As For Drugs - Well, Gates Was

Vaccines Are A Miracle; They're Fantastic. Anything That Makes People Hesitate To Give Their Children These Vaccines According To The Recommended Schedule Creates Risk. Risk For The Children Who Don't Get Vaccinated And Risk For Children, Some Of Whom Don't Have An Immune System, So They're Benefiting From The Fact That The Community Protection Means The Disease Doesn't Get To Them.

It’s Useful To Compare Our Preparations For Epidemics With Our Preparations For War.

(in Response To Java) Anybody Who Thinks A Little 9,000-line Program That's Distributed Free And Can Be Cloned By Anyone Is Going To Affect Anything We Do At Microsoft Has His Head Screwed On Wrong.

If You Withdraw The Incredible Focus On Polio, It Will Spread Back, And In Poor Countries You'll Get Something Like 100,000 Cases A Year. So By Being Very Intense And Getting The Cases Down To Zero, What You Do Is You Avoid All The Future Cases.

If You Get Health, Then You Have Opportunity For Literacy. Health First, Then Literacy. Once You Have Literacy, Then You Have A Chance To Bring In The New Tools Of Communication. Let People Reach Out And Have Access To The Latest Advances.