Why are we talking about depopulation through forced vaccination?
The usual suspects…
Let’s Talk About Depopulation Through Forced Vaccination
In this case, they continue to bring up an old TED Talk, from 2010, by Bill Gates in which he said that:
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”
Bill Gates
But what does that have to do with depopulation?
Well, it’s because for over 15 years, anti-vaccine influencers have misinterpreted his statement and twisted it into some kind of push for depopulation with vaccines.
Of course, that’s not what he meant.
Bill Gates was simply saying that people typically choose to have fewer children when the children they have are more likely to survive.
Now, if you consider the biggest factors affecting child survival in the world, then you might better understand what he was saying.
These factors include:
access to quality medical care
vaccination
safe childbirth
adequate nutrition
clean water and sanitation
And Gates covered many of them in his statement.
What else?
Many studies support what he was saying!
Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Behavior in Rural Malawi
Fertility choice, mortality expectations, and interdependent preferences—An empirical analysis
Lastly, Bill Gates was talking about reducing population growth, not killing anyone.
Again, Bill Gates was just saying that improved survival and access to family planning can change reproductive decisions and, over time, slow population growth.
When parents are confident their children will survive, they are more likely to choose smaller families.
And if your child is vaccinated, then don’t have to be as concerned that your child is going to die from neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, rotavirus, pertussis, Hib disease, pneumococcal disease, or measles, and you can be more confident that they will survive.
“A surprising but critical fact we learned was that reducing the number of deaths actually reduces population growth. Chart 3 shows the strong connection between infant mortality rates and fertility rates. Contrary to the Malthusian view that population will grow to the limit of however many kids can be fed, in fact parents choose to have enough kids to give them a high chance that several will survive to support them as they grow old. As the number of kids who survive to adulthood goes up, parents can achieve this goal without having as many children.”
Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2009
Things that Bill Gates explained in his Gates Foundation Annual Letter before his TED Talk!
“This means that improved health is critical to getting a country into the positive cycle of increasing education, stability, and wealth. When health improves, people have smaller families and the government has more resources per person, so improving nutrition and education becomes much easier. These investments also improve health, and a virtuous cycle begins that takes a country out of poverty. This was a huge revelation for Melinda and me. It is why we expanded our focus from reproductive health to all of the major infectious diseases. Today the foundation’s Global Health Program, which accounts for about 50 percent of our total spending, focuses on 20 diseases. The top five are: diarrheal diseases (including rotavirus), pneumonia, and malaria—which mostly kill kids—and AIDS and TB, which mostly kill adults.”
Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2009
A letter that doesn’t mention depopulation.
A letter that talks about saving lives.
Something that anti-vaccine influencers are working against when they promote their propaganda and scare people away from getting vaccinated and protected.
So Del Littleshrub is actually encouraging overpopulation when he squacks about “dangerous vaccines."