Posted on 05/09/2022 10:42:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bill Gates isn’t an immunologist and he doesn’t even play one on TV.
But the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has immersed himself in the study of the world’s problems and donated billions of dollars to tackle the scourge of malaria in Africa through his philanthropic foundation. So when he speaks, people listen, which makes what he said last week about COVID-19 interesting.
“It wasn’t until early February, when I was in a meeting, that experts of the foundation, said ‘there’s no way'” that COVID-19 could have been contained, he said.
“At that point, we didn’t really understand the fatality rate. We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate, and that it’s a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like the flu, although it’s a bit different than that,” Gates said.
He later hedged a bit, saying Americans need to stay vigilant as he criticized the initial response to the virus. “That was a pretty scary period, where the world didn’t go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast as it needed to,” he said.
Gates also had something to say about the latest variant of the virus and the efficacy of vaccines. “Once Omicron comes along, the vaccine is not reducing transmission, hardly at all, particularly about three or four months after you take the vaccine,” he said.
His comments came after top officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said much the same thing, that COVID-19 is now akin to the flu.
“FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock and the agency’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote that COVID-19 will be in circulation for the foreseeable future and must be accepted as another common virus in the Journal of the American Medical Association,” the Daily Caller reported. “Like with influenza, this new reality will likely require annual COVID-19 shots to be tailored around the most threatening strains of the virus, the officials wrote.”
“Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics, could blunt the effects of future outbreaks. Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal,” the officials wrote. “It will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates in consultation with the [FDA].”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.
Well, Bill…….. DUH!
This guy is the biggest idiot.
Then why push the Vax on children, Teens, babies and young adults? Dufus.
February of what year? I didn’t figure out the non-containment until late January or early February . . . of 2020. And it was likely March or April . . . of 2020 . . . that it became evident that being old and overweight or in really bad health when combined with COVID led to further reduction in one’s life expectancy.
If one picks up on the in February 2020 one may be sharp, in February of 2021, one might be a little slow. If February of 2022, well, you just might be a Democrat, College educated, an Idiot, or a Politician. But I repeat myself.
So after all the government mandated crap we have been put through and are still going through... I guess better late than never. But do we get an apology? Instead he is presenting this like it was something that he and his experts just figured out. They would not listen or “follow the science” for over two years.
Maybe Bill should reexamine the global warming hoax that he has been pushing for years? He might be able to learn something about that as well.
So now they are done using it and the people are sick of hearing about it and masks and vaccines. It’s now a flu. When Trump said that he was shredded.
What an evil monster raised by Planned Parenthood scum... evil begets evil, at least in this instance!
And the IFR was grossly inflated by 1.fraudulent testing and CDC directing that if someone had “suspicious” respiratory illness symptoms Covid could be assumed. and 2 counting as a Covid death any person who died with a positive test or who was suspected of having Covid. Hospitals and testing labs made out like bandits harvesting Covid $ voted by our criminal Congress. And, contra Gates, they knew the virus was a mild flu from the beginning, which is why they ramped up a regime of fraudulent testing and fraudulent death reporting.
Where are the FR Covidiots? Shouldn’t they be apologizing for poor critical thinking skills and falling for the government/business fear porn? They are probably too busy whooping up war fever over the Ukraine.
I think Covid was a strain of “flu”. They couldn’t tell the dif with testing and flu death rates went almost to zero during the “Covid” pandemic. Flu always kills the elderly. I think we were “had” in a terrible and planned way.
No s**t Sherlock.
That’s not what you were saying two years ago you mendacious prick.
LOL!
It’s like he’s apologizing to the world.
Gates is one of the UN Agenda 21 types who wants 95% of the rest of us dead and those remaining as his loyal serfs.
That's why many here call it the "Plandemic".
Hunt him down.
After all his death and doom comments, this is what he has
finally boiled it down to. (We did that a long time ago)
In a sane world, the media would relegate this guy to the
farthest point in a football stadium, then the interviews
would conducted as far away as possible.
His opinion isn’t worth “_”.
Heads on pikes are the only reasonable apology for what has transpired.
His entire career and fortune is based on his being a ruthless SOB with no respect for those he robbed. Now he wants to off 80% of the people of Earth with his complete BS about these poisons being effective. Yeah sure, they will work, this time.
KINDA LIKE ZUCKERBURG..................
Because that's all that left - they killed all the elderly.
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