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2023-06-12 Science & Technology

Techno-Hell: Bill Gates Unleashing 30 Million Genetically Modified Mosquitoes on Colombia, Vietnam, Mexico

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-12 08:02|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-12 08:40|| 2023-06-12 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Massive tinkering with a natural biosphere. Good thing it's not a complex ecosystem or anything. What could possibly go wrong? Let's hope it works better than his operating system.

Posted by Warthog 2023-06-12 09:13|| 2023-06-12 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 How much did Gates have to do with the WIV?

His comments about how we have too many people and then things like this worry me.

Posted by AlanC 2023-06-12 10:38|| 2023-06-12 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 We already release billions of irradiated (sterile) mosquitos every year. Bacterial infection is another pathway to spread a self sustaining wave of sterility in the mating mosquito population. There is no genetic modification to the mosquitos or bacteria and this article is misleading and scaremongering.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-12 11:59|| 2023-06-12 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I get the feeling that NORAD should probably compile GPS coordinates for everything he owns.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-12 12:09|| 2023-06-12 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 They should trying clapping pots a the mosquitos.

Same mindset.

Posted by badanov 2023-06-12 12:15|| 2023-06-12 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Bacterial pesticides have been sprayed on crops for 100 years. Also used to kill mosquitos. You can even buy a bottle from the hardware or feed store.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-12 12:29|| 2023-06-12 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 WMP does not appear to provide readily robust proof that Wolbachia does not negatively impact people’s health—specifically, their reproductive health

Maybe you missed the embedded TED talk about 'gene drive', Enver.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-12 13:13|| 2023-06-12 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Evolution drives toward survival of the fittest. Eventually the surviving mosquitoes will develop resistance to the bacteria, just as they do to pesticides. That doesn't mean "super" mosquitoes evolve, only resistant to that agent. New biological and chemical pesticides will be developed, just as there are with human infectious agents. It's a race and human intelligence is faster than biological evolution.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-12 13:40|| 2023-06-12 13:40|| Front Page Top

#10 As far as affecting peoples' health, give a source. The article mentioned inflammation in cats and dogs but nematode infection will do that by itself.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-12 13:43|| 2023-06-12 13:43|| Front Page Top

#11 The US EPA did the required Health and Risk Assessment of this technology back in 2019 and posted it in 2020.

A fair number of studies were done. No adverse incidents.

Posted by lord garth 2023-06-12 20:21|| 2023-06-12 20:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Unlike the Fauci Flu vaccine....

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-12 21:57|| 2023-06-12 21:57|| Front Page Top

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