any interest in doing that.
They just want to hear what he says and feel something accordingly.
They're not going to go and look and find, like, where did this claim come from?
But when I say that, I don't mean that there is no such thing as HMPV or that they aren't seeing more cases of it than they have in a past year or whatever.
And now most people that took it have had their immune system damaged or pretty much removed.
And then you bring in the next virus.
And then regular viruses are killing people at record levels because of it.
And it's all run by Bill Gates, who says he wants to depopulate you, and his dad was the head of Planned Parenthood and the head of the World Eugenics Society.
And the real name of his foundation is the World Population Control Foundation.
Look at the founding documents, 1999, of that new foundation.
It's not Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
You read the corporate filing documents, it's called the World Population Control Foundation.
And it says its goals to reduce world population, which he said.
So a guy that wants less people wants you to take a shot so there's more people.
Because I'm an intellectual and I'm also controlled.
I make my decisions coldly.
My body, my lower limbic system is enraged right now.
Because I'm under attack.
And my children are under attack.
And my family's under attack.
And it looks bad.
It's all because the public has Stockholm Syndrome.
I can't believe this is happening to them.
If they try to declare here, which they say they're doing, and if Trump listens to his administration, if there's any bad guys in there, and the hospitals get the policy directors from the CDC not to give people the steroids and the IVs and the antibiotics, because you say, well, antibiotics for a virus?
It's the bacteria that carry in the virus.
And once you get cell damage from the first viral load...
It causes tissue damage, then bacteria invade that.
And then you've got to knock out the bacteria because during the viral bloom, they're what chews holes in everything so the viruses can get through the defenses and it weighs down the white blood cells having to take out the bacteria so they can't deal with the viruses.
I don't want to go into all of it, but it's fascinating.
Also, that Gates Foundation stuff is just something Alex half-remembered seeing in a tweet, and he's pretending that he knows it from researching their founding documents, because he's a fucking fraud.
He's fundamentally misunderstanding how microbes work, too.
Like, bacteria are alive, and they can reproduce on their own, whereas viruses are just packets of nucleic acid that require a cell to infect, which allows them to then reproduce.
It's possible for a virus to have bacteria as a host.
It's actually something that's been extensively studied, they're called bacteriophages, and like, this is not, I just, it's overwhelmingly dumb, what he's saying.
When I was young and dumb, I'd go to the doctor and say, man, I got a viral infection.
They do the test.
I wouldn't just take antibiotics.
I want a test.
Sure, well, just give me antibiotics right now.
And I'd say, ah, that's not for a virus.
And then I got older and read all the literature, and it's like, no, you take an antibiotic with a viral infection because that's how the virus gets in.
It's already in and replicated, but it doesn't matter.
The point is they denied people antibiotics during COVID.
People need steroids immediately with whatever this stuff already hitting on the East Coast.
It's bad.
I've talked to the people involved.
Hospitals are full.
Death, you name it.
And we've been hit by lots of this stuff before.
It killed my uncle and other cooked up things 10 years ago.
I was there in Palestine.
Biggest town near where our family ranch is at.
He was like Popeye, tough as an ox.
67. My mom's older brother.
William Forrest Hammond.
Great.
Best guy I ever knew.
John Wayne, for real.
And the hospital was just full of dead bodies.
They were just wheeling dead people out.
It was like Day of the Dead.
And they said, we've never seen anything like it.
And it's all over the country.
And the callers were calling into the death.
But back then, the media, the globals were testing, not telling people.
See, and this is weird, because data from the CDC shows that HMPV rates are actually much higher in the Midwestern states, like Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
This isn't a new virus, and it's not unexpected that there would be cases of it.
People should obviously take health precautions just in general and be responsible, but from all the available information, it doesn't look like this is any cause for panic outside of just being...
Careful.
Alex is going pretty hard at this pretty fast, and I think that he's going to leave himself room where he needs to backpedal.
We've talked about Alex's uncle and how much Alex is exploiting his memory in the past, so I don't particularly care to get into it too deeply, but I was looking into this a little bit, and I found an article that I wanted to share with you.
This is from the Allentown Reader from February 1st, 1898.
So there's not SV40 contamination in COVID vaccines.
That was something that was true of some early polio vaccines, but it stopped in 1963.
It's conceivable that Alex's grandmother would have been the right age to get an early polio vaccine, and she very well may have gotten one that had an SV40 contamination, but even in the unlikely case that that's true, no doctor would have told her that her polio vaccine gave her polio.
Vaccine derived polio is a real thing, but it doesn't work like this in the real world.
However, it does work like this in an anti-vaxxer's imagination, which is where this story comes from.
Alex has created a personal anecdote to be the emotional decoration that he uses to make these idiotic beliefs seem more resonant and convincing to the audience.
We've talked about it before, but the only way that pieces of this story could be true are if Alex's grandmother was a victim of a very specific fuck-up, where Cutter Laboratory sent out an incorrectly prepared batch of the polio vaccine.
There were sizable numbers of people who got polio that way, but the number of people who developed a condition that would involve an iron lung, I think it was like less than 200 people total.
I think it's very unlikely that Alex's grandmother is one of those people, but if that's the case, it's very sad, but also doesn't prove that vaccines don't work.
It's just a safety standard issue and the laboratory fucked up.
You know, sometimes when you read about the past...
And then you hear something that's so patently insane that you're like, there's no way that that's real.
Like the guy who goes around in the past giving people lobotomies.
Just like in a van.
Just like, hey, I'll chop your brain out.
You know, that kind of thing.
And you go, there's no way that somebody would go up to that man whose job is to lie to you and say that whipping a wire around inside your skull is going to make you feel better.
But man...
I bet they did.
I bet they did happily.
I bet they were like, oh yeah, see, because viruses, because your white blood cells, they get weighed down.
And if you look at the signature of how they're hyping it, what they're doing in China, that it's in the documents, that this is what they were predicting would show up.
It fits all the other patterns for COVID and then other covert events they've done.
And so I believe with near certainty that this is the big one.
And that doesn't mean it's really that deadly.
We don't know yet.
Or it could be totally made up.
But generally, they make something synthetic so only they can patent it.
And then they've also got the shot they're going to give you so that the vaccine looks like it's meant to do this because it's countering that, but it really does something completely different.
So it follows the exact pattern of COVID from who's behind it, how they're pre-programming it, how they're rolling it out.
And they may release something else or two or three or four things.
And Alex's premise for this episode, the foundation that he's building a house on, is this thing he didn't check, which is the date on catastrophic contagion.
So I realized as I was listening to this dumb bullshit that basically what you're hearing is Alex just kind of having a power fantasy of what he would do if he were in charge.
And so their main weapon is a new virus, and in the fear and the new poison shot, and if I was them, I would expect after COVID didn't work and backfired, still killed a lot of people, and they got a lot of power up front, but it backfired, boomerang, blew back.
If I was them, I'd release something far deadlier the next time.
And I was saying that four or five years ago, saying this is going to fail, they'll do something worse.
And then Bill Gates, about a year after that, was like, oh, the next thing will be a lot worse.
And everything I've been saying, I got clits of.
I just haven't played a lot of the clips because I've already played these damn things a hundred times.
But I do think there's something really funny about the way you can tell he's trying to adjust to new information.
Like, there is an ideal version of the narrative that he starts with, and then it gets eroded by the awareness of effect, and he has to start adjusting and accommodating as the episode goes on.