When it comes to Covid-19, Bill Gates has so far been noticed primarily as a panic propagator. His well-known commitment to vaccines and big pharma should help a lot. After all, panic is reviving the vaccination business. And he deserves a lot of it.
on Twitter the multi-billionaire Bill Gates has rang the alarm bells again. The Microsoft co-founder warned this time about the so-called “Omicron variant” of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is held responsible for the Covid-19 disease. “The big unknown is how sick Omicron makes you. We have to take them seriously until we know more about them. Even if it’s half as bad as Delta, it’ll be the worst wave we’ve seen because it’s so contagious ”wrote Gates on Twitter.
Gates claims so, although all data so far suggest that this variant is significantly milder than the previous one. In South Africa, for example, is now even called for thisto no longer trace the contacts of those who tested positive and to no longer quarantine the positive cases. Why? Because the hospitalization rate of Omicron positives is just one eleventh of the rate that was seen with the Delta variant. Because South Africa already has a high “infection rate”, while only a small proportion (just over a quarter of the population) have received two doses of vaccine. Between 38 and 53 percent of the adult population (depending on the province) received at least one dose of the experimental vaccine.
More breakthrough cases
The Omicron variant is so contagious, Gates said in his Twitter thread, that it is “spreading faster than any virus in history” and “will soon be in every country in the world”. He depicts the virus as an obstacle to the return to normal. He underlined his own reaction to the Omicron variant. Gates went on to insist that we “take care of one another” by “wearing masks, avoiding large indoor gatherings, and getting a booster vaccination for“ best protection ”. However, the billionaire acknowledged that “there will be more breakthrough cases in vaccinated people.”
An increased breakthrough in transmission among the vaccinated is, according to Gates, “purely a factor in how many people are vaccinated and how quickly this variant spreads”. Instead of preventing transmission, he insisted that the experimental “vaccines are designed to prevent people from becoming seriously ill or dying and survive it well.” He predicts that the Omicron waves will last “less than three months” in each country. Gates also warned that “these few months could be bad,” but stated, “I still believe the 2022 pandemic may be over if we take the right steps.”
Return to normal?
However, while Gates is careful not to make absolute statements, he has postponed his proposed targets since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak to return to “normalcy”. In one Interview from April 2020 he suggested that mass vaccination would help a return to normal gatherings. He said that “activities like mass gatherings” “may not come back” until people are “largely vaccinated”. In December 2020, he predicted that by the summer of 2021, Americans could regain some semblance of normalcy. However, he predicted that it will last until early 2022, “if we don’t help other countries get rid of this disease and we get high vaccination rates in our country, there will be a risk of return.”
After Gates admitted vaccines won’t prevent the transmission of Covid-19, the question remains whether Gates still expects the world not to return to normal until the virus is eradicated. His desire to “get rid of this disease” is contrary to what most scientists expect. These say that Covid-19 is becoming endemic. That means it should circulate like a cold every year. But for people like Bill Gates that put a lot of money into the pharmaceutical and vaccine industries, it doesn’t matter. The scare tactics must continue for the ruble to roll. Pfizer doesn’t have profits and sales for nothing increase significantly be able. Gates as a shareholder also benefits from it.
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