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Abdullah Al Qamzi
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
May 30, 2022
We have all heard and read about the claim that Bill Gates is planning to reduce the world's population.
And this was Gates' statement taken completely out of context, as the original statement was on the TED stage in 2010 and carried by an Irish newspaper run by a group of believers in the conspiracy at the time and no one paid attention to the news.
But when the Covid pandemic struck the world, a picture appeared to be from “Instagram” of a woman holding a copy of the newspaper “Sovereign Independent,” and the headline says: 2011 This news does not exist now, but thanks to this woman who kept a copy of the newspaper all these years.
The headline in the newspaper says: Reducing the world's population through compulsory vaccination.
How did the story begin?
Of course, all people heard, read, and circulated the false news published by the newspaper, which moved from the past decade to the present day on the back of the Instagram post or perhaps Facebook, but certainly no one knows what Gates said exactly.
“The world must reduce carbon emissions, and one of the proposed ways to do so is to reduce population growth by improving health care," Gates said.
what does that mean?".
Speech to Gates: “The world population is 6.8 billion people, and it is heading to nine billion, but if we improve vaccinations, the health care system related to childbirth and the care of women and children, we may slow down population growth by 10-15%.”
I mean - and Gates spoke about the poor countries in Africa - that "the people there do not trust health care, and therefore the man does not know if his children will live, so he gives birth to 10, for example, because he does not know who will die from diseases and who will live, and he is not satisfied with one or two." .
“But if we give this man an advanced health care system, he will not care about having 10 and will be satisfied with three or four, because he knows that they will live in light of the availability of vaccinations and treatments for the diseases that are rampant on the African continent, and thus we will slow population growth and reduce carbon emissions.”
In a video published in 2018, Gates confirms that in every country in the world, it has been observed that the more health care services improve, the lower or slower the population growth.
Regardless of whether we agree or disagree with Gates' vision, it is necessary to prove that the man did not say that he would reduce population growth by killing humans with compulsory vaccinations, as most people believed.
Attitude
The issue is very serious when a false news spread 12 years ago and returns to the fore in the form of a conspiracy theory. The danger here is that the matter does not require any effort, as the liar publishes one post that people grab and republish without checking.
The spreaders of rumors and conspiracy theories are immoral, as God Almighty described them in the noble verse: “O you who believe, if a sinner comes to you with news, make it clear that you will harm a people out of ignorance, then you will become regretful for what you have done.”
These immoral people spread fabricated, distorted words with fake images in Photoshop, destroying societies, spreading hatred and resentment among people by misleading, and causing a state of global anxiety and panic that undermines efforts to resolve crises.
• The issue is very serious when false news spreads 12 years ago and returns to the fore in the form of a conspiracy theory.
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