Bill gates on corona

Dennis H said:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-on-coronavirus-161803530.html​

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Richard Cranium said:

Easy for Bill to say to wait it out for 6-10 weeks, he can afford it. The rest of us have to work.

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Richard Cranium said:

Thanks. Apparently, those in charge of the interwebs pulled it because they don't want any dissenting opinion.


From the WSJ......

Controlling the Virus Narrative
Medium takes down an essay arguing against ‘hysteria.’
By The Editorial Board
March 22, 2020 1:55 pm ET

The coronavirus threat creates new challenges for social-media companies already grappling with the limits of free speech online. China is waging an information war to whitewash its handling of the virus and impugn the U.S. Meanwhile, charlatans hawking bogus science or false cures could endanger the public.

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Yet some of the web’s gatekeepers are tempted to go further and stamp out the free debate that helped alert Americans to the threat of the virus in the first place. They want to require conformity with the judgment of expert institutions, even as many of those institutions themselves woefully misjudged the situation months or weeks ago.

Over the weekend Medium, a web-publishing platform, took down a long article entitled “Evidence over hysteria—COVID-19” that had been viewed millions of times. The piece, by Silicon Valley technologist Aaron Ginn, was an exhaustive case for optimism about the coronavirus. It highlighted some of the most hopeful available estimates, mostly from good authorities, of the virus’s growth rate, severity, transmissibility, and responsiveness to warmer weather.

Those estimates may be wrong, and the piece doesn’t address more troubling evidence. Yet Mr. Ginn did not deny the virus is a public-health threat or urge people in hot zones to go to nightclubs. The page now says “this post is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules.”

Meanwhile, Twitter has unveiled sweeping restrictions on posts about the coronavirus. The company says it will restrict “content that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information.” If you click on the link to the Medium post from Twitter, you get a page warning it is “potentially harmful.”

The problem is that the situation is changing with blinding speed and so has “guidance from authoritative sources.” The World Health Organization—widely seen as subject to pressure from Beijing—tweeted in January that “Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus.” And while the U.S. public-health response has finally kicked into gear, organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have hardly been perfect oracles.

Twitter users and bloggers were sounding the alarm about the potential damage from coronavirus and inadequate testing before the authorities and major media. The idea that “democratizing information” leads to better outcomes is often exaggerated, but the freewheeling marketplace of ideas has sometimes performed better than the central authorities. The churn of arguments and data will improve the response to coronavirus as new information becomes available, and shutting it down may undermine public faith in the official response.

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BeatersRus said:

i saw that and splashed across the front of it was False/fake news tag.
it said this article has been fact checked by independent checkers and found to be containing false or fake information.
so i have no idea what it was about or if it was just false.

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Aarons Air said:

All this censorship leads one to wonder if uncle Sam is trying to keep a lid on something.

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BeatersRus said:

absolutely does make people wonder.
ive also noticed that some of my friends on the Fb on their personal page shave been getting whacked by fb.
same thing,fake/false news postings...
sure is a lotta people working for fb and sifting thru posts???
or did they program the computers to auto detect anyone posting about the virus ?

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