Posted on 02/16/2020 5:33:57 PM PST by Enlightened1
The Microsoft founder spoke at the AAAS meeting in Seattle just hours before the first case was confirmed in Cairo, Egypt
Bill Gates has warned that coronavirus in Africa could overwhelm health services and trigger a pandemic which could cause 10 million deaths.
The Microsoft founder and global health pioneer was speaking at the AAAS meeting in Seattle just hours before the first case was confirmed in Cairo, Egypt.
There are now fears that the disease could spread to sub-Saharan Africa where it could spark an uncontrollable outbreak, with health services unable to monitor or control the virus.
Mr Gates said: “I wanted to talk about a special topic, which is this recent coronavirus epidemic.
“This is a huge challenge, we’ve always known the potential for an naturally caused, or intentionally caused, pandemic is one if the few things that could disrupt health systems and economies and cause more than 10 million excess deaths....
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Could be 10,000,0000 or 20,000,000.
China isn’t exactly the sub-Arctic.
I am afraid that is all wrong. AIDS is pretty much rampant there.
Bill Gates. The man who said “No one needs more that 640 KB of memory.”
Yeah, I trust everything he says...
Most of East Africa will die, if this thing is bad. In South Africa there will be the butchering of the whites, there might be some hope for Northeast Africa. But I doubt it.
And my guess is some of the million Chinese in Africa might have just brought it back from New Years.
Maybe next time we won’t screw them again.
The all knowing Bill Gates has joined the ranks of Al Gore.
here we go, and once it gets below the Sahara, well...
Your daughter is, unfortunately incorrect. The virus lives just fine in the heat. And I doubt there are an abundance of ICU beds in Africa. And finally, the only reason Ebola hasn’t broken out is because Africans are not globetrotters...and Ebola kills so fast it cannot get out of its own way.
This is a resilient and patient bug.
Rather Malthusian in it’s outlook.
Not a resilient one.
Is Singapore temperate? Nope...growing like a week there.
Exactly.
Ah someone who has read some of Thomas Malthus, I see a lot of things right now that play right into his thinking.
Bill still gives full-throated support to abortion and by his silence to jihad, in particular to mass murders of Christians worldwide.
Mr Gates supplied mosquito nets to Africa instead of DDT to kill the malaria carrying mosquito.
He is plucking that 10 million out of his backside.
Hell...I’m still using XP....
Liberals have such a stellar record of predication of what will transpire in the future. So we should all take what Bill Gates says as the gospel.
No, it’s just the flu. /s
YES!!!
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