Bret Weinstein

Yeah.

But the question is...

What I want to know is if you're constantly running tabletop exercises with infectious diseases so that event 201 stands out because it just happened to be the one that was shortly before the pandemic and it got lucky with respect to some of the parameters being right.

Okay.

But it's like when I first discovered that I had...

I think I probably mentioned this to you.

When Heather and I finished the first draft of our book, we were in the Amazon for two weeks, intentionally insulated from all contact with the world.

And we emerged to this military checkpoint at which you transition from out of contact to back in contact.

And so we're sort of looking at our phones and, uh,

we start seeing this thing about a coronavirus, and this is our first awareness of it.

And, oh, the coronavirus, the first case in the new world is in Ecuador.

We're reading this in Spanish, trying to understand what it is.

And it's, you know, oh, a bat coronavirus has escaped, zoonotic, this, that, and the other.

And because I was a bat biologist, I...

briefly looked into it, figured out who the bats in question were, where the disease came from, all of that.

And I tweeted to my followers, you know, this is a developing story, but it adds up based on what I know about the bats.

And one of my longtime followers tweeted back.

He says, oh, so you think it's just a coincidence that it happened on the doorstep of a biosafety level for laboratory studying these very viruses?

And I thought, first of all, what's a biosafety level four laboratory?

And then I thought, well, maybe that's not a piece of information worth processing if there are a thousand laboratories studying these viruses.