(0:01 - 2:40) Hello and welcome to another episode of TRUTH Rx. My name is Christof Plothe and I'll be guiding you through the following slides, which I think are highly, highly relevant, not only for us, but for future generations. Well, most of us by now know that the idea of handling pathogens, modifying them is not a good idea, but we're constantly told, well, it's for the public safety and it is to tackle attacks of bioweapons. I don't know about you, but I a few years ago was convinced that all of this had been banned in the first place, only to find out in the last few years. Well, there's a lot going on on that topic and it is highly concerning because of several reasons. Well, I won't go in all of those arguments, but one of them is that can we really make labs safe enough to prevent escapes? And what most people have heard, there's no doubt about that anymore, that SARS-CoV-2 was manufactured in a lab and well, there are theories that it escaped or that it was even intentionally released. We don't know, at least I don't know at the moment, but nevertheless, it is worth checking what kind of similar events have happened in the past. And therefore, the title for today is The Great Escape, A History of Lab Leaks and the Dubious Science That Enables Them. And we'll explore a little bit the alarming history of laboratory leaks and the controversial science behind viral experimentation, focussing on the implications for future pandemics. Well, that's the topic in itself, whether pandemics actually exist. Well, there is, as we just said, a lot of talk about COVID and COVID measures and consequences of those measures. But something that we need to look at in order to prevent similar things from happening again is that we are still not quite sure, we know that it was manufactured, what happened for it to come out into the wild, come to all of us, to all nations on this planet. (2:40 - 3:04) So we need to look at a concern that it was manufactured there in the first place. And it is officially recognised that these leaks are a threat to public health worldwide and that it can lead to outbreaks. I'm very cautious with the term pandemics because that's hard to define. (3:04 - 6:06) And so we need to look at this because of the considerations of the events of the last few years. But we also need to look at the events of the years prior to that, because is it a good idea to enhance pathogens, genetically modify them and tell us later that it's to our safety and the safety of our children? Well, the elephant in the room when it comes to that topic, of course, is the topic of the SARS-CoV-2. And after all the investigations and all the evidence that we have from genetic sequencing to other studies that looked at the insertion of parts that are definitely not natural and are far beyond any chance to be integrated, there is no doubt about the fact that it basically was constructed in the Wuhan lab and that there is the involvement of the US government in this. So this connection raises significant concerns about the safety and regulation of high-level contaminant laboratories. And yeah, well, if the common sense doesn't say it's a risky thing to do that, we can see that they had been experimenting on bats with the coronavirus and they wanted to increase the transmissibility and virulence. And yes, they wanted to be able to do a cross-species infection. And that's why they inserted a certain amino acid sequences in order to do that. So these risky practises in itself, why do humans do this in the first place? If you're really not into that topic. And coupled with inadequate safety protocols, increase significantly the likelihood of an accidental release and increase the chance that one day people might do it on purpose. And so the clusters of the early cases of the Wuhan lab raised voices that it could have come from an animal market. But most people were not told at the beginning. In fact, all the papers that pointed, and there were quite a lot of them in the original phases of the outbreak, that pointed at human manipulation of the virus were dismissed and actually were discarded as conspiracy theory, which we now know was not the case. (6:08 - 15:24) And so the historical context, if we look at the past of all those lab leaks, is an interesting one. Because if you look at 2019, there was the SARS-CoV-2 first evidence of it that it pointed at the Wuhan lab and that it pointed at gain-of-function research. That was not the first incidence. If we look at 1977, there was a reemergence of a bird flu, H1N1, genetically identical to the strain from the 1950s. But this is linked to a lab leak during a Soviet vaccine trial, which caused a global pandemic. By the way, all the links for everything that I'm saying here will be posted under the interview. So in 1972 and in 1978, there was a smallpox virus that escaped from a UK lab twice and even led to fatalities and a subsequent scandal where people had to be fired and highlighting severe lapses in containment protocols. In 1938 to 1972, Venezuelan equine encephalitis outbreaks traced back to improperly inactivated vaccine strains with a major outbreak linked to the lab work in 1995. Well, I don't know about you, but I didn't know about most of those outbreaks. So you can see that these informations are not really supported by the media whilst being true. And the public deserves to know where all of them come from. And if we look even at the predecessor of SARS-CoV-2, if you look at SARS-CoV-1, it escaped labs multiple times post 2003 with significant leaks occurring at institutions with poor safety protocols. Look at this. It actually led to multiple, multiple escapes. And in 2007, and I don't know about you, but I only knew about foot and mouth disease in animals. And that's how I was trained. And all of a sudden children contracted the similar pattern to foot and mouth disease in humans. And I was all the time wondering where on earth this disease came from, whilst there have been certain cases. Now there's hardly any kindergarten that doesn't have some outbreak of this disease for humans. And it was in the UK traced to a leaky sewer pipe between a government lab and a vaccine manufacturer that caused widespread infection. In 2007 to 2025, there was the African swine fever strain that appeared in Georgia, matching lab samples, and which has now emerged in Spain. And if you're not in Europe at the moment and you know that, yeah, the swine fever outbreak in Spain now causes high intensity measures over there, and is officially even now being recognised to be of a lab origin because of the genetic sequencing of it. So it's not only involving us humans, it's also involving the animals. And if we look at the H5N1 bird flu variant that emerges in North Carolina, it is very similar to gain-of-function research conducted in neighbouring labs. That was in 2022. And in fact, we have the same now in 2025, the recent bird flu outbreaks being linked to genetic sequences of labs. So the historical context of this, let's look a little bit closer In 1977, a Russian flu was definitely linked to a lab leak, and that was a sudden appearance of an H1N1 strain that was genetically identical to a strain from the 1950s. That led experts to conclude that it was likely the result of a lab leak. And this incident in 1977 already raised huge concern about the safety of the labs and the handling of the virus, especially, as most of this is, for vaccine development. Because everybody is being told all the time that if there should be an attack, the only way to save humanity would be an adequate vaccine. But we come into the success story of this or the missing success story of this later on. So it highlighted again the potential danger of misleading pathogens in the name of scientific advancement. So another thing that we just mentioned, I did hear about this, but I didn't take it too seriously. But we should be more concerned because it was a smallpox lab in which in 1972, and then later on again, smallpox escaped. And this in 1972 led to a minor scandal that it looked at the significant breach in biosecurity protocols, and it raised alarms because people knew about the potential consequences of a smallpox epidemic situation. In 1978, there was even of smallpox an aerosol transmission, and that was very tragic, when a medical photographer contracted smallpox after aerosolised virus particles travelled through the duct of the university building housing of the lab. So this incident didn't only tragically result in the death of this photographer, but highlighted the potential catastrophic consequences of this pathogen. And well, after this incident in 1978, Henry Bedson, the head of the lab, he was basically fired for this, driven by guilt and pressure, he tragically took his own life, highlighting the severe personal and professional repercussions of lab leaks. And then came the story that we just mentioned of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis outbreaks, because outbreaks plural, it's a history of outbreaks linked to lab practises and vaccine strains. So that was in 1938. In 1972, 100% correlation. In 1995, it led to 85,000 people being affected. And in 1972, there were two incidences that were reported. And in 2013, five case studies on another outbreak. So it led to severe dangers to the entire public of the entire planet, because as you know, you can't confine a pathogen nowadays with travel, air travel, boat travel nowadays to an island or to a specific country, it will spread once it has been out, but usually it dims down after it has mutated for a while and becomes less pathogenic. That is a rule of virology that all the people in immunology do know. So there were multiple escapes of SARS-CoV-1 after 2003. And it was responsible for the first outbreak in 2003 that demonstrated an alarming escape from potential laboratory settings. And after the initial outbreak, it was confirmed to have leaked from labs at least six times in various locations across Asia, including Singapore and Taiwan. Just read that again. Yeah, at least six times it escapes. So these leaks raise significant concerns regarding the safety measures at place at high containment facility. So if you've seen these pictures of people in super safe suits with their own oxygen supply and everything, well, guess what? They somehow have to get in and somehow they have to get out. So how can you confine it in a safe way? Even if you reduce it by a magnitude, there is no 100% safety for it. (15:25 - 15:48) And if you look at the safety protocols that were involved, for example, at the Chinese National Institute of Virology, it faced scrutiny several times to the inadequate safety protocols. So no matter what the rules are, humans are humans. Escapes can happen because of human error. (15:48 - 18:24) And investigations revealed systematic failures in maintaining the required base safety standards, contributing to the risk associated with handling pathogens like SARS-CoV-1. Yeah, again, we're just human and there is no guarantee. So the first thing now is that we have problems in the infrastructure. We saw that again in 2007 with a foot and mouth disease outbreak. And we can also see the economic and agricultural crisis that it caused, as you can imagine. Most of us remember when at the airports, we have to step into a disinfectant with our shoes in order to enter another country. So what about animals again? If we look at the recent African swine fever in 2007 that appeared in Georgia, it was genetically identical to the one maintained in lab setting. And this strange sudden presence raised alarms about lab safety protocols and the potential for containment failure. So the next one is that it now reappeared in Spain and it causes panic amongst farmers all over Europe. That adds to the other pathogens of pigs that have already taken most of Europe with extreme measures. So the resurgence further indicates the possibility of leaks, raising concern about biosecurity measures in virology labs. And if we look at H5N1, so the bird flu in North Carolina in 2022, that was concerned because of alarming genetic similarities to strains being studied in nearby laboratories. We could add to the list Borrelia Lyme disease. We could add many, many other diseases nowadays. And we have to really take a decision about what to do. We've started to genetically manipulate insects. We did it to plants. We did it to mammals. (18:24 - 18:44) We now did it to humans. And well, if this is in the interest of science or the interest of money or the interest of biosecurity, so-called biosecurity, basically it's in the interest of bioweapons. That's another thing that all of us have to be aware of. (18:45 - 23:03) And that in 2022, a new variant of bird flu emerged. And again, this was very, very similar. And gain-of-function certainly was involved in that. So if you understand the cycle of lab leaks and failed solutions, we also have to look at the solutions. Because basically, it represents a very, very unhealthy hybris that gain-of-function research is essential for pandemic preparedness, because it ignores the potential risks as what we were just able to see. And if we one day create the release accidental or intentional of a really pathogenic strain out there, because we know that basically from all the documents, official records and everything, certainly COVID wasn't really much more than ordinary flu. So we could ask ourselves why it was hyped in order to get a vaccine a year later on, and that it was basically manageable with classical means of controlling an infection, which involved giving people vitamin D, because that probably could have solved the entire saga, and early intervention treatments that were wonderful treatments out there since basically May 2020, which were completely ignored by the health officials. So hybris is the one thing that we certainly can recognise as a trace in people that are involved in this research. And yeah, there are leaks. So pathogens can escape from high security labs to inadequate safety protocols and management failures. And yeah, it can lead to panic. In response to leaks, government and health authorities implement immediate, often drastic measures. But we have to ask ourselves, should we really use these measures again? Because we could see that in many attempts, starting with swine flu, masks and social distancing were introduced, weren't successful, and especially the release of the vaccine caused more harm than the actual disease, which we can now subscribe to COVID measures again. And if we can put all of these things together, we can state that this concept is a failure. These measures frequently prove ineffective, shifting scrutiny away from lab practise towards public compliance. So if we put this together, it's all done for biosecurity, and it's all done for the development of vaccines. But this research, this vaccine research can actually trigger outbreaks themselves. And we can see that the health measure that's given to us in order to prevent any severe consequences from that, namely vaccines, have failed in all the attempts to do it. Just with the swine flu vaccine, which was taken off the market after only a few months, after thousands of severe side effects occurred. And as just said, it created more damage than the actual disease. We could see the same now again for the COVID ModRNA genetic experiment on humanity, which definitely caused more casualties. (23:04 - 24:21) And we will see about the suffering of three quarters of the world's population because they took the injections. And yeah, just a reminder of all the people, all the scientists and all the attempts to withdraw the technology from the market, as we have enough thousands of studies to prove that this wasn't a safe and an effective measure for humanity. And yeah, so in summary, the COVID-19 vaccines lacked efficiency. We now even have clear evidence that not only since the original study, studies that looked at it, that there is a negative efficiency. We have over five studies showing, starting with the Cleveland Clinic studies, that as the more injections you have, the more likely you are to get COVID. And even it doesn't prevent severe progression because after three, six months, it depends on what kind of technology you have and which kind of strain of the boosters you had, it turns into negative efficiency. (24:22 - 31:10) Yeah, so something that definitely should stop the whole process by now. And when it comes to safety, it's absolutely appalling. We have 28 different pathways that it can cause cancer. We have the myocardial issues. We have the endothelial damage. Long story short, it can affect any organ of the system. So with all those measures, we need an ongoing monitoring, something that is definitely not done, and that's only being established by people that invest their own funds in order to do it, whilst it would have been easy enough to make a little app, get the injection, and then follow up on potential side effects. A simple measure that could have prevented a lot of unnecessary suffering because by now, I think the whole project would have been stopped. And of course, we still don't have the data of all of it. If you look at New Zealand, where they're just trying to jail a whistleblower that looked at the data and found the results absolutely appalling. If we look at Australia, where all of the records have just been destroyed. If we look at the UK, where officially people are being told that it could harm public confidence and could scare the public to release the data about the potential harms. In most other countries here in Europe, the governments are just not releasing the data, no explanation given for it. So we need transparency in order to come to any conclusions. And yeah, I can only ask everybody watching this to demand this from their own health officials. So if we look at then the measures that were taken apart from the vaccines, that lockdowns were largely ineffective in containing COVID-19 mortality rates, whilst imposing significant social and economic burdens on communities. This is not a conspiracy theory. That's a John Hopkins meta-analysis. And if we look at all the other measures that were taken, if we look at the masks, it really was a theatre of safety. We all remember dancing hospital staff. We all remember the calls to protect our grandma and granddad by wearing it. But what about the efficiency? Well, the Cochrane Review found under 1% efficiency to reduce viral transmission. That's not a lot to impose something that clearly has shown to lower oxygen levels, keep people in fear all the time, increase carbon dioxide inhalation, not even talking of the numerous chemicals that were involved, depending on the quality where the masks were made. And then they achieved by doing this a very, very simple thing. They kept the fear of the pandemic alive, because otherwise, how would you have known? But if you looked all the time at other people wearing masks and had to wear it yourself, you reminded yourself every day. And that's why 80% of people really believed in a security theatre than any effective measures. There are loads of studies, but the Cochrane Review analysed 15 studies across multiple countries, and it shows a minimal impact on reducing respiratory virus spread. If you just look at the way it was even handled, we all remember dangling masks under the rear mirror in the cars. That was definitely not a way to contain a pathogen. That was to invite pathogens to be spreading further. So it increased anxiety, and that mandates increased them even more. And that had a huge impact on mental health. So the real biosecurity threat that labs definitely show that it was more than just wet markets. The evidence clearly shows that the most significant risk for future pandemics stem from high containment laboratories. So their history of leaks combined with inadequate accountability measures poses a great danger than traditionally considered sources of zoonotic diseases. And this can hardly be debated nowadays anymore. Whilst we're constantly told, yeah, well, we have to call all those animals that are affected by a bird flu. If you look at the ostriches that were just recently culled, in order to contain pathogens in the animal kingdom, well, if you look at the past, if there was a pathogen, then the ones that survived, it gave their genes to the next generation, which probably was the most effective way to deal with it, apart from the fact that most of those outbreaks are in industrialised food production. And there's not a more stressed animal on this planet than one confined to a very, very tiny space, having poor nutrition, no sunlight, and just waiting for its death. So we have to address this and we can't rely on the officials to do it. So please spread the information and please discuss it, discuss it with your friends, discuss it with your local politicians. The changes can only come from below, they can't come from above. Because addressing biosecurity threats, there are too many interests that are involved. If we rely on an official path, we will not succeed. And please, yeah, we need a moratorium on gain-of-function research. (31:10 - 34:18) Multiple calls have been established in the last few years. We need to implement a global suspension of gain-of-function research to prevent further creation of potentially dangerous pathogens. We need a radical transparency for virology labs. Most of the people don't even know that they might have a lab like it in their neighbourhood. In Switzerland, this has just come out and created a huge scandal that in the middle of a big city, you have a high security lab, and any local leak could lead to catastrophic consequences. If we look at other countries that have dozens of them, you can just add to the potential problems that could be created. And so we need to establish strict regulations for transparency in virology labs, including public access to research protocols, safety measures, and incidence reports. All of this is classified and not available for us. We need to make sure that experts that are independent can interpret the data that is coming out of this. So we need, in whatever outbreak, we need to focus on prevention and early treatment. And there's a lot we can do. And as just said, if we would have just given everybody vitamin D in 2020, the whole thing would have been over within a few days or weeks, if we would have done it at the same time. So redirect resources towards investing public health initiatives that prioritise prevention and early treatment. This is what the World Council for Health stands for, by the way. And yeah, if we look at the amount of money that flows into the health agency, whether that's a World Health Organisation, which is basically 80 to 90% financed by people of private interest, and guess what, the money that is dedicated to this organisation, the people that give, the donors that give the money, they can decide in the projects. So guess what? Yeah, almost all of it goes into vaccines. So of course, it's not profitable to just give people vitamin D and ask them to keep a healthy lifestyle, not to be locked down in rooms, but to go out into nature, to exercise, get sunshine, and all the things that we know, even social contacts are essential to keep us healthy. So all of these things that really promote health should be in any future strain, the first measures in order to contain a potential outbreak. So thank you very much for your attention. And thank you very much for Will for organising this platform. And please get active. And yeah, just do your own thinking. And yeah, live a sorrow life. All the best. Bye-bye.