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Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by fabian2k »

refurb wrote: post #36

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues. His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues. So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?

There are many other people interviewed about Covid and other public health issues. But until recently almost all of the experts were essentially unknown to the general population. Gates is simply a very widely known name, and due to the Gates Foundation actually somewhat relevant to the topic.

I could very well be that his interviews attract far more attention than interviews with experts, but you can't really compensate for that kind of name recognition.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by ed25519FUUU »

refurb wrote: post #36

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues. His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues. So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?

Indeed very wealthy unelected elites shaping public policy should leave a sour taste in all of our mouths.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by TomMarius »

glofish wrote: post #16
davidw wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's because the country loosened the restrictions. It worked, and should've been kept. Sadly the leadership here is populist too, which worked at first (the popular thing in Europe was to restrict) but then didn't (the popular thing became to open up). If they listened to our experts instead of being populists, we wouldn't have opened up and the cases would go to zero, as it nearly did a few months ago.

Source: am Czech.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by brandontreb »

I can't understand the 'microchip in vaccines' issue. You mean to tell me that my iPhone can't last a full day on a battery charge, however we have microscopic tech capable of tracking location data and relaying it somewhere and doesn't need charging once injected into the body?

I'll take my microchip in space grey please.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by olivermarks »

rglover wrote: post #39
refurb wrote: post #36

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues. His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues. So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?

An excellent question that shouldn't be downvoted. Why is Bill Gates "the guy?" Don't read that in a conspiratorial sense, just in a rational "can someone explain this to me" sense.

Gates was born wealthy and connected and is now one of the richest humans on the planet, and owns or controls multiple corporate media companies (his foundation funds UK media company the guardian 'global development', the UK BBC 'world service trust as european based examples, Conde Nast in the US (Wired etc) are effectively Gates PR mouthpieces). As an oligarch he can pronounce as a 'philanthropist' on global public policy direction with little or no media pushback or investigation into his affairs. He follows in the footsteps of Carnegie, Mellon and other powerful monopoly business titans in the era of Davos globalists and is the consummate big league globalist.

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Post by crocodiletears »

simonh wrote: post #20
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?

What he's implying is that Gates' willingness to associate with known child sex traffickers indicates that his concern about CP is likely disingenuous, and merely a posture he's adopting to push a policy goal he supports for less politically palletable reasons.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by bluedevil2k »

ralph84 wrote: post #31
rgrieselhuber wrote: post #17

He has a very weird habit of looking happy when people mention bad things happening, such as the collapse of the economy, second waves of COVID, etc.

The charitable take is he's still a socially awkward nerd. The uncharitable take is he's still as ruthless as he was during the embrace, extend, extinguish days and since the pandemic has been great business for him why shouldn't he be happy.

What are you taking about? The man devotes his time and considerable resources to public health and solving the tough to solve issues instead of spending his time owning sports teams and racing yachts. Yet...you still look for the negatives in his motives? “Great Business?” The man is literally giving away his money, all this pandemic is doing is taking more of his precious time up than normal.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by Closi »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #62
refurb wrote: post #36

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues. His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues. So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?

Indeed very wealthy unelected elites shaping public policy should leave a sour taste in all of our mouths.

I mean we have other unelected experts leading the pandemic response (eg Fauci) so does he need to go?

Or is it just about the wealth?

Bill Gates is there because his foundation is responsible for helping to eradicate diseases and coordinate pandemic responses, so without his wealth he certainly has experience in this field.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by mehrdadn »

refurb wrote: post #36

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues. His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues. So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?

Don't forget he gave a TED talk warning the world about the next pandemic. And obviously he knows a thing or two about high-level issues dealing with epidemics (which extend beyond just the medicine). Why would they just ignore him?

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by spaetzleesser »

refurb wrote: post #36

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues. His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues. So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?

"So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?"

There is definitely a billionaire cult going on these days. I don't know when it started but I see more and more headlines "billionaire does X", "billionaire says Y". Somehow being a billionaire gives you credibility on everything you do or say.

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