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    The Pandemic warnings

    Why can’t a billionaire actually say something correct, true, factual, sincere, earnest, and good? Why can’t a billionaire actually be authentic and honest?

    Why can’t social media consumers recognize fact from fiction? Why can’t social media users say: that fact is correct. Just because billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and Elon Musk constantly deceive and manipulate about medical science, why do people have to jump to the simple binary conclusion that all billionaires are always wrong.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

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    Friday April 3, 2015
    “The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED”

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      Why oh why can social media users since December 2019, in year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 not say / not communicate the most simple factual statement about the situation? Why let RFK Jr and Donald Trump billionaires spokesmen speak for anti-science and anti-goodness and not point to science information being used as a warning to be prepared?

       

      “Bill Gates was correct to warn everyone, to pull the alarm bell in April 2015 about pandemic preparation”

       

      "It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992