Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "'That one I still have to laugh at': Bill Gates on being targeted by conspiracy theorists" video.

  1. These vaccines, like all other vaccines we take, are not meant to prevent infection, but serious disease. Despite his obvious age, he's still alive.
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  2. Having tutored nursing students in chemistry, while getting my degree in microbiology, I am unimpressed with your nursing degree. I'm far more of an expert, than you are. If you look at the data, the risk of blood clots, from the J&J vaccine, are about a hundred fold less than from an infection. Also, J&J is not shelved, but reserved for older people. Plus, with the amazing mRNA vaccines, you'd be a fool to get anything else.
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  3. What are his qualifications again? He doesn't have a degree in microbiology, virology, immunology, or anything that would make him an expert! His very first statement was absolutely false! The latest variants are not more transmissible. (He said transmissive, which is both wrong and the wrong terminology.) Omicron, BA.2 and the like are more immune evasive not more transmissible. They are also not milder, as some ignoramuses have claimed. Those with immunity still can be infected, but they are protected against severe disease. And while vaccinated people, shed less virus, there is no known vaccine that blocks transmission or infection. Unless you're really immunodeficient, there isn't much need to be boosted more often than yearly. The reason that the first booster was needed was, the first two vaccines were given too close together to allow somatic hypermutation (which protects against variants not yet experienced), so a third dose was needed. Much of what he spoke of just shows his ignorance. No vaccine can prevent infection. The mRNA vaccines are amazing, for the breadth and strength of the immunity they produce, much more so than any previous against any respiratory disease. Usually, unless a virus causes a viremia (blood infection) such a strong immune response is not produced. That is why the mRNA vaccines evoke an even better immune response than infection. Also, even when your humoral adaptive immune response contracts, and you have less circulating IgG, you still have memory B and T cells, and that immunity persists for years, not months. So much of what Gates said is just wrong. Please, please, please, bring on real experts, not these uninformed twits, no matter how well meaning. I would suggest Vincent Racaniello, who has a PhD in virology, and teaches at Columbia. If you contact him, he'll come on your show and give you accurate information.
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  4. He absolutely destroyed the word processor industry, with his inferior products, and buying, then shelving, better products. For decades, our home only used other O/S like OS2 and Linux, and called Microsoft the evil empire. Now, he's trying to do good things. While I applaud his philanthropy, I am disgusted he puts himself out as an expert, when he is not.
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  5. If that was true, he'd have aged the most in the 1980s.
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  6.  @tonilharmon  The variants aren't weaker, they are still killing and disabling naive hosts. Most people have some immunity now, either through vaccination or infection. And the weaker hosts were killed off in 2020.
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  7. Even a physician, unless he specializes in infectious disease, is not an expert. Why not ask a real virologist or immunologist, rather than a guy who got rich by buying up, and shelving, other people's software. Having degrees in both microbiology and computer science, I really loathe this rich fool.
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  8.  @smkxodnwbwkdns8369  Generally, but not on the specifics. He clearly doesn't really understand the field, as he made a number of misstatements.
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  9. Why is this uneducated man treated like an expert?
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  10. One a year should be more than sufficient.
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