I confess that I scan the New York Times, along with a number of other online periodicals, as reading a wide range of news and views is informative. I’m also entertained, occasionally offended, and often mystified by the blindness to facts and reality. On some days there is an article or opinion piece that stands out, allowing me to understand the way of the world a little better.
In the pandemic’s early days, my wife advised that Bill Gates was part of the nefarious plan that had brought this epoch upon us. I didn’t know as much about him as I do now and her wisdom has been confirmed, although I did respond back then that anyone who was in charge of Microsoft, a company designed around planned obsolescence, was surely capable of approaching healthcare in a similar fashion.
I’ve included Bill Gates’ recent Op-Ed in the Times in this writing, as it succinctly presents the delusional power we face today. His words are exactly as they appear, with my responses and inquiries added after each paragraph.
From The New York Times Opinion Section
Bill Gates: ‘I Worry We’re Making the Same Mistakes Again’
(Really Bill? — This title is absolutely hysterical in every sense of the word)
March 19, 2023
By Bill Gates
Mr. Gates, a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is the author of “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.”
Imagine there’s a small fire in your kitchen. Your fire alarm goes off, warning everyone nearby about the danger. Someone calls 911. You try to put the fire out yourself — maybe you even have a fire extinguisher under the sink. If that doesn’t work, you know how to safely evacuate. By the time you get outside, a fire truck is already pulling up. Firefighters use the hydrant in front of your house to extinguish the flames before any of your neighbors’ homes are ever at risk of catching fire.
“Someone calls 911!” — are you thinking of your cook, maid, or butler? But great overall analogy Bill! Is this what you are alluding to? — Imagine a family member has come down with a bad case of the flu. It could be dangerous, but you know that loving care is most important. Maybe you even have herbs in your kitchen that help with fever and discomfort. You phone a doctor who says there are some helpful medications and treatments. If drugs are prescribed, they are relatively safe and easily obtained from your friendly local pharmacist. After a few days there will be no cause for concern because, above all, natural immunity cures most ills.
Bill, we are all so very glad you’ve seen the light. Enough said — oh, there’s more…
We need to prepare to fight disease outbreaks just as we prepare to fight fires. If a fire is left to burn out of control, it poses a threat not only to one home but to an entire community. The same is true for infectious diseases, except on a much bigger scale. As we know all too well from Covid, an outbreak in one town can quickly spread across an entire country and then around the world.
Where are you headed with this? Are you trying to scare us, Bill? Wasn’t the government’s medical advice to do nothing until your symptoms of Covid-19 got out of control — and only then go to the emergency room where there was little that could be done? All the while, we were supposed to wait for the cavalry to arrive, but by the time ineffective and dangerous mRNA vaccines were available, those who could have been saved with ivermectin or other cures were dead.
You know that, right? Are you admitting the government’s response to the pandemic was flawed? What do you think went wrong?
When the World Health Organization first described Covid-19 as a pandemic just over three years ago, it marked the culmination of a collective failure to prepare for pandemics, despite many warnings. And I worry that we’re making the same mistakes again. The world hasn’t done as much to get ready for the next pandemic as I’d hoped. But it’s not too late to stop history from repeating itself. The world needs a well-funded system that is ready to spring into action at a moment’s notice when danger emerges. We need a fire department for pandemics.
Hold on, Bill. Are you suggesting that the very same well-funded system that took your money was a collective failure (your words)? There actually was a fire department for pandemics and you were one of the chiefs, funding and influencing the World Health Organization.
You know very well you’re also part of the global elite that invested in Big Pharma and vaccines. Despite their failures, you did make a killing there, no?
To be brutally honest, we really don’t care what you worry about — or what you think will work next time. So what do you want? And why in the world should we let you influence what happens in the next pandemic?
I’m optimistic about a network that the W.H.O. and its partners are building called the Global Health Emergency Corps. This network of the world’s top health emergency leaders will work together to get ready for the next pandemic. Just as firefighters run drills to practice responding to a fire, the Emergency Corps plans to run drills to practice for outbreaks. The exercises will make sure that everyone — governments, health care providers, emergency health workers — knows what to do when a potential outbreak emerges.
Oh Bill, you must be joking. As I said, we know you did this before — and paid for it. Wasn’t Event 201 exactly that: planning and organizing for a worldwide pandemic? Whether this included foul play or not, why should we give you and your co-conspirators another chance when you failed so miserably back then?
Could it be that the attempt to have everyone obey mandates was a failure in every way? Maybe this time you wouldn’t rely on your friends in Big Pharma to come to the rescue. Or perhaps you’d give up inaccurate testing, ineffective means of protection, and insane lockdowns?
One of the most important jobs of the corps will be to take quick action to stop the spread of a pathogen. The speed of action requires countries to have large-scale testing capabilities that identify potential threats early. Environmental surveillance like sewage testing is key, since many pathogens show up in human waste. If a sewage sample comes back positive, a rapid response team would deploy to the affected area to find people who might be infected, carry out a response plan and kick off the necessary community education about what to look for and how to stay protected.
I guess you’ve learned nothing. Are you kidding with this large-scale testing? What did that accomplish? And Bill, come on now, sewage testing is key? I have a feeling you have just put a few pesos into developing testing kits of all sorts, knowing you are investing in the sewage business — and can get some free promotion in the Times.
You are busted again; stooping so low as to make this opinion piece about profits. But I should have known, ‘cause that’s how you operate. Open your eyes, by now, you should be looking back and realizing that what we just experienced was not about money.
Here’s the deal: The pandemic was a social crisis, revealing how institutional responses failed the individual, a human problem. It wasn’t about money, but some people made it about profits. Wouldn’t you agree?
As Covid-19 demonstrated, a pandemic is a trillion-dollar problem, and mitigating this challenge should not depend on volunteers. We need a corps of professionals from every country and region, and the world needs to find a way to compensate them for the time they spend preparing for and responding to transnational threats. They must be able to deploy teams of professionals on standby to help control outbreaks where they start.
Bill! Don’t you know that many of the paid nurses and doctors and fireman lost their jobs for not complying with vaccine mandates? And I never heard about the volunteers you blame for the woes of the pandemic. That’s a pretty wild justification for hiring mercenaries.
And transnational threats? Like failing to support teachers or AI bots replacing doctors, lawyers, and architects? Or GMO seeds and the chemicals needed to grow them. Those are real threats that you’ve engendered.
And you should know better; soldiers who get paid to follow orders usually make more trouble than they are worth.
Why does the world need to find a way to compensate standby teams of thugs when you could just make donations to make a truly better world? As we used to say back in the neighborhood, put your money where your mouth is.
Wait a second, I just realized what your motto is; you put your mouth where your money is!
So go ahead, share more of your secret agenda.
To be successful, the Emergency Corps must build on existing networks of experts and be led by people like the heads of national public health agencies and their leads for epidemic response. It’s difficult for any one country to stop a disease from spreading on its own; many of the most meaningful actions require coordination from the highest levels of government. The world needs to prepare for a multiple-alarm fire, the type of fire response that requires different units and departments.
Just stop right there, you’re deviating and maybe taking this fire analogy too far. This is a distraction, we might lose our readers. Let’s focus…
Where were these existing networks of experts over the last three years? And why would we rely on the heads of national public health agencies that totally succumbed to the pressures of Big Pharma? These criminals ensured that no medications were approved for the treatment of Covid so that emergency authorizations could be given for their poisonous vaccines. You know that hasn’t changed.
Who are you trying to fool Bill? But If you need to stick with fire-fighting, maybe it will help us really understand what you are getting at.
These kinds of blazes are rare, but when they happen, there’s no time to waste. Local responders need to know they can count on a surge of well-trained firefighters who will work seamlessly together. They can’t arrive on the scene only to discover that their hoses don’t fit on the closest hydrant or that they have a completely different approach from the other units. The Emergency Corps will make sure countries and health systems are coordinated in advance of an emergency, so that everything runs smoothly during times of crisis.
I see it all now. Your hired guns; the international health military police force will be empowered to stamp out emergencies before they happen by keeping a lid on things. And of course, they would ensure that if another pandemic does occur, there won’t be any protests, anti-vaxers, or doctors who get in the way of mandates and lockdowns.
What else would they do exactly? Bill, tell us the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
This is where practice makes perfect. By running drills and simulations, the corps will uncover the areas where countries and leaders are not ready and help us fix them now. It’s important to practice for lots of different types of pathogens, too. Human respiratory diseases are a huge concern, because they can go global so quickly. (Just look at how fast Covid spread.) But they are far from the only threat. What if the next pandemic-potential pathogen spreads through surface droplets? Or if it is sexually transmitted like H.I.V.? What if it’s the result of bioterrorism? Each scenario requires a different response, and the Emergency Corps can help the world get ready for all of them.
Hmm, all we will have to do is worry about getting sick. Your guys will protect us by running drills and simulations — would that include simulated pathogens? Won’t you also need some gain of function labs? How about camps to isolate those who don’t cooperate?
Bill, this is now sounding very mean, dangerous, and expensive. Wait a moment, isn’t that just what you want? You’re always setting up complicated stuff that doesn’t really work but makes you lots of money, cause it always needs updates and fixing (like your computers and systems). And wouldn’t it be fun if an army was enforcing your skewed view of reality?
Maybe while doing that, they could also force farmers to buy your GMO seeds and toxic chemicals and sell your fake food. This isn’t about protecting us, it’s all to protect you.
You’ve spent your whole career around this model of manipulation and profiteering and now you want an army to enforce it.
But what if you get caught?
We can’t afford to get caught flat-footed again. The world must take action now to make sure Covid-19 becomes the last pandemic, and one of the biggest moves we can make is to support the world’s principal health experts — the W.H.O. — and invest in the Global Health Emergency Corps so it can live up to its full potential.
I think you actually mean, “if I don’t invest, it’s because I’m flat-footed” — your approach to screwing up seed, animal, and human genetics.
I also notice you keep reminding us of our firm fiduciary duty to finance and fund. And who should we invest in? The W.H.O., who hasn’t had a hoot for helping real health or healing half a hiccup. (apologies to Dr. Seuss).
Well billionaire Bill, this impossible craziness does sound like you’re selling us some new world order. Are you done? I don’t know if we can handle any more requirements.
This will require two things: First, public health leaders from all countries need to participate. The next pandemic could emerge anywhere, and so the Emergency Corps must have expertise from every corner of the globe, including from national disease and research agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Second, we need wealthier countries to step up and provide funding to make this a reality.
This reality you speak of so fondly is very risky. You are saying the experts at the CDC and NIH need very special funding that will make them smart and ready for anything. Now, why would you continue to believe that these compromised agencies should be given lots of money — and international roles in preventing disease — when (as I keep saying) they have no record they can do so domestically and have failed so miserably?
This really is getting tiring Billy, just tell us what you really believe.
I believe the W.H.O. remains our best tool for helping countries stop disease outbreaks, and the Global Health Emergency Corps will represent massive progress toward a pandemic-free future. The question is whether we have the foresight to invest in that future now before it’s too late.
There you go again Billy-boy; foresight to invest? What stocks should we buy?, pharmaceuticals? test kits? masks? body armor?
No, we won’t invest in that hostile and sterile future you describe. No thanks.
When will you and your pals recognize you are not the good guys? Start with realizing that you are promoting medical fascism.
Here’s what we all know about what’s needed for good health; it’s a natural and peaceful lifestyle — and a clean atmosphere and diet. And when we are not well, our medical autonomy is essential.
We need to invest in and invigorate effective health care — without reliance on international armies of enforcers or pharmaceutical giants with heinous motives. Doctors must have the ability to help patients when they are ill without the oversight of profiteers or compromised government agencies.
You probably will never get it; I just have a hard time understanding why the New York Times allows you to grandstand and spread this outright corporate propaganda.
Just kidding — of course I do. It’s all about your money.
Thing is, he doesnt realise his analogy falls apart right at the start: " As we know all too well from Covid, an outbreak in one town can quickly spread across an entire country and then around the world."
Escept it didn't, it popped up almost simultaneously in places remote from each other. Well, that's what the They say.
So continuing with an analogy of a fire which spreads contiguously for disease progression which spontaneously occurs in isolation simply shows his utter ignorance and we should all stop right there. And no, it wasn't people travelling which caused 'it' to 'spread'. According to the data...
I know, we know it is all wrong and nonsense. Continuing to read big bill's nonsense it is actually very funny. Except the bottom line the They try and push is anything but.
Thanks David for making my day :D
(edited for Misspelling David)
I represented Gates back when he was the universally-hated richest man in the world. He was an amoral autistic sociopath. He retired in shame and started his Foundation to rehabilitate his reputation and now he is the greatest arch-villain in modern history. It's no surprise his Foundation is as evil as he. The only surprise is that too many people suddenly think he is a hero.