Bill Gates and Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly spoke as part of a panel discussion on Feb. 18, 2022, at the Munich Security Conference.
A transcript of the panel discussion is available here.
A video of the panel is embedded below:
The transcript contains statements such as:
“Well, the, uh, you know, sadly the virus itself particularly the, the variant called Omicron is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B cell and T cell immunity and it’s done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines. (…) And you know, it’s sad we didn’t do a great job on therapeutics, you know, only here two years in, do we have a good therapeutic, vaccines. It took us two years to be an oversupply. Today there are more vaccines than there is demand for vaccines, and you know that wasn’t true. And next time we should try and make it instead of two years, we should make it more like six months. Which certainly you know some of the standardized platform approaches, including mRNA, would allow us to do that, so, you know it took us a lot longer this time than than it should have.” — Bill Gates
“[W]hat is the downside of wearing a mask? I mean it’s got to be tough, you know you have to wear pants. I mean, this is tough stuff. These societies are so cruel. Why do they make you wear pants? I’m trying to figure it out.” — Bill Gates
“Well, we are very, very concerned with, and I’m very concerned with the issue of disinformation and misinformation, to, when it comes to the pandemic, when it comes to our democracy, let’s start with the pandemic. We know that vaccine hesitancy is linked also to the fact that there are social media campaigns that are spreading false information regarding the origin of the virus, its impacts, and also the you know, the impacts of vaccines. We see that throughout the world this is having an impact in democracies and in countries which have, and Comfort could talk more about that, but have had some
issues in terms of trusting their public health authorities, but this entire misinformation, disinformation campaigns are…” — Melanie Joly
