Is just flat weird!!!
Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University’s (LSU’s) Health Sciences Center Shreveport, says he quickly struck up a friendly relationship with a Steven Meyers, who used a gisaid.org email address. The two often exchanged emails and talked on the phone, sometimes for hours, about the pandemic and data sharing—but also about music, beer, and Saturday Night Live. Meyers said he had previously worked at Time Warner and had changed jobs after his boss at that company, Peter Bogner, launched GISAID in 2008. Meyers was born in Germany and living in Santa Monica, California, just like Bogner, whom he would call “our big boss” and “the Big Cheese.”
Full article, HERE from Science.org
And this is before AIs get in the game…
Paranoia, or ‘separation’ from reality? I have no idea!
Remember Microsoft’s methodology throughout Bill Gates’ tenure as CEO: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Imagine if the same man, billionaire, on record as wanting to reduce the human population, applied the same methodology to the group of people (independent scientists) most likely to pose a threat about the realities of what drug companies are being asked to develop and deploy to achieve the goal of reducing the human population.
You’d set up a site that would attract key players {Embrace}, get them well hooked into and vested in that environment and attracting others in their field {Extend}, and then you’d identify the largest threats to your core goals, and ensure that they’re removed from your now very large playing field. Others remaining would be encouraged to play along with the organizational rules. They’d be gaslighted that what was happening isn’t really happening, and FOMO (fear of missing out) would also be in play. Those removed would be cast in a bad light for those remaining to encourage a lack of continued coordination and data sharing outside the organization, with a threat of being removed one’s self if that was done.
This would slowly be done to more and more until at some point the entire group would be disbanded {Extinguish} leaving the independent scientists frustrated, disillusioned, thinking they’d wasted years of their lives, and unwilling to trust any group association again.
Ag- Great point!