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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Based on what he said, I, personally, think that is encouraging. Lets be honest, we all thought he was evil. I’m not saying he isn’t. But at the very least, he shows some common sense and objectivity here.
I don’t know what else people want but for me this is definitely a good sign.
I’m not pro or anti vaccine. I didn’t take covid vaccines. As we all know they weren’t vaccines in the old sense of the word. BG is right though. They do need to focus on vaccines that actually work. Whether people want to take them or not is their choice.
“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.”
Even if they come up with vaccines that are 100% effective which block infection and have a long duration, they should *never* be mandated.
I wouldn’t believe him if he swore he was lying.
Why are so many people discussing his words as though he has any right to tell anyone what they should or should not be thinking or doing? This is ridiculous!
His new ‘vaccine’ which will be administered as a pill, will take away the need for passports. The pill contains a biological chip that informs the authorities who has taken the pill. The implications of compliance really excites the elite.
Sounds crazy right? Well I only heard it straight from the horse’s mouth:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1527521228688445442
Where’s Emerald fox when you want her/him to read something. EF has been sneering at this for months now. Well they were wrong, it was up pfizer’s sleeve all along.
As someone responds below the vid “never take prescription medication again – you don’t know what is in it”.
”HIS” new vaccine? Why the h*ll are people talking as if his words have credence?
“Image repair job” underway .
Beyond repair.
WHO pandemic treaty blocked.
I wonder if this is why Gates has stopped pushing the vaxxine mandates and passes?
Spectacular news out of Geneva points to a complete and total victory for those who opposed the amendments to the International Health Regulations proposed by the Biden administration
Official delegates from wealthy developed nations like Australia, the UK, the European Union and the United States spoke in strong support of the amendments and urged other states to join them in signing away their countries’ sovereignty.
The first sign, however, that things might not be going the globalists’ way, came when Botswana stated that they would be collectively withholding their support for the ‘reforms’, which many African members were very concerned about.
Multiple other countries also said they had reservations over the changes and would not be supporting them either.
These included Brazil, Brunei, Namibia, Bangladesh, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Iran. Brazil in particular said it would exit WHO altogether, rather than allow its population to be made subject to the new amendments.
In the end, the WHO and its wealthy nation supporters were forced to back down.
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/we-won?s=r
His vax passes were meant to link up with the WHO pandemic treaty. He would have realised last night that the vote was not going to go his way.
It is blocked ‘for now’ was my reading of it. the African nations were objecting to the “rushed nature” of it, and the fact that they hadn’t been given adequate time for consultation on it.
Is that a technicality?
Will they have another go and dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s properly?
He’s right on one respect though: I’ll never believe another word a representative of “Public Health” says about anything. And I won’t be having any more “vaccines” for anything.
So he doesn’t oppose “vaccine” mandates and passports because they are fundamentally evil and a corruption of individual rights. All he wants is for Big Pharma to produce better concoctions so he can justify dictatorial policies.
Oh that’s good, 23,000 UK vaccine deaths. I’ve just looked up the total UK Covid deaths since the start which comes to 179,000. 95% of which had 2 or more co-morbidities i.e. only 5% died OF Covid. We have just murdered 23,000 good people for a disease that killed 8,950. Well done everyone.
The man who made billions from an operating system that seemed to be designed to make viruses flourish … now looks to make billions form human viruses that suddenly start to flourish. Who can’t join the dots?
The man who couldn’t keep viruses out of his operating systems is now a world authority on viruses.
The man has a messiah complex. He believes that only someone as clever as him can save stupid people from themselves
Gates is not to be trusted. It’s about money and power. He gets a lot of flak in the book “the real Dr Fauci”. Those 2 are in cahoots together
Initially Billy bitch tits claimed the vaccines worked so he was all for vax passports.
Over time it became too obvious that the vaccines din’t work so he now says vax passports aren’t justified in the case of these covid vaccines.
Come the next pandemic fraud be it monkey pox or a different hoax Billy bitch tits will claim his next warp speed vax is effective and push for vax passports whether his new potion actually works or not.
In reality vaccines never work, the whole science of vaccinolgy is based in fraud.
A lot of negativity in these reactions – understandably – and I’m as wary of Gates as any sensible sceptic – but it seems, at least, better news than we’re used to, right?
So, he doesn’t oppose vaccine mandates. He opposes mandates for the current vaccines. The clear implication is he’s strongly behind mandates for the new ‘effective’ vaccines he’s got up his sleeve. And just why is a retired elderly computer programmer determining global health policy, anyway?
He doesn’t strike me as the farmer-type, yet he has suddenly acquired the most farms in America (and undoubtedly globally) at the same time we are entering a manufactured food crisis.
The currency will devalue and farmland is a better investment.
Because he’s a Next Tuesday warrior.
Anyone seen the film Doomsday (2008). “With a lie this big, we can get away with anything we want”.
Just like the Nazis!
Notice he’s wearing purple. Everything is purple lately. It’s also the freemason choice of colour to represent treachery.
Also the imperial colour of ancient Rome – eg – “raised to the purple”
I must have woken up in a parallel universe.
I knew Billy Goats was weird (and either a psycho or just plain stupid) in 2016.
I read one of his blog posts. It’s still there. Tell me what you think:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/development/smells-of-success
I remember this. The very definition of a nutjob.
Couldn’t manage more than the opening couple of paragraphs and then my BS alarm began to bleep wildly. The photo at the opening of the article didn’t help either.
He told an audience from the stage that wearing a mask all day was the same as wearing ‘underpants ‘ – so what was the problem?
Check out his close relationship with Fauci going back twenty years in RFKJ’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci” also the Corbett report “Who is Bill Gates” ? – disturbing viewing!
Discussion on GB news from the panel who still think the vaccine has ‘saved’ millions of lives. How does anyone know that they have been ‘saved’ Its ridiculous.
If they hadn’t been clot-shotted it could have been so much worse.
Yes, they might still be alive!
So he means that in the next pandemic (which he always keeps referring to) such a vaccine would justify all restrictions. So a new good virus and a new good vaccine will do it. Biil is good in both. You could say it’s up to him.
Why should Bill Gates’ opinion matter more or be listened to by the political class gathered together any more than the critics of government pllicy over the past 2 years.
Well it might be because he puts a lot of his cash into projects they like and they receive political benefits or vicarious pleasure as a result.
Thi sis not democracy but I have to admit few in the political class these days claim it is. They just don’t explain. They just take our rights and rub our noses in any error or problems.
Something is off. I smell a ‘Bait and Switch’.
He has been promoted to Captain Obvious.
Is he a schizophrenic?
Who said that!?
I don’t know, I’m in two minds about that.
Unfortunately, they have now lost trust so comprehensively that if they came up with a complete cure for death I suspect that 50% of the people would refuse it…
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“detrimental long-term impacts on trust in government and scientific institution”
That ship has sailed. There’s no putting that genie back in the bottle.
See what he says.
I have long maintained that Klaus Schwab is a political lightweight and a con-man who has captured the imagination of some not very bright people. Indeed, the WEF is a distraction to what’s really going on.
Ben Pile, the well know climate sceptic has put together a professionally shot, short video explaining precisely what’s going on at the moment, and it has nothing to do with the WEF fantasist’s.
Spread it far and wide Merry Men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvGlF9_fpw
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/228-in-the-eye-of-the-perfect-storm/
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/
These artticles say much the same thing, but put energy economics at the forefront.
The critical element in this equation is the Energy Cost of Energy, which determines how much surplus (ex-cost) energy is available to the system. The ECoEs of oil, natural gas and coal have been rising relentlessly, undermining the fossil fuel foundations of the modern economy.
Protracted efforts to overcome energy deterioration with financial innovation have failed, simultaneously driving a wedge of instability between the ‘real’ or material economy of resources, goods and services and the ‘financial’ or proxy economy of money and credit.
This website explains why there will be no return to a normal predicated on unlimited supplies of cheap energy.
The consumer society is over.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/04/20/this-time-really-is-different/
This is why this time is different. In the absence of an alternative, cheap, high-density energy replacement for finite fossil fuels, there is no financial means of preventing a permanent depression – quarter after quarter, year after year of negative growth until the economy comes back into balance with the energy and resources available to us.
“Climate change” and blaming Greens is just a facade covering the fact that we cannot sustain our economy without cheap energy, and that is running out with no adequate replacements in sight.
This is how all empires collapse in the end. Back to the dark ages?
This conclusion is just nonsense. There are hundreds of years of known fossil fuel reserves within the UK. They are cheap, easy to access and gives ample time to develop nuclear power.
Watch the video from Ben Pile I just posted. The climate change scam is being used to make wealthy, powerful people, more wealthy and powerful.
Three hundred years of coal reserves. At least. Plus shale gas.
It is the energy cost of energy that is unaffordable.
This time around though, there is no untapped reserve of relatively cheap oil to underwrite a new burst of industrial growth. Indeed, it was the end of cheap (to extract) oil in 2005 which laid the basis for the 2008 crash and the ensuing depression which a large part of the population has lived with ever since. US shale production famously lowered the price of oil afterward, but investors got burned by a process which used billions of dollars to extract millions of dollars’ worth of oil. So that even before the Great Plague of 2020-22, US shale extraction was falling.
In the UK, interest in fracking for gas and in opening up relatively tiny oil fields in the northeast Atlantic overlooks the key issue of the energy cost of energy. The reason these projects failed in the past is because it was obvious to investors that the cost of extracting the oil and gas from them is greater than the market could bear. The same is true of new nuclear and even of non-renewable renewable energy-harvesting technologies (NRREHTs) once the costs of balancing intermittency are factored in.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/04/20/this-time-really-is-different/
There is no shortage of anything given sufficient time for human ingenuity to adapt. I’m not buying any “this time it’s different” or Malthusian “the end is nigh” prophecies, when they’ve always, without fail, been wrong.
You have completely missed the point. It is not a question of how much remains.
If a couple of boys start picking cherries from a tree, then the low-hanging fruit is picked first with little expenditure of time or energy. Eventually, athough there may be many cherries remaining in the highest branches, each cherry will require correspondingly more effort to pick. This equates to falling living standards.
How difficult can it be to invent a cherry picker…
Not true – in history the end has come for many civilizations which were not able to sustain themselves or their complexity on diminishing resource bases.
Where did you get all this nonsense from.
Shale gas is extraordinarily cheap to extract. No massive offshore infrastructure to invest in with associated maintenance cost’s.
It uses largely the same horizontal drilling technology as offshore oil extraction but from a piece of land roughly the size of two football fields.
The fracturing technique employs a mixture of water, sand and a tiny amount of lubricant for the drill bit. The water is injected at high pressure, causes the shale to fracture and the sand maintains the integrity of the tiny cracks to let the gas escape.
The UK has one of the largest fracking fields in the world. Just 10% of it is estimated to be able to provide all our natural gas needs for 50 years.
Offshore oil extraction is still viable, it’s the refusal of licences to explore and drill that are stopping investment in the north sea, but that’s under pressure now as well and is buckling with the government rushing through previously refused licences.
As I explained elsewhere, it’s not the energy cost of energy that’s the problem, it’s the pressure on investors by activists to divest from fossil fuels and the costs imposed by… Read more »
Sure, offshore oil extraction is still viable as is shale.
The point is that these expensive sources of energy – in terms of energy – are replacing relatively cheap sources, as time goes on.
For example, the production cost of a barrel of oil in the Arabian desert is about $3. By comparison shale costs about 60 (15 x as much) and oil from off the coast of Brazil about 80$ (2 x as much).
These expensive – in terms of energy – sources are only being exploited because their is no more of the cheaply produced stuff left to develop.
The pressure from government to divest from fossil fuels (levies/taxes/credits) is driven by the knowledge that our remaining fossil fuels are essential means in the transition to economically advantageous renewable technologies.
Which is to say that countries choosing to invest now will be much better off long term compared to the countries burning up their remaining stores of fossil energy.
Sorry but you’re incorrect. I recommend reading Kunstler’s books ‘The Long Emergency’ 2005 and ‘Living in the — —‘ 2020, which went to press just before COVID. He details oil and gas exploration in many countries in considerable detail. We aren’t discovering giant fields any more
His timing of the 2nd book was fortunate as it sets out the parlous state of the world economy by mid-2019, post-peak oil. Something was needed to distract people …
Energy sources with an EROEI of 6 are not cheap to extract. Texas oil of the 1920s had an EROEI of about 100; that’s 100 units of energy out for one put in.
Thank you Red.
If the above is legit why don’t we transfer the 11 billion subsidy currently fed to “renewables” to fossil fuel extraction?
Because it is not economic in the long term to continue to extract these increasingly expensive sources.
We need to change to new technologies. Unfortunately, given the current state of knowledge, no new source can supply the energy wealth coal and gas provided in the early years.
In the first stages of the Industrial revolution, steam power was used to pump water out of coal mines, allowing for their full exploitation. This, and later innovations gave Great Britain a massive advantage over other countries in terms of the power available to us. The population tripled in the 19th c because everything relies on cheap energy, even food supply.
Without these cheap energy sources, even food will become more expensive.
The entire global economy has assumed everlasting supplies of cheap energy and this has underpinned our unprecedented affluence in the 20th c.
Yes you can continue to mine the remaining coal. But you cannot support this type of economy on it.
Previous cultures used wood, slaves and water power.
We cannot support a consumer economy on these.
Short of a technological miracle, we need to reconfigure our way of life to adapt to this reality. Living standards will drop in the… Read more »
Looks like you have bought the whole renewable energy package – rather sad.
How much of it is easily accessible?
It is irrelevant how much coal or oil remains.
What is important is the constantly rising marginal cost of accessing those, meaning that most of it will be left in the ground.
The economy is poised for severe contraction because of the depletion of the low-cost fossil fuel energy which has powered the industrial age, and the absence of any plausible replacement for this low-ECoE energy.
we cannot somehow “de-couple” economic prosperity from the supply, value and cost of energy.
You mean it’s not just Tim Yeo?!
It is not “running out”- it has been closed down.
The ECoEs of oil, natural gas and coal have been rising relentlessly, undermining the fossil fuel foundations of the modern economy.
These have been rising because, as Ben explains, wealthy activists have funded activist groups which have frightened financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels.
Investment has fallen, supply is reduced and, like anything else, when there is undersupply, cost’s shoot up.
Unless civil unrest is to begin breaking out across the world, governments need to, and will address this. Once civil unrest starts in one region and the other regions are suffering under the same yoke of oppression, it will spread like wildfire across the globe.
That’s every governments worst nightmare.
The ones pulling the strings of all this know renewable energy will never work, but they don’t care. They are foolish enough to imagine their empire will survive regional, national and even international unrest.
Our governments are not blind to this.
Interestingly, Putin has put a stick in the spokes of these people, deliberately or otherwise. He’s forced the issue before NetZero plans are in their infancy. For example, there is huge pressure for Boris to drop the green taxes on energy. When that happens, it will be… Read more »
Excellent analyses, Red. Britain is made of coal. Plus the oil.
I’m intrigued by notions that oil may not be fossil fuels either. I know some now use the term hydrocarbons as some spent oil fields have seemingly replenished. Who knows? There is much about the planet we don’t understand.
Even if oil is replenished it doesn’t matter.
What matters is whether any oil that is replenished is available such that it the energy return on energy invested (EROEI) maintains global EROEI, such that living standards are maintained.
Nailed it 👌.
Excellent video.
Thanks for the link.
The video ignores that the Western oil majors, who are susceptible to such pressures, have increasingly become almost bit players in the industry, compared to the large state-owned oil corporations, like Aramco, which dominate the industry. These corporations are located outside the West and are not very easy to pressure. Ultimately, these pressures amount to little because if BP or Exxon refuse to develop oil or gas in, for example, Brazil, then it won’t stay in the ground, but will be developed by Rosneft or Sinopec or Aramco, which all have plenty of capital and experience.
All oil or gas hich can be developed economically will be developed regardless of ‘green concerns’. If one of the Western firms doesn’t do it, then somebody else will.
Thanks for the link Red. Excellent vid but very disheartening.
He might be a prize A c.u.n.t but I am sure his press team can read the room. This means nothing. Follow the actions not the words.
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