Here’s a lesson for you computer geeks out there: Stick with your transistors, and stay the heck out of medicine.
Bill Gates — world’s richest man, even if he’s shed a few billion over the past year — has hatched a bizarre plot to vaccinate millions of Third World children. He’s either got a lot of Big Pharma stock he needs to pump up, or he’s the world’s most gullible computer genius.
Gates is donating $10 billion - on top of $4.5 billion he’s already committed — to pay for things like malaria vaccines.
You want to save these kids? Keep them far from vaccines. I’ve spent a lot of time caring for children in clinics in Africa and Central America, and the last thing I want to see is some wealthy know-it-all poking these poor kids like they’re voodoo dolls.
Since Gates is the inventor of the Microsoft operating system, he should know a thing or two about bugs. And in this case, the real problem isn’t malaria…it’s the mosquitoes that carry and transmit it.
We solved the mosquito problem decades ago. Then we unsolved it when we let the treehuggers ban DDT, the safest and most effective pesticide the world has ever known.
Don’t listen to the enviro-wackos — there’s no real proof DDT causes birth defects or cancer, and no evidence that it’s harmful to eagles or any other bird.
But it’s hell on mosquitoes.
Drain the swamps these bloodsuckers call home and then pump them full of DDT — you’ll have malaria-free zones and much more pleasant places to live. A $10 billion gift could go a long way toward making that happen.
I may not have a billion dollars, but I do have some advice for you, Bill: Go back to making software for geeks, and let those of us who REALLY know what we’re doing deal with the bugs.
Crashing the system,