In October 2019 Johns Hopkins began a symposium to highlight the lack of preparedness for an anticipated pandemic. Called Event 201 the symposium even included simulated newscasts on the outbreak:
Three months before the first U.S. case of COVID-19, Hopkins had game-planned the whole thing out. Yet, the disgraced former president in charge at the time was completely unprepared, then went into denial, spread misinformation, and finally gave up. 550,000 Americans have died.
(Credit to my son for sending this, about which I knew NOTHING, to me at 6 pm. Kubrick reaction photo at top, my daughter.)