Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it
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In an [1]opinion piece for Tortoise Media, His Billness laid out a three-part plan for eliminating the grim threat of coronavirus and, unsurprisingly, it all hinges on those pesky vaccines.
Gates reckoned that likely more than one vaccine will be available by the early part of next year, but dealing with the pandemic would first require the capacity to make enough of the stuff, and then ensure a global reach for dosages.
"Right now," he said, "most of the world's supply of COVID-19 vaccines is slated to go to rich countries." Those countries at the other end of the scale are not so lucky: "As things stand now, these countries will be able to cover, at most, 14 per cent of their people."
Taking the ethics and morality of the situation aside, the result, according to Gates, is the virus continuing its rampage through large chunks of the world and wealthy nations risking reinfection because, after all, not everybody will leap at the chance of a needle stuffed full of special sauce. "The only way to eliminate the threat of this disease somewhere is to eliminate it everywhere," insisted Gates.
"New modeling from Northeastern University helps illustrate what will happen if vaccine distribution is so unequal. The researchers there analyzed two scenarios. In one, vaccines are given to countries based on their population size. Then there’s another scenario that approximates what’s happening now: 50 rich countries get the first 2 billion doses of vaccine. In this scenario, the virus continues to spread unchecked for four months in three quarters of the world. And almost twice as many people die."
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"This would be a huge moral failing. A vaccine can make Covid-19 a preventable disease, and no one should die from a preventable disease simply because the country they live in can’t afford to secure a manufacturing deal," he added.
As well as upping manufacturing capacity (and noting the unusual sight of pharmaceutical companies sharing facilities), Gates also called for more funding to pay for both the vaccines and infrastructure to get doses to patients. "There's a lot to be learned from the ongoing effort to eradicate polio," he said. And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation knows [3]a lot about polio.
Gates has been forced in recent months [4]to deny that his support for vaccine research is actually a cover for something altogether more nefarious. Lurking within the recent [5]Windows XP source code leak were all manner of conspiracy videos, and social media posts concerning Gates' involvement in the spread of the virus have fanned the flames licking up those 5G ( [6]or, indeed, 4G ) masts. When asked [7]in a recent interview if he wanted to use vaccines to implant microchips into people, the billionaire responded simply: "No."
Indeed, in terms of tracking people and controlling their moods, the social media giants are already way ahead of the game.
Gates went on to point out that building the system to identify and eliminate COVID-19 regardless of a nation's wealth will also give the world a running start when the next pandemic rolls around.
"The self-interested thing and the altruistic thing," he said, "are one and the same." ®
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Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
That's like putting the empathy chip in Bender...
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Surely he can already control all those people who have been vaccinated against polio?
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Since some of us were vaccinated against polio before Gates was born, that seems unlikely. But then again, if you believe 5G causes COVID-19, this may not be a wall too high to climb.
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
> some of us were vaccinated against polio before Gates was born
Don't you know he has a time machine??? (Sputter, drool)
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Bill Gates is a Reptilian Overlord: he is thousands, possibly millions of years old. He may have originated outside, and essentially before, the beginning of our universe. An alternative theory, held by a few (myself included) is that the universe is 23,714 days old, and its origin was therefore coeval with His birth. Bill Gates created the universe in fact: all 'history' before the 28th October 1955 is merely a sort of painting on the world. Your polio vaccination did not really happen, you just think it did. In either case, there is certainly no useful sense in which anything could have been said to 'happen before Bill Gates was born': that is merely delusion and fantasy.
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
That explains so much...
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Well, speaking as the actual Reptilian Overlord who did in fact create this Universe as a toy (I am only a wee lad of 14B years old) about 5 minutes ago, the issue with these conspiracy theories is that I already determine everything that happens in this Universe including it's backstory. (Well, not exactly as I used a template.) But believing that when I've constructed the Universe to not provide proof of that still makes all of those conspiracy folks illogical unhappy nut jobs.
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
I already determine everything that happens in this Universe including it's backstory. (Well, not exactly as I used a template .)
Universe As Code? Universial DevOps?
Put that Covid bug fix in the release pipeline, then!
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
"Put that Covid bug fix in the release pipeline, then!"
Why? You're not real, nor are any of the rest of you.
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Reality as a Service.
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
On the subject of US Presidents.....
Read Ikon by Graham Masterton and then look at past presidents.... it's scary.
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Putin has already done that ...
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
No doubt a 4 bit microcontroller (for anyone who remembers them). Clocked verrrrry slooooooooooow
Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Will he please please please pretty please install one in Donald Trump!
Already done - and the people who designed the hardware and wrote the software to control him going onto work on the 737-MAX MCAS and Tesla AutoPilot systems. Probably
Re: Will he please please please pretty please install one in Donald Trump!
sir, you must have heard the term "backup" and "multiple redundancies"? One chip is fake news, two is a move in the right direction. Only first step of many...
"The self-interested thing and the altruistic thing," he said, "are one and the same."
Huh? Has someone forgotten to disconnect [1]this thing before they left for home?
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/06/in_brief_ai/
I really disliked Gates when he was head of Microsoft, because of all the underhanded tactics the company used against rivals, but fair play to him for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
You're no more likely to "rid the world of corona virus" than you are to rid the world of influenca -- or for that matter, stupidity and ignorance by institutions, "do-gooders" or in general.
Just to finely remind people: if you have a "common cold" you have either got an adeno-, noro- or cononavirus mucking you up.
And just like flu, any of these come in milder and more severe forms. This one happens to be more severe (but still eminently treatable) but equally impossible to eradicate.
Well, given that smallpox was eliminated, and polio is (and has been for a while) almost eliminated, I could believe the possibility that COVID-19 would be eliminated. Stupidity and ignorance being eliminated - not so much.
Not the same thing
Smallpox and polio vaccines confer permanent immunity. So does catching the disease and recovering from it, but that is a somewhat risky way of immunizing people.
Virus's like those for flu and similar infections convey only short term immunity. Currently it is not clear how long the immunity lasts after exposure to Corvid19 but there is anecdotal evidence that some people have had it twice. Given that has only been active for less than a year this is not good news.
Remind me again, what's the risk you'll get smallpox?
Depends on the virus, how quickly it evolves and how big a population have it.
Looks like we were lucky with smallpox that it didn't manage to out evolve a century of relatively ineffective vaccines.
In recent history the main danger for catching smalpox was from a research facility that held stores of smallpox.virus
re: stupidity and ignorance by institutions, "do-gooders" or in general.
Which one are you?
The origin of conspiracy
Erm , please correct me if i'm wrong, but the back-story to the conspiracy goes like this:
Records of vaccine are hard to access and maintain, particularly in poor countries.
the "BCG" is an easy one, because it leaves a scar, and doctors, A&E can tell immediately.
There was a thought to tattoo the vaccinated, but that is too much like branding cattle.
There was a thought to use a glass transponder - much like with pets and farm animals, they can be read/write and be updated with all vaccinations, allergies, blood group - the stuff you might need in an emergency. It didn't get far, there are nefarious uses, it's a big privacy (whatever that is these days?) problem,
The only real proposal that Bill Gates looked at was a sub-dermal laser barcode, of some sort, invisible, not like branding, and carries only a byte or two of info.
I don't see a problem with that - but sure, if it were a unique barcode per person, that has abuse potential.
This is the "Bill Gates wants to barcode all of humanity for his own evil purposes" conspiracy.
The implantable glass transponder is inevitably viewed as a mind-control device, thanks X-files, darkening the conspiracy further.
Crazy thing is that all the anti-vaxxers are on Facebook, which is an actual mind-control device and is bent on all manner of evil purposes - it does whatever money wants it to do.
Re: The origin of conspiracy
> Crazy thing is that all the anti-vaxxers are on Facebook, which is an actual mind-control device and is bent on all manner of evil purposes.
And yet if you or I tell them that they look at us like we're the crazy ones.
First prove your vaccine actually works.
Relax - Putin says he has one and he tried it on his daughter. I read it on the internet.
Re: re: First prove your vaccine actually works.
So you would be good with a vaccine developed in secret in Russia?
Imported solely by TrumpDrug Corp?
Approved in 24hours by the FDA, under its new boss Trump Jnr ?
Not an anti-vaxxer by any means but I'm not planning to be first in the queue to inject bleach and sunshine
I think what you mean might be something to do with Phase1, 2 & 3 trials. The sort of thing that's happening now and is an essential step (except maybe in Russia*) before a vaccine is certified for general use.
* I don't think it's unlikely Trump would get his way on this in the US.
Does the plan include
The rich evading less tax to help adequately fund national health systems run by democratically elected governments?
Re: Does the plan include
This particular plan doesn't, as it's not its purpose.
But he also has [1]plans for that
[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bill-gates-calls-tax-hike-wealthy-new-years-eve-blog-2020-1-1028791394
Re: Does the plan include
In the same way that I have plans to become a humble, virtuous person, so long as everyone else does too.
Or he could, you know, just pay
Oh ok then ... :P
'When asked in a recent interview if he wanted to use vaccines to implant microchips into people, the billionaire responded simply: "No." '
Well he would wouldn't he...
He contracted Dr Doofenshmirtz for the micro chipping
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Microchipping
So a vaccine is just a way to get a microchip into you is it? To track your movements and keep control of you?
No it's not and I'll give you a few very good reasons why
1 - You're really not that interesting. the government doesn't really care about tracking you except statistically as part of large groups. Individually you really don't matter very much
2 - It doesn't need a chip to track you. Your mobile phone apps, Alexa spy speaker, your credit cards, loyalty cards etc all do a really good job of tracking you. And best of all You pay for it willingly and sign up to be tracked.
3 -You're being controlled? You are the one taking advice from a random stranger running a conspiracy page on the most privacy destroying platform ever conceived. Why not go out and read some real books on virology and electromagnetism and work out for yourself if 5G and viruses are likely to be linked? If anything you're already being controlled through your stupidity and laziness. Why do you think the Russians and Chinese funnel money to disruptive conspiracy groups?
Hello The Register
why do you put ® marks at the end of a quoted phrase? as per the US trade mark and patent office, you cannot trade mark a phrase.
Re: Hello The Register
What does the "murcan freedom of speech" law says about using the Extended ASCII code characters?
Re: Hello The Register
"why do you put ® marks at the end of a quoted phrase?"
I see you're fairly new here. You'll get used to it.
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Every article written by a Reg journalist ends with an ® -- it's just our way of signing off an article and signalling that's all to be read, nothing more. It dates back to magazine days.
And it's R... for Register
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Re: Hello The Register
They do it at the end of every article. Would have thought © would be more appropriate though.
"Would have thought © would be more appropriate though."
We're the Register, not the Copywriter.
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I often
wonder just how you'll get chipped when you get vaccinated.
Partly because we're already tracked to the nth degree already, but mostly because of the size of chip compared to the needle that delivers the vaccine.
You dont believe me? ... goto your local vets and see what size needle injects the ID chip into your pet... then ask why the vets prefer to have the patients sedated before they do it.... because a huge ass needle hurts like f**k
Whereas a vaccine needle does'nt hurt that much (unless you're a wuss)
If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior
Will he please please please pretty please install one in Donald Trump!