Bill Gates, COVID-19, and Catalytic Philanthropy

We received an unusually high response from our recent post COVID-19, Bill Gates and NJ Pharma – Is the Gates Foundation Self-Dealing? Our subscribers asked for more. This is part two of a growing series on Bill Gates’ web of money, control and global influence and how it is affecting everyone’s life.

Before we can begin to make assertions that today’s COVID-19 Pandemic is being weaponized for various political and personal agendas, we must first go to an article written in Science Magazine on June 29th, 2018. The first two paragraphs of that article stated, “A key congressional spending panel has fired a shot across the bow of two federally chartered medical foundations, warning that the way they disclose information about donors may not pass muster. It’s the latest controversy involving the traditionally low-profile foundations, which over the past quarter-century have funneled nearly $2 billion to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for research, clinical trials, training, and educational programs. Congress created the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the CDC Foundation in the early 1990s to raise private funds to support federal biomedical and health research.

It hoped to encourage transparency and prevent potential conflicts of interest by specifying in the law that the foundations had to report “the source and amount of all gifts” they receive, as well as any restrictions on how the donations could be used. But last week, legislators on the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH and CDC expressed concern that the foundations may not be following those disclosure rules, which are spelled out in the Public Health Service Act (PHSA).” 

Further, the article stated, “It’s not hard to see why legislators might think the foundations aren’t being sufficiently transparent. For example, both list anonymous donors without specifying the size of their gifts. Their annual reports also group donors by the approximate size of their donation—without listing the exact amounts. As a result, those “buckets” can be misleading. In 2016, for example, FNIH listed eight donors who each gave more than $2.5 million, its top category. But a separate report FNIH filed with the Internal Revenue Service reveals that one of those donors gave $19.1 million. (The filing does not name the donor, but FNIH told Science it was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington.).” 

It is evident that based on our current state of affairs concerning COVID-19, there are explicit conflicts of interest about both the CDC and the NIH. Now fast forward to 2019, and there was something called Event 201 sponsored by John Hopkins University, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Economic Forum. From the website that details this event, it states the following:

“The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18th, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.”  In addition, under the section of the website called recommendations we can point to something that should give all of us cause for concern.

“Governments and the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods to combat mis- and disinformation prior to the next pandemic response. Governments will need to partner with traditional and social media companies to research and develop nimble approaches to countering misinformation.