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Reading Between the Lines

By Merinda Teller

Covid-19 Rogues’ Gallery

Covid-19 Since Covid-19 burst onto the scene early GREEDY GATES’ MAKEOVER
offers a highly this year, a handful of power-addicted indi- When Bill Gates stepped down as CEO
viduals has come to dominate the national and of Microsoft in 2000 and launched the Bill &
convenient international discourse about the purported Melinda Gates Foundation, his largesse im-
pretext for pandemic. Not ashamed to fan the flames of mediately began to lay the groundwork for a
a rapid fear to achieve their aims, big-headed figures massive public relations makeover, boosted by
reengineering like Bill Gates and Elon Musk—aided and purchased allegiance from media outlets such as
abetted by career toadies like the World Health NPR, NBC, the BBC, The Guardian, Le Monde
of society Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros and Al-Jazeera. Before Gates’ miraculous re-
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that few Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Anthony Fauci of branding as a homespun philanthropist, he was
could have the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious not a popular figure. As GQ wrote in 2015, “the
Diseases (NIAID)—are having a field day soft, cuddly Bill Gates of today hardly would be
imagined half prognosticating and telling the world’s citizens recognizable to veterans of the tech industry. . .
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a year ago. what they can and cannot do. (Note: Many other in the late 1980s and 1990s.” In his Microsoft
rogues could—and should—be called out in years, he was famed as an “office bully” who
connection with Covid-19, but for the purposes “seemed to thrive on conflict, always pressed
of this article, the focus is on this particular for advantage, and even schemed to dilute his
“Gang of Four.”) [business partner’s] stake in the company when
Although theories about Covid-19’s origins, [his partner] was ill with Hodgkin’s disease.”
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causes, severity and solutions differ [see articles Among personal computer users, Gates was
in this issue of Wise Traditions], one thing has also widely reviled for his dysfunctional, virus-
become increasingly apparent to many: Co- prone operating system (with suspected intel-
vid-19 offers a highly convenient pretext for a ligence community backdoors) and the brutally
rapid reengineering of society that few could monopolistic practices that eventually landed
have imagined half a year ago, nor would likely him, in 1998, in an antitrust lawsuit with the
be acquiescing to now without the amped-up Department of Justice and twenty states. After
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threat of THE VIRUS. Thus under cover of initially losing the lawsuit, Gates finagled a deal
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“virus mania,” this band of merry men—along in 2001 (details never disclosed) that let him off
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with numerous partners in government and the the hook with barely a hand slap.
medical-pharmaceutical-biotech cartels—has As the corporate media got busy repurpos-
been seizing every opportunity to market long- ing Gates as an affable philanthropist eager to
desired Orwellian interventions. The dystopian give his fortune away, Gates focused on cement-
vision with which they openly aspire to seed the ing the various agendas and relationships that
planet includes 24/7 surveillance and tracking, have converged to propel him to his current
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forced quarantines, immunity certificates, Covid-19 notoriety—despite the lack of medical
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nanotech implants, mass vaccination and training or any other relevant credentials that
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brain-machine interfaces —a no-way-out might justify his draconian medical and social
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agenda that would cheerfully relegate individual prescriptions. From the start, a particularly
sovereignty and constitutional protections to the critical component of the Gates agenda has
historical dustbin. been his incessant promotion of vaccination.
In 2000, Gates helped launch the Global Alli-
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