How to make make vaccine skeptics
appear irrational and undiscerning

My previous post — "I can't believe it but I'm actually defending Bill Gates here..." — generated many comments which acknowledged that I wasn't defending Gates but rather truth and justice.

Quick summary: Many people claim that in Gates' 2010 TED Talk, he claimed he was going to use vaccines to kill off 10-15% of the population. This knee-jerk reaction is understandable considering his reputation for killing people with vaccines. Nonetheless, it's quite clear that Gates meant that vaccines would decrease childhood mortality (which I disagree with) and that fewer infant deaths would lead to fewer births in third world countries (which seems to be true).

A Blazing Pine Cone subscriber from Florida, who prefers to remain anonymous, said:

"There's one more thing I wanted to say to you, and that is that I was in full agreement with you on your Bill Gates email. You made perfect sense, and I too know the exact words Gates said at that TED Talk about the 10-15% thing and vaccines. I always seek truth, so I don't like when either side takes truth and manipulates it to satisfy their point."

Subscriber Janet Garfield agreed:

"I believe Bill Gates is a wealthy lunatic which makes him a dangerous man, and I have also thrown some pretty dark thoughts his way.... I would be quite satisfied to see him locked up forever along with an endless supply of complimentary experimental jabs... [But my] consensus is that you are a kind soul and you make total sense."

Thanks, Janet. I'd only add that in addition to COVID shots, Gates should be given a PC running on Windows 95 (which must have been the worst operating system ever aborted).

Lastly, the editor for my forthcoming novella, All the Humans are Sleeping, Pete Toccalino, had this story to share:

"I remember having this conversation with my sister many years ago, probably 2011. She was a confirmed 'anti-vaxxer' but had taken the bait on this infamous Gates' quote, and I argued with her making the same point you've made, which seemed obvious to me at the time, and of course, is the position of any halfway intelligent, pro-quackzine normie... I think this paranoid interpretation of the quote was deliberately seeded in social media to make vaccine skeptics appear irrational and undiscerning and as a guardrail preventing enquiring minds from looking into vaccine safety. It took me a few years after this conversation to realize my sister was completely right about the dangers of vaccines, but it had nothing to do with this talking point about Gates."

It's similar to how many anti-maskers claim that masks deny people oxygen. This is easy to disprove with an oximeter (see my hypoxia experiment). Claiming a thin piece of cloth prevents our large lungs from transporting enough oxygen into our bloodstream only serves to discredit the long list of valid reasons why the masks are useless and harmful.

So if you agree with me, Pete, Janet and the anonymous lady from Florida, that Gates' 2010 TED Talk does not prove anything about his diabolical plans to depopulate the planet one mRNA injection at a time, please head on over to my post about this on Twitter (X)...

https://twitter.com/JohnMan54880915/status/1757206675281383750 

..and re-tweet it (or re-X it?) to all your followers and friends. Show the Twitter world that we vaccine skeptics are rational and discerning.

—John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/