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Tue Nov 16 21:54:31 PST 2021


> Changing Definitions

Bill Gates psyche exposed, caught admitting truth, changing definitions...



Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting On Existing COVID Vaccines

https://brownstone.org/articles/why-bill-gates-is-pivoting-on-existing-covid-vaccines/
https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1458824576775950340
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready

Does Bill Gates understand the difference between a computer virus and
a human virus?

In a surprising interview, Bill Gates said the following: “We didn’t
have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you
with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmission. We
need new ways of doing vaccines.”

It’s odd how he speaks of medicines as if they are like software. Try
it out, observe how it works. When you find a problem, put the
technicians to work. Every new iteration is an experiment. Free to try
until you finally buy. Surely over time, we’ll find the answer to the
problem of blocking or blotting out pathogens.

Software. Hardware. Applications. Subscriptions! This is how he
thinks, as if the human body and its deadly dance with viruses is a
recent problem and we are only at the very beginning of finding
solutions, without realizing that this reality has been present for
the whole of human existence and that we had tremendous success in the
course of the 20th century minimizing bad pathogenic outcomes without
his guidance and benefaction.

Essentially, he has long promoted the idea that traditional public
health praxis was for the analog age; in the digital age, we need
government planning, advanced technology, mass surveillance, and the
ability to control human beings the way a software company manages
personal computers.

Most people have no idea how such a rich and smart person could be so
dim on essential matters of complex cell biology. Hacking the human
body, improving it with uploads and downloads, is surely a more
ominous challenge than inventing and managing man-made computers. So
herein I try to present the reasons for Gates’s way of thinking.

The relative deficiencies of this vaccine to stop infection and
transmission are now well known. There is some reason to believe that
they achieve that much at least for the vulnerable population.

What can we make of Gates’s passing statement: “We need a new way of
doing vaccines”?

Let’s travel back in time to examine his career at Microsoft and his
shepherding into existence the Windows operating system. By the early
1990s, it was being billed as the essential brain of the personal
computer. Security considerations against viruses were not part of its
design, however, simply because not that many people were using the
internet so the threat level was low. The browser was not invented
until 1995. Security of personal computers was not really a question
that Microsoft had dealt with.

The neglect of this consideration turned into a disaster. By the early
2000s, there were thousands of versions of malware (also called bugs)
floating around the internet and infecting computers running Windows
worldwide. They ate hard drive. They sucked out data. They forced ads
on people. They invaded your space with strange popups. They were
wrecking the user experience and threatening the future of an entire
industry.

The problem of malware was dubbed viruses. It was a metaphor. Not
real. It’s not clear that Gates ever really understood that. Computer
viruses aren’t anything like biological viruses. To maintain a clean
and functioning hard drive, you want to avoid and block a computer
virus at all costs. Any exposure is bad exposure. The fix is always
avoidance until eradication.

With biological viruses, we have evolved to confront them through
exposure and let our immune system develop to take them on. A body
that blocks all pathogens without immunity is a weak one that will die
at the first exposure, which will certainly come at some point in a
modern society. An immune system that confronts most viruses and
recovers grows stronger. That’s a gigantic difference that Gates never
understood.

Regardless, the advent of the army of computer pathogens fundamentally
threatened his proudest achievement. Microsoft frantically searched
for a solution, but the creativity of the malware army moved too fast
for its engineers.

Others sensed an opportunity. Companies specializing in anti-virus
software had been doing business since the 1990s but grew more
sophisticated in the early 2000s. Once the internet became fast
enough, these software packages could be updated daily. There were
ever newer companies, each with a different method and a different
marketing and pricing model.

Eventually, the problem was mostly solved on the personal computer,
but it took ten years. Even now, Microsoft’s products are less
protected than Apple’s, and Microsoft has yet to come close to
mitigating the problem of spam on its own native email client.

In short, keeping viruses out of computers constitutes the single
biggest professional struggle in Gates’ life. The lesson he learned
was that pathogen blocking and eradication was always the path
forward. What he never really understood is that the word virus was
merely a metaphor for unwanted and unwelcome computer code. The
analogy breaks down in real life.

After finally stepping back from Microsoft’s operations, Gates started
dabbling in other areas, as newly rich people tend to do. They often
imagine themselves especially competent at taking on challenges that
others have failed at simply because of their professional successes.
Also by this point in his career, he was only surrounded by sycophants
who would not interrupt his descent into crankiness.

And what subject did he pounce on? He would do to the world of
pathogens what he did at Microsoft: he would stamp them out! He began
with malaria and other issues and eventually decided to take on them
all. And what was his solution? Of course: antivirus software. What is
that? It is vaccines. Your body is the hard drive that he would save
with his software-style solution.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I noted that Gates was pushing hard
for lockdowns. His foundation was now funding research labs the world
over with billions of dollars, plus universities and direct grants to
scientists. He was also investing heavily in vaccine companies.

Early on in the pandemic, to get a sense of Gates’s views, I watched
his TED talks. I began to realize something astonishing. He knew much
less than anyone could discover by reading a book on cell biology from
Amazon. He couldn’t even give a basic 9th-grade-level explanation of
viruses and their interaction with the human body. And yet here he was
lecturing the world about the coming pathogen and what should be done
about it. His answer is always the same: more surveillance, more
control, more technology.

Once you understand the simplicity of his core confusions, everything
else he says makes sense from his point of view. He seems forever
stuck in the fallacy that the human being is a cog in a massive
machine called society that cries out for his managerial and
technological leadership to improve to the point of operational
perfection.

The rich, their pretenses, their influence: sometimes charming,
sometimes beneficent, sometimes deeply malicious. Gates’s influence
over epidemiology has been tremendously baneful, but it’s unclear
whether he even knows it. In fact, I don’t think that he does. In some
ways, that’s even more dangerous.

Readers might be quick to point out that Gates has benefited
enormously from lockdowns and vaccine mandates, both seeing his former
company grow to enormous size and from his stock ownership in vaccine
makers. So yes, his ignorance has been rewarded handsomely. As for his
influence on the world, history will not likely be forgiving.


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