Bill Gates has had a great deal of vilification from some people due to a 3 minute video clip taken from his TED Talk where he discusses energy and climate.
This clip is the section on population control and vaccines. There is absolutely nothing sinister going on in this clip, but huge numbers of people appear to have been brainwashed into thinking he’s threatening to wipe out 10-15% of the population with vaccines.
This is a TED Talk not a Nazi rally! It’s an academic forum for prestigious speakers. Do you honestly think they would invite a speaker to promote mass genocide?
In the clip he’s talking about the population being at 6.8 billion and that it’s heading towards 9 billion. He says they need to reduce that by 10-15%. He’s referring to population growth, he’s not referring to depopulating by killing people. He talks about vaccines having the effect of reducing fertility (the amount of births per woman) as vaccines reduce childhood mortality.
What if some people with a great deal of wealth and wisdom are wanting to make your life, and all life for progeny better?
What would you would do with all of the money, success, and resources you accumulate? You’ve traveled the world -given to everyone you want to give to -and total Freedom.
It’s the same thing David Attenborough has been advocating for years.
It is easy to misunderstand because everything and everyone can be misunderstood!
Doctors and scientist all over the world are educated to think of the long term consequences of a decision. An example of this is the effects of leadership Pope Gregory IX, the 178th pope of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241. He is often remembered for issuing a Papal Bull declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit, which subsequently led to huge numbers of cats being killed throughout Europe. The mass extermination of the continent’s felines is considered an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats. Cats could have hunted those rats and saved so many people!
Bill Gates 2015 TED Talk on pandemics wasn’t unique (and he was referring to influenza as the threat), he just has a huge voice.
Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant gave A Ted Talkin 2006 which was extremely accurate in its prediction. He went on to help the producers of the film Contagion which has all the same warnings in 2011.
There have been many other talks and books about pandemic threats by other experts. This isn’t some grand plan, it’s scientific predictions that have come true, that’s how science works. SARS was a big enough warning sign and that was 18 years ago.
Larry Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. “A billion people would get sick,” he said. “As many as 165 million people would die. There would be a global recession and depression, and the cost to our economy of $1 to $3 trillion would be far worse for everyone than merely 100 million people dying, because so many more people would lose their jobs and their health care benefits, that the consequences are almost unthinkable.”
Now the unthinkable is here, and Brilliant, the Chairman of the board of Ending Pandemics, is sharing expertise with those on the front lines. We are a long way from 100 million deaths due to the novel coronavirus, but it has turned our world upside down.
March 2020
Ted Talk 2006 Larry Brilliant
MUST SEE- Small Pox Eradication
Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandemics before they spread.
Right now -we have viruses and bacteria that we cannot fight with pharmacuetical medication. Yes right now!
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Major epidemics and pandemics
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemics}
By death toll
Ongoing epidemics are in boldface. For a given epidemic, the average of its estimated death toll range is used for ranking. If the death toll averages of two or more epidemics are equal, then the smaller the range, the higher the rank. For the historical records of major changes in the world population, see world population.[3][4]
| Rank | Epidemics/pandemics | Disease | Death toll | Global population lost | Regional population lost | Years | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Death | Bubonic plague | 75–200 million[citation needed] | 17–54%[a] | 30–60% of European population[5] | 1346–1353 | Europe, Asia, and North Africa |
| 2 | Spanish flu | Influenza A/H1N1 | 17–100 million | 1–5.4%[6][7] | – | 1918–1920 | Worldwide |
| 3 | Plague of Justinian | Bubonic plague | 15–100 million | 7–56%[a] | 25–60% of European population[8] | 541–549 | North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia |
| 4 | HIV/AIDS epidemic | HIV/AIDS | 42 million (as of 2023) | [b] | – | 1981–present[9] | Worldwide |
| 5 | COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19 | 6.9–28.3 million | 0.1–0.4%[3] | – | 2019–present[c] | Worldwide |
| 6 | Third plague pandemic | Bubonic plague | 12–15 million | [b] | – | 1855–1960 | Worldwide |
| 7 | Cocoliztli epidemic of 1545–1548 | Cocoliztli, caused by an unidentified pathogen | 5–15 million | 1–3%[a] | 27–80% of Mexican population[11] | 1545–1548 | Mexico |
| 8 | Antonine Plague | Smallpox or measles | 5–10 million | 3–6%[4] | 25–33% of Roman population[12] | 165–180 (possibly up to 190) | Roman Empire |
| 9 | 1520 Mexico smallpox epidemic | Smallpox | 5–8 million | 1–2%[a] | 23–37% of Mexican population[11] | 1519–1520 | Mexico |
| 10 | 1918–1922 Russia typhus epidemic | Typhus | 2–3 million | 0.1–0.16%[7][d] | 1–1.6% of Russian population[13] | 1918–1922 | Russia |
| 11 | 1957–1958 influenza pandemic | Influenza A/H2N2 | 1–4 million | 0.03–0.1%[3] | – | 1957–1958 | Worldwide |
| 12 | Hong Kong flu | Influenza A/H3N2 | 1–4 million | 0.03–0.1%[3] | – | 1968–1969 | Worldwide |
| 13 | Cocoliztli epidemic of 1576 | Cocoliztli | 2–2.5 million | 0.4–0.5%[4] | 50% of Mexican population[11] | 1576–1580 | Mexico |
| 14 | 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic | Smallpox | 2 million | 1%[4] | 33% of Japanese population[14] | 735–737 | Japan |
| 15 | 1772–1773 Persian Plague | Bubonic plague | 2 million | 0.2–0.3%[4] | [e] | 1772–1773 | Persia |
| 16 | Naples Plague | Bubonic plague | 1.25 million | 0.2%[4] | [e] | 1656–1658 | Southern Italy |
| 17 | 1846–1860 cholera pandemic | Cholera | 1 million+ | 0.08%[4] | – | 1846–1860 | Worldwide |
| 18 | 1629–1631 Italian plague | Bubonic plague | 1 million | 0.2%[4] | [e] | 1629–1631 | Italy |
| 19 | 1889–1890 flu pandemic | Influenza (disputed)[15][16] | 1 million | 0.07%[4] | – | 1889?1890 | – |
Depopulation of the Americas
Main article: Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas § Depopulation by Old World diseases
Not included in the above table are many waves of deadly diseases brought by Europeans to the Americas and Caribbean. Western Hemisphere populations were ravaged mostly by smallpox, but also typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis. The lack of written records in many places and the destruction of many native societies by disease, war, and colonization make estimates uncertain. Deaths probably numbered in the tens or perhaps over a hundred million, with perhaps 90% of the population dead in the worst-hit areas. Lack of scientific knowledge about microorganisms and lack of surviving medical records for many areas makes attribution of specific numbers to specific diseases uncertain.
