The Highwire with Del Bigtree - BILL GATES REVEALS THE HIGHWIRE WAS RIGHT

Episode Date: May 21, 2022

Bill Gates’ new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, hit the shelves this week and statements he’s made on his press tour about the Covid-19 response sound curiously similar to what The Highwire was saying back in early 2020. Take a look!#BillGates #HowToPreventAPandemicBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Well, it was a big week in the book world, one of the most anticipated books, maybe in our lifetime. I'm not talking about Harry Potter. I'm talking about Bill Gates' new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. I know, I know you've been like waiting, you know, holding your breath. I don't know how my copy didn't get to me. I'm reserved for this for so long. I'm about to press charges against Amazon. I don't know what's going on there.

But no matter the fact, Bill Gates has his book out that apparently somebody on this, planet wants to read. I don't know why. But he's doing his book tour, starting to talk about what we know now versus what we know then, you know, the genius inside of the mind who like the computer guy that was a health guy or whatever the heck he is. He's out there. He's made some comments. I want to talk a little bit about that. I want to talk about what do we know, what do we not know, and what does it mean to be intelligent on the planet Earth in the day and age that we now live in? Take a look at this. It wasn't until early February when I was in a meeting that experts at the foundation said,

there's no way. There's been too much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this. And then at that point, we didn't really understand the fatality rate. We didn't understand

that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that. Isn't it amazing when you end up hearing things said like that as though, like here on May.

He's in May, 2022 saying, we had no idea that there was like this really low fatality rate, as it turns out, and it was really just a disease of the elderly. Really? We didn't know that? Because we looked back in our archives and I kind of remember saying that while it was all going on. Let's just sequester or quarantine those that are most vulnerable, the seniors and the immune suppressed. This is really only a tragic situation for a small group of people that are immune suppressed or elderly. Do you see how gigantic this would be? And to imagine that when we move

into the future, how do we move forward? We all talked about it last week. It's hanging in the balance. Do we continue to destroy the economy of America right now? Or do we open it up? If you're under the age of 65 and you're relatively healthy as, as, you know, was being described in that report, you're really going to have almost no symptoms or it'll be like a mild cold. That was misinformation then. That was complete misinformation. We were losing YouTube channels and Facebook channels for saying exactly what Bill Gates is now in 2022 after locking us down, destroying the world is admitting. Yeah, I mean, as it turns out, it was a really low fatality rate. What did we know then, though? How did I know that? I mean, was I psychic? Or were we just

reading you things like this from the NIH. This is May 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, what we know. Here's what we knew. As of 11th of February, total of 1,715 medical workers had been infected, of which five had died with a crude case fatality rate of 0.3%. The case fatality, the currently reported cases in China is less than 4%, which implies that so far this novel coronavirus does not seem to cause the high fatality rates, previously. observed for SARS-CoV and MERS COV, 10% for the first and 30% respectively. There were other articles that went on to talk about, you know, the fact that, you know, those that are dying really aren't dying for the reasons that we think.

In fact, this is the CDC all way back August of 2020. 94% of COVID-19 deaths had underlying medical conditions that went on to say they had more than two comorbidities. I've talked about this ad nauseum. This isn't new to anybody. that's been watching the high wire. But if you're brand new to the high wire, maybe it's a bit shocking to think right at the back of this pandemic.

We were telling you, these numbers aren't what you're being told. And then, of course, Johnny Yonidis, one of the great epidemiologists in the world, looked at data from around the world. This is the article that he wrote about that. A fiasco in the making. As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.

He goes on to say, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general US population vary from about 0.05% that's case fatality rates to 1%. That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. Why don't we figure out what's going on? Well, maybe the problem Bill Gates had was that he was reading his own press. Maybe he wasn't actually paying attention to to what we actually knew, but he was lost in who he was investing in and who was in funding to scare the hell out of us, like the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation boosts vital work in the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. He gave them $279 million back in 2017 to be able to use them to get really valuable information. So let's see how valuable the information Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was with four Oistering upon the planet Earth early on, as he said, when we didn't know what the actual fatality rate was. Well, here's what he was projecting through the IHME. This is really interesting. This is April 4th of 2020.

Now, here they're projecting that all beds needed, that purple line, that by April 4th, 164,745 beds will be needed. Of those ICU beds, there'll be 31,000 ICU beds needed on that day in America. And then for the invasive ventilators, we're going to need 24,848. This was Bill Gates' brain trust here. This is where he was living and breathing and eating popcorn and drinking coffee and trying to figure out how to end the pandemic we were in. But what were the numbers when we really look at them? Here's the actual numbers of April 4th.

Instead of 31,000 projected ICU beds, we actually only needed 5,200. He was only off by 596%. And then in the overall total, the 164,745 projected hospital beds needed, we actually only ended up using 22,158 actual beds. There, he's off by 743%. And then in the projected ventilators, the things that were used to kill people, 9 out of 10 people died while using them, they projected they needed 24, nearly 25,000 of these death machines. they only ended up using 656 on April 4th. That was out by 3,800%. So perhaps the problem Bill Gates had

was he was too involved with scaring us all to actually get a grip on the reality we were actually living in. Here's another video, and just brace yourself for this statement. There was a lot of uncertainty about, for example, school shutdowns. To this day,

You know, there's still arguments about how many cases that avoided. It's pretty clear because young people don't get sick from the disease very often, that we probably, if we knew everything we know today, we would have shut schools down a lot less than we did during this pandemic. I mean, yes, it's tricky for the elder adults. It's tricky in a lot of ways. And you mean by that high school and under? Exactly.

You know, for college, going virtual tends to work awfully well. The infection levels are a little higher as you get up into that age group. But K through 12, we have a learning deficit that will take us a long time to erase that. And sadly, it's a deficit where the inner city is where it's almost two years. Suburban schools less, private schools in some cases, like my kids, almost no deficit at all. Really? Your kids no deficit at all. What a shocker. Oh my God, you had a school where your kids did just fine, Bill. Meanwhile, the rest of us that were saying these lockdowns are racist. We were all being called racist for coming out against the lockdown, saying this is going to destroy our children's lives, destroy their education, drive them to depression and suicide, all things that are happening in astronomical numbers. And now he's telling us he finally figured out that as it turns out with a group of children,

the children, had almost no risk whatsoever to the disease. But we locked them down anyway. And, you know, surprise, surprise. They're behind by like two years, ready to slit their own wrists. But don't worry. My kids did just fine. All right, well, let's just look at it. Does he really learn something?

I mean, since he's reflecting back on what he didn't know, the high wire knew it. And anybody with intelligence, you know, above about 40 IQ could fix it. figure out what's going on. But now he's written a book because he's looking at the future for his next pandemic. I mean, the next pandemic. And let's see what some of the statements are coming from this book. You're right? Choice quotes from Bill Gates' new book. Oh, I jumped the spot, didn't I? Let's go back. Let's go back to like where I missed the part where we were going to like sort of brag that Highwire is right. Did we know the school should be shut down? Here's what we were saying back then. I mean, every scientist around the world has been saying this doesn't affect children.

It's really the elderly. We know this for a fact. Wuhan China, they said people are dying everywhere, but none of the children are getting it. Remember all of those discussions? It's been circling the world. We've had different explanations. Some because we know the virus attaches to ACE2, which children apparently have a very low level of age 2. Maybe that's the reason.

Or maybe they just have really bad ass interfere on. Let's protect those that are truly at risk over the age of 65, other comorbidities like heart disease or COPD, diabetes, perhaps even obesity. Let's look at those that have severe autoimmune issues. Let's protect them. Let's lock them down. Let's keep them in mask. Let's make sure that they're safe while we send our children back to school, why the health they get back to work so that we can reach. And yes, the words are now being said in the capital of the United States of America.

natural herd immunity. I mean, that was it, that we were looking at the science. We knew that children were at almost zero risk whatsoever right in the heart of China. No kids were getting this thing or dying. It wasn't an issue. Why did we lock down the schools? It made no sense. It made you question what's really happening in D.C.?

Who's in charge? I mean, is the president demanding that we lock everybody down? Or is that just Tony Fauci, Deborah Birx, all of which whom have been on the board for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Well, I remember something that the president said seemed to allude to the fact that he thought we should open up the schools. Hey, young kids have a very strong immune system. Nobody even knew it. Get your children back to school. Get them back to school. I don't care. This isn't a political show. I don't care what you think of Donald Trump or Joe Biden. That's not what this is actually about. The point is just simply, we knew we should have been open. We knew the kids had

amazing immune systems and that they should be in school. Yet Bill Gates and everybody kept promoting this idea of locking them down and now all of a sudden they're waking up. So let's get to his book. Let's get to the statements he's making. Has he learned something? Does he realize that, you know, many of those tactics didn't work? These are chose quotes from Bill Gates' new book. The human suffering caused by these separations is incalculable, literally. No one can put a number on the pain of not being able to say goodbye in person. But the policy saves so, many lives, that it will be worth adopting again if the circumstances call for it. Of course, I'm sure he's talking about not being able to visit people in the hospital that

were dying, this incredibly inhuman thing that we did over the last couple of years, and doctors were in on it, I guess, like grinning to themselves that your mom's going to die and you're never going to get to see her again or your father or your uncle or your brother, and the hospital's blocked because they didn't want you catching this cold or spreading this cold, even though I guess you could have taken a test there. We get it. But now Bill Gates is saying as horrific as that is, and I feel for you. I do. And my kids that are still well-educated feel for you, too. But the point being that we may have to do this again because it was so successful. Really, Bill? Really? Let me just show you the most recent article. We've played this on the show. We showed you this on the show. But how successful were lockdowns? This is John Hopkins University. I think they know what they're doing. A literature review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality looking across the world. Here's what we learned. While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to know public health effects, I don't know what Bill Gates is saying they're highly effective. Every study is telling us this. They have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument. These costs to society must be compared to the benefits of lockdowns, which our meta-analysis has shown are marginal at best. Such a standard benefit cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion.

Lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument, period. Full stop. That's Johns Hopkins. I don't know where Bill Gates is at, but I guess if it doesn't affect your family, then it didn't affect anybody that bad. Sorry about grandma. Sorry about your dad. Sorry about your mom. I'm sure they would have loved to tell you.

They love you. They knew that. They died. Just know that. Okay. So look at this quote. are a great example. The evidence is clear that they reduce transmission. I don't know what he's talking about. And that stricter lockdowns reduce transmission more than looser ones do. But they're not

equally effective everywhere because not everyone is able to comply by staying in one place. He goes on to say lockdowns may be necessary. He loves this in places where the disease burden is modest. They're also more effective in countries where residents have less of a voice in the country's affairs. We really like totalitarian dictatorships. That's where they are really putting my mind. into place. And the government is in a position to strictly enforce lockdowns and other mandates. That's where it really rocks. If only were actually true. The truth is, I could show you New Zealand that had a zero COVID policy. We told you that wouldn't work. It didn't work. They had infections go through the roof. Australia, same thing. And these were islands, right?

These were islands. I mean, if anyone was going to pull off zero COVID, it would be them. But he's saying the stricter they were. I mean, how strict did you need to be? How about Taiwan? Taiwan was insanely strict. Taiwan and Ireland, if you're ever going to try and pull off zero COVID, that would be the place to do it. How long will Taiwan stick to its zero COVID approach? This is amazing. Zero COVID they went for. In fact, I remember threats of fines if you weren't wearing a mask, like huge fines or not social distancing. I mean, they were crazy about this. They went for it. And they kind of had that type of, you know, government where if you don't do what you're told, you know what's going to happen. Well, how is Taiwan doing?

Well, a month ago, you know, they were having a little bit of an outbreak again. Now, their worst previous outbreak during their zero COVID policy happened between February and September of 2021. They had a little bit of spike there. They got up to 600 confirmed cases at the seven-day rolling average. Well, last month in the middle of April, they had gone back to that spot, which was really alarming because they were working so hard at zero COVID. Everybody was double and triple masking.

Everyone was getting their vaccine. you know, but the thing is, it should have gone down, right? I mean, all of those measures work because as Bill Gates says, the stricter the lockdowns, the better. Unfortunately, one month later, I want to show you where this is at. And I want you just, before I change, just take note of between February and September. Remember that, what? Remember how big.

That was like their biggest, what? They had one back in January 28, that little guy right there. Then February, that was a doozy. February to September there, 2021. Let's look at where they're at right now. All right, take a moment to grasp this. We're not in the hundreds anymore. They're up above 35,000 confirmed cases in the last seven days.

And that giant whip they had between February and September, look at that thing. That's like a flat line compared to where they're at now. This is what serious lockdowns have done to Taiwan, put them at risk, and now there's infections freaking everywhere. Lockdowns don't work. Masks don't work. Bill Gates is an idiot. so is anyone who buys his book.