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Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by ethbro »

natrik wrote: post #4

From 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 w…

What would the result have been if, in late February, the US government had said "Everyone should use a mask"?

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

#12

Post by double-a »

kossTKR wrote: post #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 befor…

I don't follow. If he was a child abuser as you're implying, wouldn't he be for encryption?

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

#13

Post by SpicyLemonZest »

ethbro wrote: post #11
natrik wrote: post #4

From 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 w…

What would the result have been if, in late February, the US government had said "Everyone should use a mask"?

Everyone would probably have started making masks, as happened in the countries without pre-existing mask cultures that did recommend them early. The medical supply wouldn't have changed much, since consumer retailers couldn't get them anyway at the height of the shortage.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by davidw »

ethbro wrote: post #11
natrik wrote: post #4

From 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 w…

What would the result have been if, in late February, the US government had said "Everyone should use a mask"?

What if they'd invoked the defense production act to actually crank out enough of the things?

Or told everyone to make them, like the Czech republic did?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/04/czech-gove...

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by the-dude »

glofish wrote: post #10
kossTKR wrote: post #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 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 f…

How many decades are you exactly talking about?

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by glofish »

davidw wrote: post #14
ethbro wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would the result have been if, in late February, the US government had said "Everyone should use a mask"?

What if they'd invoked the defense production act to actually crank out enough of the things? Or told everyone to make them, like the Czech republic did? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/04/czech-gove...

the number of cases in Czech republic are going up, currently are higher then they have ever been ... so there

turns out it makes no difference how many you crank out, what you lock down and when

the examples that we should do this or that are pointless,

everyone will run the same fate as Sweden, lots of cases, the epidemic runs it course, then it is over

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by chance_state »

glofish wrote: post #10
kossTKR wrote: post #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 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 f…

>Listening to Gates talking about [science] 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.

Make sure you warm up before making a stretch like this, folks.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by kossTKR »

double-a wrote: post #12
kossTKR wrote: post #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 befor…

I don't follow. If he was a child abuser as you're implying, wouldn't he be for encryption?

Do you seriously think he's against encryption for his own class of unfathomably rich peers?

He's against encryption for the commoners, the 99.999% of people not part of the transnational elite, who as we've seen in the Epstein case can fly around and do more or less what they want with both people and money because of connections to "intelligence".

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by simonh »

kossTKR wrote: post #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 befor…

So what you’re saying is that being against encryption is somehow aligned with the interests of child molesters? How does that work?
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