Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

In a eerie redux of 2020’s chaos, UK schools are being thrust into unannounced lockdown simulations under the guise of “pandemic preparedness drills”—with children herded into classrooms, doors barricaded, and parents left in the dark, sparking whispers of social engineering rehearsals for the next big scare.

The covert operations, exposed in The Telegraph’s bombshell report, mirror pre-COVID “Event 201” tabletop exercises that eerily foreshadowed global shutdowns—raising the specter: Was the pandemic a trial run for something far more insidious?

We’ve seen this play out previously, complete with mass fear campaigns, soap-opera psyops, and “totalitarian” compliance tools.

The drills, rolled out across England without fanfare, involve “sudden” alerts forcing pupils to seal rooms, switch off lights, and hunker down—ostensibly to test readiness for “biohazards” or “chemical attacks.”

From the Telegraph report:

Exercise Pegasus, which concluded last month and involved all major government departments, was the biggest pandemic simulation exercise the country has ever held.

Those participating in the drill were told a novel enterovirus had broken out on a fictional Island in southeast Asia before spreading across the world.

Unlike Covid-19, which disproportionately affected older age groups, the new virus was most lethal in the young. The virus, “EV-D68”, was said to cause respiratory failure, brain swelling and – in rare cases – paralysis in infants, children and teenagers.

One parent fumed to the outlet: “It was completely unannounced and caused unnecessary panic among the children and parents.”

A teacher at a Midlands primary school echoed the trauma: “The children were terrified. Some were crying and asking if it was real.”

Headteachers, bound by government edicts, stayed mum—until FOI demands cracked the silence, revealing the exercises as part of a broader “resilience” push by the Department for Education (DfE) and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

These unheralded lockdowns aren’t born in a vacuum; they hark back to October 2019’s Event 201 simulation, co-hosted by Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—where global elites war-gamed a coronavirus outbreak, complete with media blackouts, mandatory quarantines, and economic shutdowns, mere months before COVID crashed the world stage.

As we’ve previously highlighted, that “exercise” eerily scripted real-world responses: supply chain collapses, “misinformation” crackdowns, and vaccine rollouts—tools later deployed with ruthless efficiency.

Fast-forward to 2025: The DfE’s “secret” drills, piloted in 20 schools since September, mandate “no-notice” activations to “build muscle memory” for crises, per UKHSA guidelines.

One directive, leaked via FOI, instructs: “The exercise should be as realistic as possible, including the use of sirens or announcements to simulate an emergency.”

Critics, including shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, slammed it as “overreach,” but insiders whisper it’s beta-testing compliance for the next wave—be it bird flu, mpox, or a lab-leak encore.

This resurgence reeks of the behavioral blueprints we’ve previously dissected, with UK officials admitting to having scripted BBC and ITV soaps like EastEnders and Emmerdale to “covertly shape public opinion” on vaccines—embedding pro-jab narratives to “coerce compliance” without overt propaganda.

We highlighted this in 2022, three years before it was confirmed to be scripted propaganda:

In 2021, SAGE advisors like Prof. Susan Michie revealed that the UK health authority deployed “totalitarian” fear tactics—exaggerating threats via “frightening” messaging to enforce lockdowns, admitting: “We used emerging evidence to increase the perceived level of personal threat… A substantial number of people still did not feel sufficiently personally threatened.”

The UK Government leaned on “mass formation psychosis,” a hypnotic herd mentality to justify controls—turning isolated anxieties into collective obedience, ripe for mandates.

Was COVID just a warm-up—a global dry run for engineered pandemics that lock down dissent as deftly as schools? With UKHSA eyeing “annual exercises” and whispers of EU-wide sims, the stage feels set.

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