Alarm set to go off at 10:18?
While searching 10:18 I came upon this.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about
About the Event 201 exercise
Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic.
…and this
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2005_atlantic_storm/
[Atlantic Storm]
How would world leaders manage the catastrophe of a fast-moving global epidemic of deadly disease? Atlantic Storm was a ministerial table-top exercise convened on January 14, 2005 by the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/index.html
The Dark Winter exercise, held at Andrews AFB, Washington, DC, June 22-23, 2001, portrayed a fictional scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack on US citizens.
Looks like [they] have had plenty of practice for making us ill.