The Conspiracy Otter Episode 8: Conspiracy Otter vs Chasing the White Rabbit

Chasing the White Rabbit is a term we’ve all heard before. It comes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Alice's strange journey begins when she sees a white rabbit and decides to follow him down his rabbit hole.

The phrase "Follow the white rabbit" means to follow an idea or a concept which may lead to a strange place. 

Chasing the white rabbit is also a governmental term, in which we use to describe people's fascination with chasing down the truth, following leads, even if it takes them down a path of deception. The Department of Defense knows that people will investigate stories, rumors, things they overhear so that it leads them down a path away from the truth or things they want to keep hidden. Knowing this they will put out misinformation, phony stories, cover stories created to deliberately throw off the public.  

I think that they will link these cover stories to the truth they are hiding, so that when you chase the rabbit down the hole and find that part of the story is too unbelievable or has too many holes in it to stand on its own that the public will think all of it is untrue and divert you away from what is hiding now in plain sight. 

So the question you have to ask yourself as you chase the white rabbit is, what do you believe? What is the truth and if it smells fishy, there just might be a conspiracy

First let’s set the stage a bit and acknowledge at the time we are recording this there is a world pandemic. Coronavirus, Covo-19, Wuhan Virus whatever name you are using there has been a pandemic declared in early 2020. Later on, we’ll see how this fits into our topic in this episode.

This is not the first time such a decoration has been declared. Following the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak that killed at least 11,300 people, the World Bank launched a bond and insurance instruments in 2017 to establish a mechanism that would quickly deploy funds to help tackle outbreaks of infectious diseases. One of the things that countries are looking for when help is needed is cash. It is sometimes quicker to have cash on hand to buy the medical, shelter, food, etc supplies than wait for the logistics to be achieved to get those supplies shipped or airlifted to where they are needed. One of the methods created for this was to get investors to buy World Bank - Pandemic Bonds  or Pandemic Emergency Financing (PEF). Designed to potentially “save millions of lives and entire economies” by speedily funnelling money to nations facing pandemics. But critics say the “insanely complicated” terms of the high-interest bonds are heavily skewed towards investors, while for the victims any payouts may come too late, if at all. 

One economist described the bonds, payouts from which depend on how deadly the outbreak is, as “obscene”.  $500 Million payout, UNLESS... more people die Payout on the bond is suspended if there is an outbreak of new influenza viruses or coronavirus (SARS, MERS). Instead of receiving almost 12% on their investments, the bond KEEPS investors’ money if there is an outbreak of Filovirus, Coronavirus, Lassa Fever, Rift Valley Fever and/or Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. 

If more than 2,500 people die, across 8 countries investors will get nothing,