The Highwire with Del Bigtree - CDC’S MONKEYPOX MESS

Episode Date: June 20, 2022

The CDC has walked back it’s initial recommendation to mask for Monkeypox, which triggered a firestorm of criticism from the medical and scientific communities.#MonkeyPox #CDCAlert #MaskRecommendationBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Just a couple of weeks ago, you and Dr. Peter McCullough went over a pretty in-depth segment on monkeypox. And it looked like at the time when you were reporting on it, this thing was going to fizzle itself out. We probably were seeing the end of it. Well, take a look what the news is reporting just this week. All right. New concerns about the growing number of monkeypox cases across the country. This is the largest outbreak for the virus outside of Africa in decades. In the U.S., the CDC reporting 31.

confirm cases as Monday afternoon. The number of cases of monkey pox has continued to increase. It's almost a thousand people now with confirmed or suspected cases in more than two dozen countries around the world. New York State's Department of Health stating that mask can protect against monkey pox, as well as other viruses circulating in New York City. The agency urging travelers to avoid close contact with sick people, contact with dead or live wild animals such as small mammals, avoid

eating meat that comes from wild game. The CDC has raised its alert level for monkey pox to level two, recommending the travelers now wear masks. Dr. Mike, are you kidding me? This is for monkey pox. Yeah. I mean, we, you know, I remember when we covered this, I said, look, just watch the rhetoric.

It's a lot like coronavirus, right? It started out as a nothing burger. They all said it was a nothing burger. And slowly it started, it started, sort of started. growing on you and you know it just seems so foolhardy to be pushing with this but it is starting to ramp up the rhetoric a bit like coronavirus where are we at what are they saying now yeah and a lot of times you know as we investigate these things the headlines are kind of like tea leaves and that's where we start the investigation looking for these contradictions so just just as a reminder there's just a little

over a thousand confirmed and suspected monkeypox cases in 29 countries here Out of 7 million people, we currently have 1,000 cases. Okay, just let's all keep that perspective. That's right. And then the U.S. here, just about is a little over 30, 35 was the last time I checked from the CDC's official numbers. So just keep that perspective. Now, May 23rd, you know, just a couple of weeks ago,

we saw headlines from the WHO looking like this. W.HO says no evidence monkeypox virus has mutated. Okay, that's good news. But now we're seeing headlines like this. This is just recently two distinct. monkeypox variants found in the U.S. adding to outbreaks mystery. And it goes on to say in this article, experts are weighing various possible explanations for the quick growth of the current outbreaks. It could be that a few events simply gave the virus a chance to spread or monkeypox may have

evolved to get better at human human transmission. A third hypothesis is that the virus may have been spreading undetected for some time. So the research are pretty much saying we have no idea what's going on. And obviously they didn't mention the the COVID vaccine that's been, you know, showing through studies to bring down people's immune system, making them more susceptible to certain things like this. But now, as it said here in that news montage at the top, the CDC raise his monkey pox alert level to level two. The highest is level three, and that would kick off travel restrictions. But it says it recommends masks during travel. This is the big thing, this politicalization of this masking.

And just 24 hours later, they had to remove that recommendation from their website. This is the headline. It's kind of hilarious. CDC withdraws mask recommendation against monkeypox after backlash. It says here the recommendations drew strong backlash with many pointing out that since monkey pops spreads via close and prolonged contact, particularly sexual contact between homosexual men, masks would seem to be unnecessary and useless. And then there's a doctor. He's quoted saying, still trying to comprehend the CDC guidance to wear masks to slow the spread of monkeypox. Dr. David Samadhi wrote in response to news. the disease is not airborne at this moment, he added. What exactly are the masks supposed to do in that case? So we have this contradiction. So apparently they don't want you to mask for monkey pox,

but they are ramping up testing. This was the headline from CNN just recently, plans underway to ramp up monkeypox testing if outbreak grows quickly. Now, we've seen this before with the coronavirus. This was what they called for. And some great investigative work out of the national pulse. They did a lot of great work during the coronavirus outbreak. This is one of their headlines for the monkeypox testing. It says here, the infamous Wuhan lab recently assembled monkeypox strains using methods flag for creating contagious pathogens. And so let's look at this study here.

This study has nine Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers on it. And the study's titled, Efficient Assembly of Large Fragment of Monkeypox Virus Genome as a QPCR template using dual selection-based transformation association recombination. So basically what they're doing is they're trying to create a test. template for PCR testing, this rapid testing for monkeypox. And again, this was just a couple months before monkeypox became this international story in May. So the timing is very coincidental there. And again, coming out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, this is the same place

that was recombining bat coronaviruses with, that could infect humans, obviously early on from the coronavirus pandemic. A lot of questions going out of there. But one of the biggest really coincidental issues here. Let's really dig into this one is the tabletop exercise that happened in 2021. This was the title thing when I wants to read this, strengthening global systems to prevent and respond to high consequence biological threats. This was in 2021. Again, 2021. It was the Munich Security Conference. And now let's look at some of these exercise participants. This is right off the first couple pages here. We have the Dr. Draghi Akli. He's the global head of Johnson and Johnson's R&D and Jansen's R&D. We have Dr. Chris Elias. He is the president of Global Development Division of the Bill of Melinda Gates Foundation.

Then we have Sir Jeremy Farrar. His name was all over the early outbreak. This was Fauci's go-to guy. He was really quarterbacking a lot of this stuff behind the scenes. Then we even have Dr. George Gao. He's the director of the Chinese CDC, which is interesting because the China does not have monkeypox outbreak. So I don't know what he's doing in here. But we have all of these usual suspects, these usual organizations. And the biggest glaring issue, from this tabletop exercise, which is just like a strategic role-playing situation. This is sort of like the event 201 that Bill Gates had back prior to the COVID pandemic. This is one of those where they're all sort of gaming it out together and what-if scenarios.

Okay. Absolutely. Exactly. So let's take a look at their timeline in 2021 that they chose for this fictitious monkeypox outbreak. You can see here attack May 15th, 2022. This was in about a week of when it's actually happening. May 15th, 2022, they chose a monkeypox outbreak that would go international, infect the world. And you can see here the scenario, they're saying 83 countries, 70 million cases.

Thankfully, we're nowhere near that. But May 15th, 2022. So we had our team breakdown kind of like a behind, back of the napkin odds ratio for this. What were the odds that they could choose monkeypox? What were the odds that they chose an outbreak outside Africa? So here, predicting the virus, a one in 10 chance. Now, this is generous because there's 200. 19 viruses that are known to infect humans.

But, you know, a lot of the times when they talk bioterrorism, they use pox viruses. And so there's about 10 of those. So 1 in 10 chance there. Predicting the months, obviously, 1 in 12. Predicting the outbreaks outside of Africa, there's only been about three or four in the last 55 years. Then that one in three chance of this human to human transmission in multiple Western countries at the same time, it leads to an odd ratio of roughly 1 in 6,600 chance that

they chose May 15th of that month with monkey pox with global transmission so when you know when we challenge the coincidence we challenge the chance we have a lot of questions we have to ask ourselves here and as you said we were conservative i mean imagine where that number is if we say you picked out of one out of 241 viruses that could have done you know it could start a pandemic and we just said all right let's just stick with the poxas we just tried to keep it as contained as possible we're having some fun with the math actually digging in but a one in six 600 chance odds that you would choose the right month, the right week, the right virus, you know, and outside of Africa, which would have been super rare. And lo and behold, right to the date,

there it is, 1,6,600 chance of getting that right. Someone over there better buy a lottery ticket, man. These guys are good. Yes, right. Luckily, they're playing for our team. So to complicate matters, too, just to end this segment off, just to throw this out there, to complicate matters, Here's a headline that there's a complication from Pfizer's vaccines that's coming up. COVID vaccine, the side effect appearing up to one month after getting the Pfizer booster. This is called Ebola's pemphagoid. It's a blistering disease. And here's some pictures here from this.

This is a picture from the wrist. You have these bubbles. Now, this can pop up anywhere on the body. And these pictures might I add are generous. These things can go throughout the entire body and be extremely grotesque. Here's another picture on the hand. you have all these, you have all these outbreaks on the hand. But what does that look like?

It looks a little bit like monkeypox. So if I'm a doctor in the middle of this hype of this monkeypox outbreak, and I see people coming in with these bubbles, I mean, obviously they're going to test, but, you know, you're talking about suspected cases and confirmed cases. How many of these suspected cases are this, are this bullish pempigoid from the Pfizer vaccine and also a front vaccine? You know, that they're going to be using a PCR test to, figure it out, which, you know, if they don't get the cycles right on that, this whole thing

ramps up again, you, you know, basically can show that anyone has monkeypox if you run the PCR test 45 cycles. I mean, this, you know, I pray they're not stupid enough to go down this road because, I mean, I think a lot of people, a lot of people, and not just those, even those, perhaps, that really bought into the COVID vaccine. I think we've had enough. I think it'll be really obvious if they decide to start pushing this as some sort of out-of-control pandemic. But You know, I kind of thought that with COVID in the beginning. When we're looking at the death rates, we're really quite low, have always stayed very low.

It's amazing what they can do when they own the television and all that hype and all that stress and fear. The fear porn, as we call it, that they put out there. So, yeah. The difference this time around, the eyes of the world are really awake and watching, and there's so many good outlets reporting like we are to report on these things. Normally we should be avoiding a topic this stupid, but we want everyone's eyes on it, right?

Keep your eyes on it, folks. We've got to watch where this is going.