Hang on a minute.

Take another look at the Gates statements.

I'm not a frequent user of any of these social media sites, so I'm not sure which one this comes from - if it does at all.

I say that because now that I'm having a second look, just before mailing this out, I see that every one of those statements has "12m" in the first line.

Why would that be?

There's also a disconnect between him saying he has tested positive and will isolate until healthy, followed by saying the Gates Foundation "is coming together today."

How can he be self-isolating and meeting with the Gates Foundation for the first time in two years?

Now, I did see a clip today of Gates being interviewed on French television, and he came out with a blatant lie.

He said it was "the unvaxxed" who are dying. That's a man dedicated to pushing needles into every body on the planet.

Given his absolute fanaticism about population reduction, can we really imagine him saying "we will continue working with partners and do all we can to ensure none of us will ever have to deal with a pandemic again."?

I suppose I could have just dropped these two images once I had that second look and got all suspicious.

But there's a lesson here. It made me realize, yet again, that it's too easy to accept something at face value if it appears to say what we want to hear.