Hey Bill, wanna do-over for a REAL "Blue Screen of Death" ...?
Posted on 02/28/2020 3:01:53 PM PST by NRx
Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus that has killed at least 2,859 people and infected more than 83,700 globally may be the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
“I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise,” Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Gates and his wife, Melinda, founded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 to help improve world health and combat extreme poverty. The foundation announced Feb. 5 that it would donate $100 million to help find treatments and expand testing for the virus, particularly for poorer populations.
According to Gates, COVID-19 poses a serious threat to the world because it’s far more deadly and contagious than many other deadly viruses.
“First, it can kill healthy adults in addition to elderly people with existing health problems,” he wrote. “Second, Covid-19 is transmitted quite efficiently. The average infected person spreads the disease to two or three others — an exponential rate of increase.” World health leaders say the disease is spread by people who are mildly ill or don’t show any symptoms at all, making it harder to contain and more contagious than other types of viruses.
The mortality rate is “many times more severe than typical seasonal influenza,” Gates said. The World Health Organization said the mortality rate of COVID-19 can differ, ranging from 0.7% to up to 4%, depending on the quality of the health-care system where it’s treated. Gates said that its current average estimated fatality rate of around 1% places it somewhere between the 1957 Asian flu pandemic (0.6%) that killed 1.1 million people and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic (2%) that killed 50 million around the world, according to data from the CDC.
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Just how much does Bill Gates know about this Virus and when did he get this info?
Is he dirty?
Do you mind if I buy you life insurance, with me as the beneficiary:>)
Is that true?
Only if you promise to make a generous donation to FR.....
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‘....worried more about your Windows operating system getting a deadly virus.’
Agree. Gates referencing World Health Org. Tucker Carlson had segment on head of WHO. To say the least.... it did not instill confidence in his leadership or credibility.
Which explains why Mini-Mike did so F'ing well in the Dem debates, right?
sure will do.
I’ll be happy to vote for you. That way President Trump will get your vote no matter what!
My comment had nothing to do with the personality, stature, or popularity of politicians.
Don’t worry Poindexter, you will have a new 3/4 billion dollar Yacht to wait it out in the Pacific. The world will be yours to rule when it’s a said and done. This CLOWN is a one world order POS.
Hey Bill, wanna do-over for a REAL "Blue Screen of Death" ...?
100 million bucks? Nice gesture but, as has been shown recently, being worth billions of dollars doesn’t mean that you are intelligent enough to write in the AMA “Journal of Medicine.” I guess the Gates needed to get into the headlines.
If Gates is worth $50 Billion, $100 million is not much.
$50 Billion = 50 thousand million.
But, thanks Bill and Linda I had wondered where and what you were doing.
if gates wanted to become an expert in virology, he could, and for all I know he did. he is quite old now but he has been retired from day-to-day MSFT operations for a long time. He is quite intelligent and could very well have been educated in any number of topics by very competent teachers.
exactly.
it is likely he has been directly briefly by one or more experts in the field about this specific virus and was shortly after the genome was published. he almost certainly will have access to tentative research findings before posters on FR as well.
is this a serious question? one is being able to process data and be well-informed, the other is essentially a function of personality.
No, it was just nonsensical
You don’t seem to grasp the issue of billionaires being surrounded by fawning Yes-Men...
Bill Gates owns stock in the company that has the patent for the cure.
It is interesting that a non-medical professional was given space in a medical publication...
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