Posted on 04/01/2020 2:33:27 PM PDT by blam
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called for a nationwide shutdown in an effort to combat the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
The Hill reports that Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist has called on a nationwide lockdown of the United States in an op-ed in the Washington Post. Gates states that he has spoken with experts through his charity who have stated that national policy would be more effective than multiple states issuing stay-at-home others while others remain open. Gates argues that the country needs a “consistent nationwide approach to shutting down.”
Gates writes in the op-ed: “Despite urging from public health experts, some states and counties haven’t shut down completely. In some states, beaches are still open; in others, restaurants still serve sit-down meals.”
“This is a recipe for disaster. Because people can travel freely across state lines, so can the virus. The country’s leaders need to be clear: Shutdown anywhere means shutdown everywhere,” he added. “Until the case numbers start to go down across America — which could take 10 weeks or more — no one can continue business as usual or relax the shutdown.”
Gates also stated that while a vaccine for the virus could be available within 18 months, “creating a vaccine is only half the battle.” Gates wrote: “We can start now by building the facilities where these vaccines will be made. Because many of the top candidates are made using unique equipment, we’ll have to build facilities for each of them, knowing that some won’t get used.”
He added: “Private companies can’t take that kind of risk, but the federal government can. It’s a great sign that the administration made deals this week with at least two companies to prepare for vaccine manufacturing. I hope more deals will follow.”
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Maybe he;ll have better luck than he had with his revolutionary solar powered waterless toilets.
no different than Doomberg... corrupt liberal oligarchs like Bill Gates want power, to be a kingmaker... he’s making his move
he needs to go back to being a Microsoft geek and steal someone’s software.
Bill, tell us about your funding of corona virus research.
Yes, behind the glasses and the goofy smile lurks a totalitarian fascist!
He’s probably got the vaccine. It’s his virus.
FU Bill
“hey just stay in your huge mansion and relax. why do you all need to be out??
This man has never known what it’s like to struggle. He is from a very very upper middle class family and now? well...
The deep state is disappointed Pres Trump
did not Nationalize the manufacturing
in the country.
He asked manufacturing to help
and manufacturing said yes.
Now Gates wants to shut down manufacturing.
These people can’t have Pres Trump winning.
I’m sure, after running a simulation of this exact scenario in November, Bill is very happy that one of the companies in his stable might win the pharma lottery and would like to maximize America’s desperation.
Yes and he stated years ago that we need to reduce the world population by millions. Coincidence?
restaurants still serve sit-down meals.”
“This is a recipe for disaster
I’ll have my disaster Med.Rare and put on dumbazz Bill’s tab please.
People are looking at this all wrong. You can’t physically stop the spread of this virus. You are going to be exposed to it. Just accept that as fact. And you are going to become “infected” with it. There is nothing you can do to stop it. At that point, one of four things will happen:
1. You will not notice it at all
2. You will get mild symptoms
3. You will get sick and have a bad time for a while
4. You will die
Until there is either a “herd immunity” or a vaccine, that’s just how it is.
Period.
Bill Gates: Please be Hitler.
The reactor would use U238 as a fertile material to generate Pu239 fuel upon neutron capture. The reactor is envisioned to begin operation with enriched fuel located at one end of a cylinder. The system would experience a slow progression of the reaction zone moving along that cylinder of fertile material transformed to fuel over time.
LLC TRAVELING WAVE REACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573315301753
Bill Gates appears to have made off with his college roommate’s code-Windows. He was impressed enough to drop out of Harvard.
Then, there’s Jobs, who made off with Xerox’s GUI and mouse.
What a world.
As for Gates, I’m sure his heart bleeds for the little people and that he’s really going to suffer during a shutdown.
I felt sorry for him until he released all kinds of malarial mosquitos at a conference. That did it.
Event 201 - John Hopkins/Gates Foundation:
Updated 1 Apr: CBC: The flurry of daily pandemic data can be overwhelming. Here’s how to make sense of it
by Roberto Rocha
There’s no universal definition of a confirmed case
So, what makes a COVID-19 case official and part of the daily count? It depends on the country or region.
Some places define a confirmed case as one where a person was tested and the results were validated in a lab. Other jurisdictions consider a case confirmed if the patient exhibits all the major symptoms.
Sometimes, the definition of a confirmed case can change. Last week, Quebec changed how it counts new cases. Previously, a positive test at a hospital lab had to be validated at the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec. The second step has been eliminated, clearing a backlog of pending results. This resulted in a big jump in new confirmed cases...
There has never been, in the history of humanity, so much data shared globally as a public health crisis unfolds. This is truly the first data-driven pandemic...
Take the dashboard by Johns Hopkins University, one of the first and most authoritative COVID-19 trackers. Its centrepiece is a world map showing cases by region. It has been shared widely to illustrate how bad the situation is in the U.S.
What it doesn’t say is that in the U.S., cases are reported by county or city, while most other countries report a single number, or, in some cases, provide a breakdown by state or province, as Canada does.
This makes it look like COVID-19 is far more widespread in the U.S. than in other countries...
Corrections
•A previous version of this story referred to the number of people who died out of all those infected with the virus as the mortality rate. In fact, that is the case fatality rate.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-pandemic-data-primer-stats-charts-1.5513222
some may say it’s “the first data-driven pandemic”, BUT NONE OF THE DATA IS “REALIABLE” - Dr. John Ioannidis, epidemiologist, Stanford.
Oh, and an endless supply of cash from now to the end of time......
A shutdown would be no biggie for me.
I find his lack of hygiene disturbing.
Lame attempt at humor.
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