0:02Hantavirus.
0:04>> [music] >> The whole world is scared.
0:08Every channel, >> [music] >> every feed, every headline.
0:12But nobody's telling you what's actually behind it.
0:15>> [music] >> Nobody's telling you what comes next.
0:19I will.
0:21>> [laughter] >> All right, let's start with the basics.
0:24[music] Real quick. A rat, a ship, a virus, and politics. You've seen the name all over, but what does it mean? What does it do to your body? Nobody's putting that on screen. I've been digging through the [music and singing] real stuff, not the spin. So, before we get to who's responsible, let me let you in on what happens when this thing gets inside your chest, because that part alone, forget the rest. It starts like nothing. Fever, tired legs, some pain. 3 to 5 days looking normal, [music] nothing seems insane, then the crash. Your lungs start filling up with fluid, you can't [music] breathe, you can't stand, your body's
0:57going through it. Now, water from outside, your own body leaking in. Your chest becomes [music and singing] a swimming pool. You're drowning from within. And if they hit your kidneys, they start shutting [music] down. Your blood can't clot, you're bleeding inside without a [singing] sound. No vaccine, no cure, just machines to keep you breathing while doctors [music] watch and wait and hope that you're not leaving. The [singing] death rate, almost four out of every 10. Now, tell me, why isn't that the headline again and again? They [music] said no risks, said don't worry, said it's fine, said the exact same thing back in 2020. Down
1:26the line, three dead on a ship, passengers [music] on every flight. And the man in charge went home and slept that night.
1:34Wait. And here's the part that actually got me. This didn't start in some jungle or some secret lab somewhere.
1:41It started on a cruise ship, a vacation.
1:44And then those passengers [music] flew home to your city, to Texas, Georgia, Turkey, New Zealand.
1:50One ship, five [music] countries, and no one stopped the flights.
1:54Now, let me tell you who decided that was fine. Let's talk about [music] the orange man sitting in the big chair, Donnie, the guy who said he'd handle everything with flair. [music] Step one, he left the global health group, said, "We don't need them." The only worldwide team tracking [singing and music] viruses, he freed them. Step two, he cut the money for the labs and the research.
2:11The people studying outbreaks got handed the worst. Step three, [music] a ship comes in with bodies and he says the risk is very low. I hope it works out.
2:19Then goes to bed. Sound [music and singing] familiar? Go back.
2:21Play the 2020 tape. It'll disappear like magic. How many could have escaped?
2:25Millions gone. A lesson paid with the heaviest price. [music] And now Donnie's reading the same script word for word twice. He's not a leader when it counts.
2:33[music] He's a headline machine. He talks loud in the morning and hides behind a screen. He thinks the title makes him powerful, makes [music] him real. But you can't tweet a virus out of somebody's lungs, Donnie.
2:44That's not how this feels. Eight people on ship now scattered [music] across the world. The Andy strain, this version can jump from me to you, not just rats and mice no more. One sick person will do.
2:55[music and singing] And the teams that should be watching every airport, every port, Donnie cut their funding. Donnie shut the force. So now we score. [music] We share. We watch the numbers climb [singing] while the people who could have stopped this aren't even on the line. No vaccine coming. No treatment on [music and singing] the way. Just a bed machine and hope you make it through the day. [music] So next time they say low risk, >> [music] >> next time they go quiet on camera and change the subject, the body doesn't lie.
3:28>> [music] >> The numbers don't lie.
3:31And history, history definitely doesn't lie.
3:35>> [music] >> Now that you know what the virus does, let's go one floor up.
3:41Past the president, past the headlines, past the cover-up. [music] There's a group that doesn't panic when these things break loose. They don't scramble, don't call [music] meetings, don't need an excuse because they already knew. They always know. They're not watching the news. They're right in the flow. Old money, old names, old families running old games. [music] Different faces on the front, [singing] always the same frames.
4:05Think about it. Who makes money when the whole world gets scared?
4:08[music and singing] Who owns the labs?
4:09Who sells the cure? Who was prepared when fear goes up, control goes up? And control is the point, not the virus, [music] not the body count. They just set the joint. They don't need a war when the [music] virus does the job.
4:23They don't need a vote [music] when fear controls the crowd.
4:28The money's [music] just a curtain.
4:30Look at what's behind.
4:33The ones who never show their face are the ones who designed.
4:39>> [music] >> Look, I know this sounds like a movie. I get it.
4:43But stay with me for 1 second.
4:46>> [music] >> There's a magazine prints once a year out of London.
4:50Every year the cover has symbols in it.
4:53Every year those symbols happen. This year's cover?
4:59Syringes, [music] big ones, all over it.
5:03Printed months before the months before the news.
5:09I'm just saying. London One magazine [music] printed once a year for the powerful crowd. Not for you, not for me.
5:15It's for the people allowed. Every cover full of [music] symbols, little signs in plain sight. But most of us are never supposed to read, right? This year, syringes, [music] big ones, pills stacked up beside. Printed months before the before the three who died.
5:28Last year it was right. Year before, [music] right again. The year the whole world locked down. Go check the cover from back then. Now, you can say coincidence, [music] that's fair. I'll let you. But when the same pattern hits 10 times, it's hard to forget you. But we're warned. It's not a secret. It's [music] a message in the open. The trick is they're betting you won't look.
5:44That's the whole token. Not hiding [music] it, showing it, and knowing most won't care. That's the power. The answer's sitting right there, in the air.
5:54So, what's [music] next? The symbols that are still on the page, rockets and tanks, military tensions taking the stage. A birthday cake with 250, America's [music] big year turned into a crisis while the confetti's still in the air. A brain wired [music] to a joystick, your thoughts on someone's screen, technology inside a vaccine. You don't know what that means. Dollar signs [music] falling like rain, the economy going [singing] off a cliff and all of that. The roller deck, a reset, another shift. Every time a country fails, [music] a global entity profits. Every time a leader cracks, a bigger power
6:22profits. See, your government can't [music and singing] handle it. Let us step in now. That's the script. That's always been the script. That's the how.
6:28Donnie falls apart on [music] camera, right on schedule, right on cue. People lose their faith in countries. That's the breakthrough, then something [music] bigger fills the space, something without a vote, something you can't remove from office, something they wrote.
6:40>> [music] >> The cover for next year is already being designed.
6:46Same magazine, new symbols. [music] And somewhere right now, in a room you'll never see, someone already knows what those symbols mean.
6:59Do you?
7:01>> [music] [music] >> Do you?
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