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Bill Gates: Pandemic is 'nightmare scenario,' but national response can reduce casualties.
Fox News ^ | 3.5.2020 | Ron Blitzer

Posted on 04/05/2020 8:53:12 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who warned five years ago that the world’s greatest threat was a pandemic, believes that the current coronavirus crisis is “a nightmare scenario,” but said social distancing and a strong national response can keep casualties lower than the numbers projected by President Trump.

Trump predicted that the U.S. could see between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from COVID-19 before the outbreak is under control.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billgates; bioweapon; bug; coronavirus; covid19; gates; microsoft; ms
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It's a feature, not a bug,,,
1 posted on 04/05/2020 8:53:12 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
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To: carriage_hill

Media still acts like this dropout is some sort of oracle of wisdom.


2 posted on 04/05/2020 8:54:16 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: carriage_hill

For Gates, it’s sort of a dream come true. He wants to decrease the surplus population.


3 posted on 04/05/2020 8:54:58 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep!


4 posted on 04/05/2020 8:55:29 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: carriage_hill

“Windows ME”


5 posted on 04/05/2020 8:56:04 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: carriage_hill

The big shock for Bill Gates will be how fast C19 is going to be brought under control....


6 posted on 04/05/2020 8:56:31 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: proust

He ruined MS by turning it over to foreigners, and he’s worthless as teats on a bull, in world situations.


7 posted on 04/05/2020 8:56:34 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Vista was a nightmare scenario.


8 posted on 04/05/2020 8:56:58 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: carriage_hill

Broadcasting from a bunker isolated in the deep forest, somewhere.


9 posted on 04/05/2020 8:57:34 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: carriage_hill

Meanwhile Gates has a patent on a Coronavirus biological weapon and its vaccine.

https://thedailycoin.org/2020/01/23/coronavirus-patent-granted-to-bill-gates-funded-institute-in-2018-gives-more-credence-to-the-theory-it-might-be-a-bioweapon/


10 posted on 04/05/2020 8:57:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: carriage_hill
Trump never predicted a number....not once...never....he only passed on numbers given to him.

Bill....go talk to Fauci about the numbers.

11 posted on 04/05/2020 8:58:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: proust

And the similarity between this - CV epiidemic and software selling is.....?


12 posted on 04/05/2020 8:59:06 AM PDT by Reily
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To: carriage_hill

Don’t mess with the Constitution anymore than it has already been messed with.


13 posted on 04/05/2020 8:59:06 AM PDT by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: carriage_hill

Just another Democrat Marxist thug.

All this death and destruction is a Democrat opportunity come true.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/01/14/sanders_campaign_organizer_free_education_gulags_needed_to_re-educate_you_not_to_be_a_fcking_nazi.html


14 posted on 04/05/2020 9:00:54 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: proust

Exactly - “says the software guy”. Ok. I’m a “software guy” too. Why should anyone listen to me?


15 posted on 04/05/2020 9:00:56 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: carriage_hill
Trump predicted that the U.S. could see between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from COVID-19 before the outbreak is under control.

No. Trump did not make that prediction. He's repeating what the models were showing.

Idiot reporting.

16 posted on 04/05/2020 9:01:56 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: carriage_hill

Don’t worry everybody, Gates say we will have the right to assemble again once we’re all vaccinated. So it’s all good.


17 posted on 04/05/2020 9:03:05 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: carriage_hill

If he’s such an expert on viruses, why do we need Norton, Kaspersky, etc., on his Windows systems?


18 posted on 04/05/2020 9:03:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.)
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To: Reily

If Dr Fauci came out and started talking about how to fix the Windows Registry, everyone would laugh.


19 posted on 04/05/2020 9:03:49 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Good one.


20 posted on 04/05/2020 9:04:17 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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