Bill Gates's Charity Paradox

Tim Schwab
The Nation
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:01 UTC

A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation's $50 billion charitable enterprise.

Last fall, Netflix premiered a three-part documentary that promises viewers a rare look at the inner life of one of history's most controversial businessmen. Over three hours, Inside Bill's Brain shows us a rare emotional side to Bill Gates as he processes the loss of his mother and the death of his estranged best friend and Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen.

Mostly, though, the film reinforces the image many of us already had of the ambitious technologist, insatiable brainiac, and heroic philanthropist. Inside Bill's Brain falls into a common trap: attempting to understand the world's second-richest human by interviewing people in his sphere of financial influence.

Comment: The whole concept of 'philanthropy' clearly needs a reboot. Bill Gates likely cares little if any about the world's poor and disadvantaged, but has simply found a way through charity to weild power and influence over the world. His vision reportedly includes mass vaccinations, population controls, rampant genetic modification and complete surveillance of every individual on the planet. Has anyone voted for this? Gates giddy glee at the lockdown measures currently gripping the planet give away his entire game - he wants a world population under total domination and control with himself seated on the throne.

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Total U.S. deaths DOWN 10% in March from prior years, further raising question of COVID impact

Steve Elliott
Grassfire
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:23 UTC

According to data obtained from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System website, total U.S. deaths for the first three weeks of March are DOWN 10% from the average of the prior four years for the same three week period.

The average for weeks 9 through 11 for the four prior years was a total of 170,555 deaths. For weeks 9 through 11 this year, the total is 153,015, meaning 17,540 fewer people died in America during the first three weeks of March than could be reasonably expected. And the gap between historic deaths and weekly deaths is widening. For week 11, just 47,655 Americans died, 8,773 and 15% fewer than the average for week 11 in the prior four years. And while data on week 12 is not complete, it is trending similar to week 11 and will likely be down by 15% (around 8,700 deaths less than expected) even though 1,919 COVID-19 deaths were reported (in week beginning 3/22).

26,000 Fewer U.S. Deaths in March

The final data for March could show a total of 26,000 or more FEWER DEATHS in the month than would be expected without even factoring in the impact of 4,000 COVID deaths.

Comment: So... WHY THE GLOBAL LOCKDOWN?

ANOTHER study finds smokers are less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC

Smoking may reduce the likelihood of being hospitalised with coronavirus, claims a study.

Here is the abstract of the study - Smoking, vaping and hospitalization for COVID-19 - by researchers at the University of West Attica in Greece and New York University.

As a GP, I fear our Covid-19 lockdown will result in significantly more deaths than we are trying to prevent

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 02:18 UTC

We are paying too high a price to try to combat Covid-19. Not just in terms of the £350 billion ($430 billion) bill, but also in the health costs our actions are causing.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a very thorny issue to the forefront. How much money can we, as a society, spend on keeping people healthy or alive? No one has ever fully got to grips with this question, but it has never been more important than now.

America has set aside $2 trillion to deal with the crisis, and Britain £350 billion - which is almost three times the current yearly budget for the entire NHS. Is this a price worth paying?

Comment: The good doctor is applying logic - from his perspective as a medical professional - to the situation and arriving at the core issue: there is no way in hell this global lockdown has been instituted to 'save lives'!

Clearly, something else is going on.

Setting up to fail: Gates funded clinical trial on hydroxychloroquine uses Vitamin C as placebo

Carl Campanile and Sam Raskin
New York Post
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 07:18 UTC

As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, state health officials say.

President Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential life-saver, although there is no widespread scientific evidence to date showing it helps battle COVID-19.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month said health care providers in the state would be using the drug in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, for some last-ditch cases, based on potentially promising research.

Comment: What a transparent scam! Why they would actually tell journalists they're using vitamin C as a placebo is either stupidity or hubris (or both).

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Beware the creeps who enjoy a new pandemic power

Kurt Schlichter
Townhall
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:01 UTC

The problem with people referring to this bizarre pandemic life limbo as "the new normal" is that there are people out there, both in and out of positions of responsibility, who are digging this opportunity to boss us around. And it is troubling to see that there are a number of prominent folks who are in no hurry to curtail their ability to boss us around. We need to note carefully who these people are and ensure that they never get a chance to control anything again.

You are starting to see more of that as this drags out. You have got Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and others thinking this is a great time to get our socialism on. You also have functionaries - all of whom are still getting paychecks - who are way too eager to start issuing orders instead of relying on citizens to behave rationally. We don't need to be ordered around, but they can't resist the ordering. The moron mayor of LA is offering rewards to freedom narcs, and government hacks making stores refuse to sell "non-essential" items - what the hell they are thinking telling us what is and is not "essential" anyway? They are thinking, "Hey, this power stuff is fun!" Which is why you should never give power to someone who enjoys it.

Comment: Power has made its choices. It's time for the people to make theirs.

Researchers warn the COVID-19 lockdown will take its own toll on health

M.B. Pell and Benjamin Lesser
Reuters
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC

It's the most dramatic government intervention into our lives since World War II. To fight the coronavirus outbreak, governments across the globe have closed schools, travel and businesses big and small. Many observers have fretted about the economic costs of throwing millions of people out of work and millions of students out of school.

Now, three weeks after the United States and other countries took sweeping suppression steps that could last months or more, some public health specialists are exploring a different consequence of the mass shutdown: the thousands of deaths likely to arise unrelated to the disease itself.

The longer the suppression lasts, history shows, the worse such outcomes will be. A surge of unemployment in 1982 cut the life spans of Americans by a collective two to three million years, researchers found. During the last recession, from 2007-2009, the bleak job market helped spike suicide rates in the United States and Europe, claiming the lives of 10,000 more people than prior to the downturn. This time, such effects could be even deeper in the weeks, months and years ahead if, as many business and political leaders are warning, the economy crashes and unemployment skyrockets to historic levels.

Comment: The above article is coming from the perspective that "the coronavirus is bad, but..." But what if the coronavirus isn't any worse in it's death toll than the seasonal flu? Or even not as bad? Then how can all the above consequences be justified?

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Let them eat vaccines: Foodbanks overwhelmed as America's poorest starve during lockdown

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:45 UTC

America is crashing into a depression. In just two weeks, 10 million people have claimed unemployment benefits. This has put unprecedented stress on food bank networks across the country, a new investigation via The Guardian shows.

The US labor market is in free fall - the increasing lockdowns across major US metropolitan areas have forced millions of people out of work and into a hunger crisis.

The Guardian shows demand for food aid in some regions of the country has surged eightfold in recent weeks as RealInvestmentAdvice.com's Lance Roberts warns the unemployment rates in the US could spike to levels not seen since the "Great Depression," or about 15-20% in the second quarter.

The National Guard has been deployed for a variety of reasons: One is to support local area hospital systems, another is to maintain social order, and now soldiers in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Phoenix have supported food banks to ensure shortages do not materialize, mostly because that would trigger social unrest among the working poor.

Comment: Well ZeroHedge, maybe you should have thought about some of these things before you jumped on the CoronaHoax in January?

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Coronavirus lockdown: We are so afraid of death, no one even asks whether this 'cure' is actually worse

Jonathan Sumption
The Sunday Times
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:52 UTC

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." The words are Franklin D Roosevelt's. His challenge was recession, not disease, but his words have a wider resonance.

Fear is dangerous. It is the enemy of reason. It suppresses balance and judgment. And it is infectious. Roosevelt thought government was doing too little. But today fear is more likely to push governments into doing too much, as democratic politicians run for cover in the face of public panic. Is the coronavirus the latest and most damaging example?

Epidemics are not new. Bubonic plague, smallpox, cholera, typhoid, meningitis, Spanish flu all took a heavy toll in their time. An earlier generation would not have understood the current hysteria over Covid-19, whose symptoms are milder and whose case mortality is lower than any of these.

Big one coming for Yellowstone? Utah rocked by more than 700 earthquakes in weeks since 5.7 magnitude tremor

Jessica Schladbeck
NY Daily News
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:01 UTC

© George Frey/Getty Images
Bricks and debris lay at the base of a building damaged by an earthquake on March 18 in Magna, Utah

The state of Utah has been rocked by 728 earthquakes in the weeks since a 5.7-magnitude tremor rattled residents of Salt Lake City and beyond last month.

That figure includes three quakes with a magnitude of at least four and another 30 with a magnitude of at least three, according to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. Experts additionally determined there were no foreshocks ahead of the initial earthquake, which shook swaths of Northern Utah awake on March 18 around 7 a.m.

The biggest of the aftershocks, a 4.7-magnitude tremor, occurred an hour later and a second quake of the same size rocked region again around 1 p.m.

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Bill Gates's Charity Paradox

Total U.S. deaths DOWN 10% in March from prior years, further raising question of COVID impact

ANOTHER study finds smokers are less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19

As a GP, I fear our Covid-19 lockdown will result in significantly more deaths than we are trying to prevent

Setting up to fail: Gates funded clinical trial on hydroxychloroquine uses Vitamin C as placebo

Beware the creeps who enjoy a new pandemic power

Researchers warn the COVID-19 lockdown will take its own toll on health

Let them eat vaccines: Foodbanks overwhelmed as America's poorest starve during lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown: We are so afraid of death, no one even asks whether this 'cure' is actually worse

Big one coming for Yellowstone? Utah rocked by more than 700 earthquakes in weeks since 5.7 magnitude tremor

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