Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates voiced opposition to vaccine mandates and passes during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos earlier this month.
During a panel titled “Preparing for the Next Pandemic”, the Microsoft co-founder said that when it comes to vaccine mandates and passes, “If you have breakthrough infections, what’s the point?”
Gates explains that what’s really needed are “infection blocking and long duration” vaccines that can block community transmission for a long period of time. Without those, he sees no point in mandates and passports.
It’s been evident for some time that Gates has been increasingly disappointed with the performance of Covid vaccines for stopping transmission, and unlike many political leaders around the world has not continued to press for these particular failed policies. He doesn’t appear to appreciate that the kind of sterilising immunity he has in mind is very unlikely to be possible through vaccination for common respiratory pathogens with pandemic potential like influenza and coronaviruses.
Hopefully, Gates’s opposition will increase pressure on the U.S. and other states, which continue to discriminate against the unvaccinated including, in the U.S.’s case, by refusing permission to enter the country.
Separately, a paper opposing vaccine mandates and passports authored by a group of scientists and academics from Oxford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and other leading universities has now been formally published. The authors include two funded by the Wellcome Trust, a major funder of medical research with close ties to the pharmaceutical industry led by Sir Jeremy Farrar. The Daily Sceptic covered this surprising paper back in February when it was first put out in pre-print form, and it is good to see the final version appearing now in BMJ Global Heath.
The authors are clear that current mandatory vaccine policies are “scientifically questionable and are likely to cause more societal harm than good”. They continue:
Restricting people’s access to work, education, public transport and social life based on COVID-19 vaccination status impinges on human rights, promotes stigma and social polarisation, and adversely affects health and well-being. Current policies may lead to a widening of health and economic inequalities, detrimental long-term impacts on trust in government and scientific institutions, and reduce the uptake of future public health measures, including COVID-19 vaccines as well as routine immunisations. Mandating vaccination is one of the most powerful interventions in public health and should be used sparingly and carefully to uphold ethical norms and trust in institutions.
Hear, hear.
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Teachers.
Indoctrination too!
“The most telling quote was elicited from one demonstrator by Sky News: “We had a situation today where Israel is attacking Gaza. Why is it that they are not allowing an eight-year-old child to wear the badge of his homeland, of his heritage?”
The family should be due a visit from Border Force with a letter explaining that the family are to be returned to their homeland as a matter of urgency and that they are to pack their bags and immediately board the waiting paddy wagon for a trip to the airport.
We have no business keeping people in this country who believe they belong elsewhere. Just think about the damage to their mental health.
The headmaster, Toby Spence (a brainwashed dreamer) says “if we don’t have a planet to live on”——————–Are you having a laugh mate? No planet because of a little extra CO2? Even the IPCC admit their worst case scenario’s are not ever going to occur. Our kids are indulging in all of this nonsense because of idiots like you filling their heads full of junk.
Brain washed dreamer is a bit kind imo. He’s more like Hitler youths Reichjugendfuhrer, he’s actively brain washing kids with bad/mad ideas.
Diane Reay, a Left-wing sociologist and former teacher “also thought children were justified in striking:”
Teachers are noted for never letting a strike opportunity go to waste whether its them or the children.
Children going on strike from school is an example of “participatory” democracy and not truancy aided and abetted by teachers wanting a day or two off work.
Very well observed regarding teachers propensity to skive.
Thank you
The problem with teachers is that they never get beyond the learning level of the last classes they taught. If their usual classes are eleven year olds you effectively end up conversing with an eleven year old.
It’s easier to be a socialist. You just keep on heading down the same road————-To Serfdom. —————Funny that you never hear the social justice people harp on about there not being enough white people playing basketball. Clearly the black people are discriminating against the whites and are all “racist”. ——-Actually no, just like it is mostly white people that play tennis. But despite the perfectly obvious, socialists will continue to insist more women should be welders so they can socially engineer their “equality”. Ofcourse there would need to be so many trans welders in there as well.
Thank you once again Mr Tucker fir a terrific article.
What I don’t get is if there’s known terrorists, supporters and extremist groups with links to terrorists in existence, and supporting a terrorist organization allegedly carries a hefty prison sentence, why are countless people filling the streets, week after week, who blatantly show their support for Hamas but the police only bother themselves with the people holding an ‘anti-Hamas’ placard, Israeli or St George flag? Where’s the deterrent? So the law states one thing but the police, whose job it is to enforce the law, demonstrate something different entirely, therefore it’s all just massively farcical and pointless isn’t it? Especially as these extremists and criminals just get to avoid deportation anyway because ”human rights”. It’s all one great big p*ss-take and seemingly nobody’s on our side, the Home Office, police, judicial system and politicians are all traitors and national security is a mere illusion. The government have seen to that;
”The pro-Hamas protests in London are not, apparently, as organic and spontaneous as their organizers would like them to seem.
At least four groups with links to Hamas are reportedly behind several of the marches: The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the Palestinian Forum for Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Friends of al-Aqsa. The same groups were behind the largest protest so far, on November 11 in London, where it is estimated that around 300,000 people participated.
Supporting Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK, could lead to up to 14 years in prison.
The MAB was co-founded and directed for almost a decade by Muhammad Kathem Sawalha, who in the late 1980s was a Hamas leader in Samaria in the West Bank, where he reportedly “masterminded” Hamas’s terrorist strategy. He fled to the UK in the late 1990s and, incredibly, obtained British citizenship, despite being on Israel’s most-wanted list.”
……And all of the kids of people involved in these groups have to go to school somewhere, so it makes me wonder just how many of these kids bunking off to protest have direct familial links to terrorism in London or anywhere in the UK;
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20264/hamas-in-london
In Liberal Progressive land some people are more equal than others, and some are more hate filled than others. Spout of about a Muslim though and your feet won’t touch the ground
Why Are So Many British Schoolchildren Going on ‘School Strike’ to Protest Against Israel?
Because hard left teachers with the full assent of a Conservative government, have brainwashed them.
Do we have an Education Secretary?
Seriously, the dreaded UNWRA may as well just run these schools as well and have done. Could it be any worse?
Maybe children in the UK who see on their screens Palestinian children of their own age shot, mutilated and stuck under rubble from Israeli aggression for the past 75 years resonates with their empathic tendencies?
But no empathy for hostages and raped girls?
can’t you have both? Hamas attacks are horrible so is the total destruction of Gaza.
So do you have both?
The hostages on their screens appeared well looked after and there were no images on their screens of so-called “raped girls”.
There were plenty of images of Palestinian children shot by Israeli snipers, dead Palestinian babies and the limbs of dead Palestinian children exposed under rubble after Israeli indiscriminate bombing.
“appeared well looked after”——-Just keep believing what you want mate. I couldn’t care less.
“Those who were released earlier stated that Hamas treated the hostages with respect. 85-year-old Israelis Yosheved Lifshitz and 79-year-old Nurit Cooper were released by Hamas due to their health conditions. Yosheved Lifshitz, who was released, said that he was treated in a friendly manner and that there was someone there to look after everything.”
https://www.archyde.com/israeli-grandmother-held-hostage-by-hamas-fighter-viral-photo-exposes-unexpected-connection/
If you couldn’t care less then stop replying with your inane comments.
It’s what children don’t see on their screens that would bring them into disenchanted adulthood all too quickly and reduce their susceptibility to adult manipulation for their own causes.
Children certainly understand when they themselves are bombed. But to encourage them to take a stand on geopolitics is the same adult cynicism that grooms them for the sex trade.
I’m not necessarily referring to “TV” screens as the main stream media are the chief purveyors of a one sided narrative to brainwash the masses in one direction dictated by the global elite.
I’m referring to “their screens” on devices that pick up raw footage which is uncensored so people can make up their own minds.
Young people are savvy enough to find or see alternative sources via the internet on their mobile ‘phones.
I agree with you that those who don’t find alternative sources, including adults, are prey to manipulation.
You mean those who see on their screens the “Palestinian’s” staged agit-prop videos disseminated so enthusiastically by the BBC, ITV etc.
Only a complete moron blinded by Islamophobia and racism would believe they were staged.
Because a large minority of ‘UK’ children are Muslim?
And the non Muslims are brainwashed?
The trouble is that children in schools (and at universities) have been groomed for much longer than we realise, and especially so in the last three years. All you parents who can, you need to take your children out of school and home educate them. They are being groomed in every possible way, not just about climate. And it’s a vicious circle: groomed children go on to be further groomed at university and then return to the schools as grooming teachers – what hope is there for the children?
Why? Because we spared the rod and spoilt the child.