Weird to me that folks want to attack the person and not his material — with solid counter-evidence. You don’t just call someone names and say they are wrong. Obviously, this pandemic was not in people’s minds 6 months ago — so why even ask where this material was then? The point is that it is here now.
You have one guy that on at least two occasions has said he has not kept up with the virus or the news and data about it at all. Yet, he wants to call people names and attack them verbally — actually implies he would fight in person over words.
Then you have another guy that mainly posts only negative posts about Trump that questions where the person is, what his age is, and what his job is — instead of countering the material. What does this matter? Do you have a certain way you counter different people from different areas, ages or jobs?
Ridiculous to me how you can have a discussion or debate about any issue like that. Name-calling and personal questions don’t do that.
Why not simply address the issue or topic at hand? You do this be reviewing his material and countering it with your own opinion based on what you ‘know’ or other material you find by experts.
I don’t really think Gates has a hidden agenda. I sincerely think he means well — indeed, he has done a lot of good. Certainly he is no expert in the field. But, I think he is trying to help. Maybe, he also has ulterior motives.
Pandemics have always been a threat. They have happened before and will happen again. It is not like Gates had some great insight. But he is trying to help. An asteroid will sooner or later hit us, we know this. Volcanoes will blow, we know this — yet still live near them. Nuclear war, bio-terror, solar blast, AI — lots of things are ‘known’ threats.
There are many tangents here. Does Gates have a nefarious agenda — along with a good one? Are the big drug companies promoting an expensive drug over a cheap one? Is the virus being used politically? Lots of others make for good discussions — this nonsense of just dismissing someone and calling them names is not good. More people are on here lately because they are not actually leaving the house as much, maybe. So, maybe they did have a concern about some of these things before — but now they have time to be on here. So, be polite and discuss rationally or don’t respond and move along.
This is certainly not the first time Gates has been called into question about his actions. That has been done way before this pandemic.
My opinion is there is unlikely a vaccine coming soon — for various reasons we have discussed in other threads. No successful vaccine has ever been developed for a coronavirus. This is basically an external system and not internal — it is upper respiratory. That is why it is important to do what we know works. You have to have a herd immunity at some point as the virus eventually weakens in strength — usually along with the Pareto Principle, as we have discussed in here before. Etc., etc.
It is a whole other matter whether administrators and non-virologists should be dictating your economic policy. You should consider real expert’s opinions and you should have competing opinions form other experts on the committees. I am not sure how much a Fauci or Gates should dictate economic policy at all.
Sure, there are some quacky, conspiracies — but this is not the way to address them adequately.
....Foul on Midnight
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