Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
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Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#2A quick, cheap, non-invasive test that is less accurate (in the direction of more false positives) would be far more effective than a more accurate but slow, expensive, and intrusive test.
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#3My key takeaways
Against how our govt handled covid:
>> The irony is that this is a president who is a vaccine skeptic. Every meeting I have with him he is like, “Hey, I don’t know about vaccines, and you have to meet with this guy Robert Kennedy Jr. who hates vaccines and spreads crazy stuff about them.”
>> Well, that’s just stupidity. The majority of all US tests are completely garbage, wasted. If you don’t care how late the date is and you reimburse at the same level, of course they’re going to take every customer. Because they are making ridiculous money, and it’s mostly rich people that are getting access to that. You have to have the reimbursement system pay a little bit extra for 24 hours, pay the normal fee for 48 hours, and pay nothing [if it isn’t done by then]. And they will fix it overnight.
Against encryption/free speech:
>> The irony is that it’s digital social media that allows this kind of titillating, oversimplistic explanation of, “OK, there’s just an evil person, and that explains all of this.” And when you have [posts] encrypted, there is no way to know what it is. I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography [to be hidden with encryption like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger].
re: tiktok acquisition
>> But yes, it’s a poison chalice. Being big in the social media business is no simple game, like the encryption issue.
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#4From another article linked in the one above:
"In late February, CDC director Robert Redfield testified before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and was asked if healthy people should wear masks. “No,” Redfield responded. The day after that, US surgeon general Jerome Adams tweeted “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS.” Fauci himself, in early March, told a Senate committee that the general public didn’t need to wear them because Covid-19 wasn’t widespread enough."[1]
Regardless of opinions on how to respond to Covid, mismanagement by various institutions and media has been agonizing to see. I'm strongly against government paternalism and believe the vast amount of misinformation peddled by institutions many hold faith in led to conspiracy on the rise.
[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to...
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#5He points out that a standard nasal swab test is as accurate as a nasopharyngeal (deep) swab. This is readily available from labcorp, can be done at home, and the results are reasonably quick, within 48 hrs. It’s covered by insurance and includes overnight fedex shipping.
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#6A quick, cheap, non-invasive test that is less accurate (in the direction of more false positives) would be far more effective than a more accurate but slow, expensive, and intrusive test.
Right - see the MedCram lectures on the topic:
How to Beat COVID-19 with At-Home, Rapid Result Testing: 5 Min. Summary by Dr. Mina (Antigen Tests)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZWuyvBAWWQ
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 98: At Home COVID-19 Testing - A Possible Breakthrough (~ 15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Sv_pS8MgQ
At Home, Cheap, COVID-19 Tests with Results in 15 Minutes: How to Fix Testing with Dr. Michael Mina (~ 1 hr)
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#7>I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography [to be hidden with encryption like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger].
So Gates is against encryption because of CP but flew on epsteins Lolita Express in 2013, years after Epstein was a convicted child molester. He also has numerous other connections to both Maxwell and Epstein.
I mean knowing what i know about him before his "billionare philantropist PR project" of rockerfellian dimensions i was already sceptical but this is getting out of hand.
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#8He says "lies" should not be allowed to be encrypted.
... yes ...
\sarcasm on
let's have some people decide what lies are, and once we define that, make it illegal to encrypt these lies,
teach a lesson to these lie-encrypting bastards
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#9previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24082906
Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
#10>I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography [to be hidden with encryption like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger]. So Gates is against encryption because of CP but flew on epsteins Lolita Express in 2013, years after Epstein was a convicted child molester. He also has numerous other connections to both Maxwell and Epstein. I mean knowing what i know about him befor…
Gates really jumped the gun on this interview. Overly opinionated, judgmental, and paternalistic.
Listening to Gates talking about since makes the irony of it biting. Excel, the software designed under his watch keeps destroying scientific results, to the point gene names had to be renamed.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
Not to mention how Windows did all possible to hamstring Linux for decades, setting back science for god knows how long.
thanks Bill.