Lock Step
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| Date | 2010 - Present |
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| Location | New York, USA |
| Participants | Judith Rodin, Peter Schwartz, Claudia Juech, Evan Michelson, Karl Brown, Robert Buckley, Lily Dorment, Brinda Ganguly, Veronica Olazabal, Gary Toenniessen, Laura Yousef, G.K. Bhat, Le Bach Duong, Aidan Eyakuze, Michael Free, Namrita Kapur, Paul Kukubo, Joseph Mureithi, Stewart Brand, Robert de Jongh, José Gomez-Marquez, Natalie Jeremijenko, Athar Osama, Isha Ray, Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Caroline Wagner, Andrew Blau, Tara Capsuto, Lynn Carruthers, Michael Costigan, Jenny Johnston, Barbara Kibbe, Brie Linkenhoker |
| Perpetrators | Rockefeller Foundation |
| Interest of | Harry Vox |
| Interests | pandemics |
| Description | A Rockefeller Foundation sponsored large scale simulation of a global pandemic followed by a world totalitarian outcome. Held October 2010 |
Lock Stepis one of four scenarios in a Rockefeller-foundation-funded exercise, a" world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback".[1]
Contents
Overview
"By 2025, people seemed to be growing weary of so much top-down control and letting leaders and authorities make choices for them." The feeling lingered that sooner or later, something would inevitably upset the neat order that the world’s governments had worked so hard to establish.
While having the feel of a second preferment out of 4 scenarios, where the scenario Clever Together is top choice, it is played out as a viable plan B.
The summary found it worth to blockquote the following from one of the players:
"It is possible to discipline and control some societies for some time, but not the whole world all the time"
– GK Bhat, TARU Leading Edge, India
Scenario
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain — originating from wild geese — was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults.
The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.
The pandemic blanketed the planet — though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of "strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders.
However, a few countries did fare better — China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a quicker post-pandemic recovery.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| COVID-19/Timeline | “the next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus . . . or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu. [...] Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10-15 years.” | Bill Gates | 17 February 2017 |
Known Participants
2 of the 33 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Judith Rodin | Attended the 2005 Bilderberg as President of the Rockefeller Foundation. Involved in the 2010 Lock Step event |
| Peter Schwartz | US futurist who attended the Lock Step event |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Rockefeller Study Envisages Future Dictatorship Controlled By Elite | Article | 16 July 2010 | Paul Joseph Watson |
