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Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference to make a point about the deadly sting of malaria.
'Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,' Gates said while opening a jar on stage at a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
'I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.'" Say what you will about the guy, that is showmanship. Well done.
That's because the UK are now just another state of the US... D'uh, don't you know anything?
Quite the opposite, Mr Troll, he's making the point that rich people are NOT immune, and they need to stop ignoring these problems which they seem to think only affect other people in other countries.
The attendees are pissed at him, because they are spoiled magnates and he just made asses of them. So sue the man! See if he cares...
Frankly, I think he should have stabbed everyone with an HIV syringe. Maybe _that_ would stimulate these cocky ego-stroking bastards to release the cure.
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>The point that he demonstrated, rather well it seems, is that we in
>the west find the idea of us being subjected to the risk of malaria extremely offensive.
And we found it so offensive that we did what it took to basically eliminate malaria from our society.
Why don't other societies do that, too? Why is it our job to do it for them?
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Because you equate abortion with murder. I'm sorry, but I don't. When a fetus is viable, it's a person. Before that, it's a parasite. I don't care that it's going to be a human eventually. More importantly, I may find abortion a deplorable act, a disgusting act, and something I personally would only consider in the most extreme cases (Anencephaly, for example), but that doesn't mean that I believe I know better than all people for all situations. People will take extreme measures in extreme situations, and they need access to safe healthcare. That includes all reasonable procedures.
But that's not the real point here, is it?
The real point is that the media (I don't know of any person that) freaks out about bird flu, a disease that has killed exactly 248 people in the last 11 years, while Malaria has been busy doing its thing, killing around a million people every year while we've been keeping records. And there have been deaths attributed to malaria recorded as far back as 50,000 years.
Frankly, I personally applaud Bill Gates for both of these acts--but especially trying to bring attention to Malaria. This is a disease that gets neither the attention nor the respect it deserves, and it's absolutely because of the reason he says... it only happens to poor people.
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Yup. Same thing with freon. After the patent expired, it became an evil environmental hazard here. Good thing Dow had a convenient replacement refrigerant!
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Your post would indicate we just decided to ban it for no worthwile reason.
Yes, that's exactly what happened.
It was banned because of a single flawed "study" -- which had already been disproven -- which claimed that DDT was causing raptors' shells to soften.
Here we are forty-some years later, and first-world environmental extremists are STILL committing the moral equivalent of mass murder in the Third World via this misanthropic ban.
What do you want to bet that Mr. Gates never mentioned THAT little inconvenient truth in his presentation?
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth gets you modded -1 Troll
The UK is USA State 51 Beta.
All the bullshit programs like government monitoring, forced tolerance, ridiculous taxes, the enslavement of males, and even the metric system are tested and refined there before being folded into the main USA fork.