Why did health officials dump their stock in January 2020?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-health-officials-dumped-stocks-jan-2020-declaring-covid-emergency

In January 2020, weeks before the Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency and lock down, when stocks were still at an all time high and thriving, they decided to DUMP 60% more stock than they had the previous 12 months. One deputy to NIAID Director Anthony Fauci reported selling between $157,000 and $480,000 in stocks before the end of January.

Weeks later, stock prices around the world went into freefall at the fastest rate since the Great Depression as word got round that officials were planning a complete shutdown of the global economy.

Hmmm. Did they KNOW the stock market was about to take a huge tumble?  Did they already know in JANUARY that they were going to go full draconian lock down on us?  Of course they did.  That leading officials were already privately planning to recreate China’s lockdowns across the western world by January 2020, however - and making stock trades based on those plans - further confirms the all-too-prescient stock tip by someone who claimed to have “friends and family in the medical industry and field, including at CDC and one close friend at WHO” on January 30, 2020, which proved to be a near-perfect foretelling of subsequent events:

There are very high profile investors who've been silently pulling out ahead of time… the WHO is already talking about how ‘problematic’ modeling the Chinese response in Western countries is going to be, and the first country they want to try it out in is Italy. If it begins a large outbreak in a major Italian city they want to work through the Italian authorities and world health organizations to begin locking down Italian cities in a vain attempt to slow down the spread at least until they can develop and distribute vaccines, which btw is where you need to start investing.

This article is even MORE damning.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-washington-officials-stocks-trading-markets-stimulus-11666192404

A deputy to top health official Anthony Fauci reported 10 sales of mutual funds and stocks totaling between $157,000 and $480,000 that month. Collectively, officials at another health agency, Health and Human Services, reported 60% more sales of stocks and funds in January than the average over the previous 12 months, driven by a handful of particularly active traders. By March, agencies across the government were working on wide-reaching measures to prop the economy and markets. Then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao purchased more than $600,000 in two stock funds while her agency was involved in the pandemic response and her husband, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, was leading negotiations over a giant, market-boosting stimulus bill. And as the government was devising a loan package aimed specifically at helping companies including Boeing Co. and General Electric Co., a Treasury Department official involved in administering the aid acquired shares of both companies.

Federal officials owned millions of dollars of stock in industries most affected by the pandemic and the government’s response. About 240 officials at health agencies and at the Pentagon, a key player in the vaccine rollout, reported owning a total of between $9 million and $28 million in stocks of drug, manufacturing and biotechnology companies that won federal contracts related to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, the Journal’s analysis found.

On Jan. 24, four days after the CDC publicly reported the first confirmed U.S. Covid-19 infection, Hugh Auchincloss, principal deputy director at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, summed up the state of his agency in an email: “New coronavirus all the time.”

That same day, while the stock market remained lofty, Dr. Auchincloss reported selling $15,001 to $50,000 of a stock mutual fund. Days later he sold two more mutual funds and a stock, Chevron Corp., according to his financial disclosures, which give wide dollar ranges. That was just the beginning.

Dr. Auchincloss was invited to a Jan. 29 meeting of an NIH working group called the International Clinical Research Subcommittee. The top agenda item was “Wuhan coronavirus—plans for a response,” according to emails released in response to public-records requests.

NIAID employee Dr. Auchincloss disclosed six sales of mutual funds that day, totaling between $111,006 and $315,000 in value.

His January sales amounted to the largest number of transactions he had reported for a single month since 2018, according to his financial disclosures.

Each holding he sold fell sharply in the market downturn that soon followed, as the public and investors started paying attention to the threat posed by Covid-19.

Dr. Auchincloss, who retained some other holdings, didn’t respond to requests for comment. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases declined to make him available for an interview.

The agency said that financial disclosure reports are routinely reviewed by NIH ethics officials to ensure compliance with reporting requirements and resolve potential conflicts of interest. It declined to say whether Dr. Auchincloss made the trades himself or had a managed account.

If anyone still believes that this pandemic, lockdown, shelter in place, etc was not premeditated and preplanned, I would love to see the rationale for why.  The government agency employees grew their wealth at exponential rates (this is illegal insider trading no matter how they choose to explain it).  I would also hypothesize and compellingly argue that the pandemic was merely the precursor to what they really wanted: vaccines in everyone’s arms.  Without the scare tactics and lockdowns and fear factor, they could not accomplish the biggest coup ever known against the global population: pharma and governments had to set the dinner table before they served up the almighty spike protein injection as the prime rib feast.  While they all grew their wealth, and us common folk deal with inflation, illness, death, social unrest propaganda, and hatred by our family and friends for healthcare and political decisions.