Exercise Pegasus
| Date | September 2025 - November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Location | England, UK |
| Interests | meningitis |
| Description | 2025 UK "pandemic" exercise practicing implementing lockdowns, censorship, crushing protests, forced face masking, mass culling of animals, food shortages, and presumably forced jabs. The guilt angle used to gain acceptance for these things was to claim the "virus" struck young people. |
| Participants | NHS England, UK Chief Medical Officer, UK Chief Nursing Officer, Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms, UK/Military |
| Perpetrators | Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health Security Agency |
Exercise Pegasus was a UK national-level pandemic exercise led by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and integration of the military. Its key purpose was to simulate implementing lockdowns under the pretext of a "pandemic" scenario, implementing lockdowns, censorship, crushing protests, forced face masking, mass culling of animals, and food shortages.[1] It - oddly - downplayed the forced "vaccine" part of the "solution". The guilt angle used to gain acceptance for these things was to claim the "virus" struck young people.
Own words
Exercise Pegasus was largest simulation of a pandemic in UK history, involving every government department, the devolved governments, representation from arms-length bodies, local resilience fora, and the engagement of businesses, academics, and external stakeholders.[2]
Objectives include "decision making processes for measures to contain, control or mitigate the impact of a pandemic including how relevant priority lessons from previous civil emergency exercises and outbreaks of disease have been embedded"; and "Test the strategic response to disinformation and misinformation".[3]
Ruth Anderson, said in the House of Lords that
All exercises should be about ensuring that we can adopt a whole-of-society approach to resilience. That includes making sure that all key stakeholders are involved. Conversations and engagement are ongoing, but, to reassure your Lordships' House, not only were 6,000 professionals mobilised in each phase of this exercise but we had 16 focus groups and four population surveys, and 2,000 members of the public were involved. That included specific focus groups with the voluntary sector and key businesses[4]
The Telegraph described it as:
Schools across the UK were locked down this autumn as part of a state drill to tackle the threat of a new deadly virus.
Exercise Pegasus, which concluded last month and involved all major government departments, was the biggest pandemic simulation exercise the country has ever held.
Those participating in the drill were told a novel enterovirus had broken out on a fictional Island in southeast Asia before spreading across the world.
Unlike Covid-19, which disproportionately affected older age groups, the new virus was most lethal in the young. The virus, EV-D68, was said to cause respiratory failure, brain swelling and – in rare cases – paralysis in infants, children and teenagers.
The spread of the imagined virus resulted in travel restrictions, school and business closures and mask wearing in the UK and around the world.
Ministers involved in the drill also had to 'wargame" dealing with fictional street protests over social distancing
[Participants were] told that, like Covid, the virus can be spread through respiratory aerosols and droplets and that "asymptomatic spread cannot be excluded".
In Phase 3, a national lockdown was declared and non-essential businesses ordered to close. There were also fears that the virus – thought to be carried in pigs – could also cause food shortages if UK herds became infected.[5]
Smaller feeding exercises
Before Pegasus began, 17 of the 38 Local Resilience Forums" conducted Exercise Solaris" in spring 2025. This tabletop exercise was designed to generate feedback for Pegasus scenario refinement. The results of Solaris were not published.[6]
In February 5-7, 2025, the government tested Operation Temperer through Exercise Octacine 2. Operation Temperer is a contingency plan enabling military deployment to support police forces in extreme national emergencies.[6]
On November 4-7, 2025—overlapping the final week of Exercise Pegasus - a separate Tier 1 CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive) national exercise was conducted at Papworth, Cambridgeshire, led by Eastern Region Counter Terrorism Policing and the Ministry of Defence, involving 600 personnel including military personnel, police, medical professionals, and rescue teams.[6]
On February 21, 2025, the Home Office published a tender on the government’s procurement portals for "Mass Fatality Resilience Capability Storage." The tender specifications sought suppliers to provide equipment capable of storing up to 700 deceased persons across three deployable tiers.[6]
Known Participants
2 of the 5 participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| NHS England | Oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of the NHS |
| UK/Military |
References
- ↑ https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/pandemic-preparedness-exercise-pegasus/
- ↑ https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-11-04/hcws1015
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20260319235502/https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/documents/s134197/Exercise%20Pegasus%20Updating%20Report%20-%20Summary%20of%20Exercise.pdf
- ↑ https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-01-15/debates/14C043C2-C149-4912-AB37-94A8C04599E9/ExercisePegasus2025
- ↑ https://archive.is/mnjPI#selection-4179.0-4191.255
- ↑ a b c d https://thomaster.substack.com/p/britains-hidden-plague-rehearsal
