{"id":10887,"date":"2022-11-17T17:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T23:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=10887"},"modified":"2025-01-19T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T04:38:59","slug":"bill-gates-finally-admits-something","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/bill-gates-finally-admits-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates finally admits something"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesMelville\/status\/1592419359724818432?s=20&amp;t=6MyT6pl_xdLe_ECRQymqfw\">One self-described pundit<\/a>\u00a0found this video of Bill Gates admitting that COVID-19 is not a big deal at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]When viewing this cherry-picked portion of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=1342&amp;v=cuNWRoHRzkU&amp;feature=youtu.be\">video in its broader context<\/a>, we discover that Bill Gates is discussing with Fareed Zakaria the importance of building better global health cooperation before the next pandemic. Gates goes out of his way to explain that February 2020 was a scary time because the Chinese government had been uncooperative enough that the virus was most certainly already circulating in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>We did get lucky that the mortality rate for COVID-19 wasn\u2019t higher, as the video goes on to point out.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/vaccines-blood-biologics\/vaccines\/smallpox#:~:text=Historically%2C%20variola%20major%20has%20a,of%20smallpox%2C%20are%20usually%20fatal.\">Smallpox<\/a>, for example, had a 30% mortality rate. To potentially lose 30% of our population would be catastrophic, as any fan of dystopian fiction will tell you.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, this \u201clower\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/coronavirus-covid-19\/issue-brief\/deaths-among-older-adults-due-to-covid-19-jumped-during-the-summer-of-2022-before-falling-somewhat-in-september\/\">mortality rate<\/a>\u00a0meant that 1.1 million people in the United States died, and 75% of them were over 65 years old.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status?country=~50%2B\">Vaccination status<\/a>\u00a0played a clear role in preventing many deaths. The deaths in the U.S. were significant enough that they may have changed the outcome of the most recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thetriad.thebulwark.com\/p\/how-trump-and-desantis-will-attack?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=87274&amp;post_id=84507567&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;utm_medium=email\">mid-term election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gates\u2019 real point stands: let\u2019s get our ducks in a row before the next pandemic hits.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates discussed the importance of preparing for future pandemics, noting that while COVID-19 had a lower mortality rate, it still caused significant deaths and highlighted the need for better global health cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[232,189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10887","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-bill-gates","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10889,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10887\/revisions\/10889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}