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As Bill and Melinda Gates split up, it’s time to divorce the Microsoft billionaire from calling the Covid shots for us
from RT:
Bill Gates isn’t a doctor, he wasn’t elected to anything, and now we know he can’t keep his own house in order, either. So can we quit pretending that he’s the oracle on Covid-19 vaccines or how to run the world?
Gates and his wife of 27 years, Melinda, announced on Monday that they are divorcing. They will continue to run the foundation that bears both of their names, “but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives.”
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It happens. There are more than 800,000 divorces filed in the US annually, and some of them involved powerful people. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, split with his wife in 2019 and divided up a fortune valued at about $150 billion at the time.
Gates is still a rich software magnate who built a fortune, largely by wielding monopoly-like leverage to block competition, and deserves whatever respect that accomplishment affords. But he’s not God. As his impending divorce should remind everyone, he doesn’t have all the answers.
That’s particularly true when it comes to public health policy and medicine. Gates, the son of a Planned Parenthood director, isn’t an expert on vaccines. He dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft. He’s a health care philanthropist with a particular point of view.
Yet the mainstream media treats Gates not only as if he’s all-knowing – on issues ranging from climate change to bioterrorism – but also all-deciding. In interview after interview, the population-control advocate opines on vaccine rollouts and other public health strategies to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s almost as if he’s given the power to decide who lives and who dies.
Except maybe it’s not almost. With Covid-19 deaths running rampant in India and pressure increasing to waive patent restrictions, which would allow poor countries to produce desperately needed vaccines for themselves, Gates essentially said “tough luck.”
“The thing that’s holding things back in this case is not intellectual property,” Gates told Sky News. “It’s not like there’s some idle vaccine factory, with regulatory approval, that makes magically safe vaccines. You know, you’ve got to do the trial on these things. Every manufacturing process has to be looked at in a very careful way.”
