Blog

At the very moment scientists and oversight bodies are systematically dismantling the Corona era, a new fear wave appears — and hijacks the space. A mechanism worth knowing.

In April 2026, the Copernicus journal Geoscientific Model Development publishes a methodological overview paper that goes virtually unreported in mainstream climate coverage. Author: Detlef van Vuuren and the CMIP7 ScenarioMIP consortium — the official working group that defines the emissions scenarios on which the next IPCC assessment cycle, and global climate modelling more broadly, will be built.

In 2022, Bill Gates sits in the ABC studio of The View — promoting his book “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic”, published 3 May 2022 by Knopf Doubleday — and delivers a line that comes out with an unmistakable smirk pulling at the corner of his mouth:

On 4 May 2026 — the same day the WHO officially confirms the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius — Germany’s tagesschau airs a 99-second explanatory clip in its vertical social-media format. A young presenter stands before a glowing blue world-map backdrop with the tagesschau wordmark above her. Cut in: a statement by Stefan Schmiedel — “Infektiologe und Tropenmediziner” (infectious disease specialist and tropical medicine physician), identified in the lower third without further context. In substance, he is the leading Hamburg-UKE voice on imported tropical disease.

Der Spiegel is regarded as the gold standard. Its in-house “Dokumentation” department is held up as a fact-checking operation without peer. The red magazine as an institution that toppled chancellors, exposed scandals, protected democracy.

A pattern consists of repetitions. This one is documented. The Timeline # November 2020 — ZDF heute journal # Uğur Şahin in an interview on the BioNTech vaccine: the mRNA candidate was safe, 50 million doses would be delivered before the end of 2020. The decisive trial data were imminent. 1

The body odour changes. Not dramatically, not suddenly — but noticeably. Fermented, sweet, yeasty, sometimes like overripe fruit. Those who know this get a shrug from their doctor: hormone imbalance perhaps, or stress, or not drinking enough water. The biochemistry offers a more precise answer.

Institutions train for outbreaks. They build networks. They model scenarios. They use AI for this. We read the patterns. We use AI for this. The tools are symmetrical. This is not a claim about intent. It is an observation about structure — and about who gets counted in that structure.

Since June 2025, HateAid holds a status that received almost no press coverage: EU Trusted Flagger under Article 22 of the Digital Services Act. What that means: platforms such as Meta, YouTube and X are legally required to process HateAid’s reports faster and with priority. Not as a courtesy — as a legal obligation.

On 5 May 2026, BioNTech announces: up to 1,860 jobs cut — 22 percent of its workforce. The plants in Idar-Oberstein and Marburg close by end of 2027. The CureVac sites too. COVID vaccine production transfers entirely to Pfizer.

On 18 May 2026, the 79th World Health Assembly (WHA79) opens in Geneva. On the agenda: the PABS annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement — the mechanism that is supposed to determine what countries receive in return for sharing pathogen data that enables vaccine and drug development.

On 22–23 April 2026, the WHO conducted Exercise Polaris II: a two-day pandemic simulation involving 26 countries, 600 health experts, and more than 25 partner organisations. The scenario: a fictional new bacterial strain spreading across 27 countries. Ten days later, the WHO confirmed the first hantavirus cluster aboard the MV Hondius.