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Bill Gates says Covid risks have 'dramatically reduced' but another pandemic is coming

Cardinal said:
It'll be a while though, because the universe would be a dick if it threw down another pandemic too soon after this one.
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THe last pandemic was in 2009.. , and the mer-s scare was in 2003. Because of plane travel, it's happening more frequently than in the past, but the health/economic impact of this one hadn't been for 100 years. The chances of them happening are greater because of global travel
 
"No, Bill, there will never be another disease that exists!"
-Very smart internet people
 
Schism said:
Bill Gates is hasn't decided which pathogen to unleash just yet.

I suspect he'll get together with Fauci, Democrats, and the Chinese to release the best one.

Plus it all depends on if Trump runs in '24.
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I take it that Trump was the best useful idiot they could have dreamed of to make this all happen.
 
Mongidig said:
I take it that Trump was the best useful idiot they could have dreamed of to make this all happen.
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Well when undertaking a worldwide conspiracy isn't the best choice to lead it a disorganized blabbermouth with no credibility?
 
Cardinal said:
It'll be a while though, because the universe would be a dick if it threw down another pandemic too soon after this one.
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Timing isn't the issue, except in the sense that a lot of people in the world are living on very little money - for food, shelter, health care. A stressed population is less healthy, more prone to infectious diseases. Add war, famine, poor government, crop failures, collapsing economies - a lot of people - the old & young especially - are more vulnerable. Even in the West, people on fixed incomes are having to economize, prioritize which bills to pay & which to put off.

The pandemic has stressed health systems, & routine health maintenance visits are getting harder & harder to schedule. We'll have to play catch up on all this, & the health systems in the US are bleeding employees. The current trends for health care in the US are unsustainable.
 
RAMOSS said:
I will also say the now global interaction between countries due to planes, and world wide commerce make them more likely.
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The more we interact the more we dilute virus's potency consequently making us safer.
 
RAMOSS said:
One thing that is common between the western world and china is the exploitation of the poor population, with the development of an oligarchy. While the population is contributing to the levels of pollution, currently we do have the food resources to feed people. It's just that there is the inequity and the lack of a living wage. Mind you, decreasing the world population wouldn't be a bad idea.
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I agree we should explore a few herd thinning options...
I am thinking along the line of doing a little bloodletting
from top to bottom, you know, like the old trickle-down theory...

Even as I suggest this abominable plan,
I myself am closer to the top than to the bottom...
But I am willing to pay good money to watch the greedy bastards squirm...
-peace

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XDU said:
If his message is that simple, then why did it warrant becoming newsworthy?
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If you don't want to engage with responses, why do you ask questions?
 
JasperL said:
If you don't want to engage with responses, why do you ask questions?
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Are you saying Gates gave his statement to be deliberately disengaging to get away with vagueness that could be here or there?
 
XDU said:
Are you saying Gates gave his statement to be deliberately disengaging to get away with vagueness that could be here or there?
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No.
 
Chomsky said:
Besides being a smart guy, ....
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He's not a smart guy, but he is a bully.

He bought QDOS for $30,000 and as part of the contract, agreed to employ the creator of QDOS as a consultant then Welshed on the deal.

Because Gates wasn't smart enough to understand QDOS, and because none of the idiots he hired to mess with it understood it, there were a lot of idiosyncracies introduced by Gates into MSDOS.

Those idiosyncracies were called "virus."

For example, if you told the system to write 0 bytes to a file, then wherever the file pointer was (on the floppy disk, hard disk or hard drive) it would truncate that file.

So, I could write a few bytes of code telling the system that whenever you pressed a certain key on your keyboard to write 0 bytes to the file, send it to you in an email, opening the email would download it on your computer, and it would screw up all the files on your discs after a few hours of use.

Windows? Gates didn't invent that. He bought it. Specifically, he bought it from the Software Group.

I was using Windows before Windows existed. It was a powerful software program called Enable that ran on QDOS.

So, I'm at TRADOC HQ and I just finished up the TOE for Division '86 as part of the AirLand Battle 2000 doctrine.

I open up a WordPerfect-style doc to use as my target doc.

Then I open up "the Blurb doc", you know, security classifications, disclaimers, legal notices, etc etc, and then I open up the doc that has the text I want to send to the target doc.

See, in MSDOS, you could only have one file open at a time.

Then I open up a Lotus-style spread sheet with the TOE, another spreadsheet with the TDA, and another with all the cost estimates and financial stuff.

See, in MSDOS, you could only have one program running at a time.

Then I open up a DBA database that has all the address info for all the major commands.

Then I'd open up the telecom program.

I'd put the telephone bit into the cradle for the modem, run the mail-merge and send all the stuff from the other docs into the target doc and presto! It starts trolling through the phone numbers of all the major commands and transmits the doc through the modem.

Anyway, Gates bought it, took it off the market for 6-7 years or so and it was reincarnated as Windows, which had a lot of problems because Gates isn't nearly as smart as you think he is.
 
washunut said:
All true. That being said I am not convinced that his foundation will do a better job of expediting new vaccines anything but his guess. Great pharma companies seem to be doing the job.
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For polio and malaria? (as examples) Gates Foundation focuses on regional or global need, rather than what makes $$. So then that's where their $$ for research grants goes.

The 2 dont have to be mutually exclusive, but often are.

I dont know that the Gates Foundation funded any covid vaccine research but it's very likely they helped 'expedite' their distribution in third world regions with poor personal and community security.
 
southwest88 said:
The Gates foundation works a lot in the area of public health, health education, disease reduction/containment, immunization, clean water, etc., both domestic & international. Gates apparently is a workaholic, & he digs into the areas the foundation funds. So for a non-professional public health career administrator, he's very well versed in the areas the foundation works in.
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He also regularly sends out his current reading list. He is very well-informed on a variety of things but he also has the best experts in the world to provide him info.

I got a couple of good epidemiology books from his list. This one is an excellent read: Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky
 
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washunut said:
True, but not really relevant to this discussion. Gates is talking about speeding up coming up with a vaccine. Not talking about a cure.

As an example Pfizer made billions just by producing a vaccine created by another company.
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What kind of cure? There arent a whole lot of "cures" for viruses. Do you mean treatment?
 
Mircea said:
He's not a smart guy, but he is a bully.

He bought QDOS for $30,000 and as part of the contract, agreed to employ the creator of QDOS as a consultant then Welshed on the deal.

Because Gates wasn't smart enough to understand QDOS, and because none of the idiots he hired to mess with it understood it, there were a lot of idiosyncracies introduced by Gates into MSDOS.

Those idiosyncracies were called "virus."

For example, if you told the system to write 0 bytes to a file, then wherever the file pointer was (on the floppy disk, hard disk or hard drive) it would truncate that file.

So, I could write a few bytes of code telling the system that whenever you pressed a certain key on your keyboard to write 0 bytes to the file, send it to you in an email, opening the email would download it on your computer, and it would screw up all the files on your discs after a few hours of use.

Windows? Gates didn't invent that. He bought it. Specifically, he bought it from the Software Group.

I was using Windows before Windows existed. It was a powerful software program called Enable that ran on QDOS.

So, I'm at TRADOC HQ and I just finished up the TOE for Division '86 as part of the AirLand Battle 2000 doctrine.

I open up a WordPerfect-style doc to use as my target doc.

Then I open up "the Blurb doc", you know, security classifications, disclaimers, legal notices, etc etc, and then I open up the doc that has the text I want to send to the target doc.

See, in MSDOS, you could only have one file open at a time.

Then I open up a Lotus-style spread sheet with the TOE, another spreadsheet with the TDA, and another with all the cost estimates and financial stuff.

See, in MSDOS, you could only have one program running at a time.

Then I open up a DBA database that has all the address info for all the major commands.

Then I'd open up the telecom program.

I'd put the telephone bit into the cradle for the modem, run the mail-merge and send all the stuff from the other docs into the target doc and presto! It starts trolling through the phone numbers of all the major commands and transmits the doc through the modem.

Anyway, Gates bought it, took it off the market for 6-7 years or so and it was reincarnated as Windows, which had a lot of problems because Gates isn't nearly as smart as you think he is.
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A lot of people think that Gates 'won' all those legal battles. That's silly. You just hear about the ones he won.

One example off the top of my head: He took on Intuit when MS was building tax software to compete with it. MS came up with something but when it went to market, Intuit had bought up all the major banking rights and it was a couple of years before MS could actually sell the software as anything useful, LOL. Their legal challenges all failed.

Oh, and of course MS lost when it came to the huge European Union compliance suit (about keeping code confidential).
 
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