A bad flu year is 80,000 deaths in America (with no closures or mitigations). We've had at least 570,000 deaths in America so far (100,000 under 50 years old). This does not take into account the closures and mitigations that are not used during regular flu outbreaks. If you want to know how America would look if we did literally nothing to mitigate Covid-19, look to Brazil currently. The death rate in America would be much higher. B117, P1, and B1351 variants are much more infectious and somewhat more deadly; also affecting the young much more as seen in Israel, Brazil, UK, Canada and elsewhere. Then there is long covid which effects anywhere from 13% to 28% of all symptomatic or asymptomatic cases in all age groups even the youngest under 10 years of age. You are truly an ignorant idiot.
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Bill Gates warns of next pandemic
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A bad flu year is 80,000 deaths in America (with no closures or mitigations). We've had at least 570,000 deaths in America so far (100,000 under 50 years old). This does not take into account the closures and mitigations that are not used during regular flu outbreaks. If you want to know how America would look if we did literally nothing to mitigate Covid-19, look to Brazil currently. The death rate in America would be much higher. B117, P1, and B1351 variants are much more infectious and somewhat more deadly; also affecting the young much more as seen in Israel, Brazil, UK, Canada and elsewhere. Then there is long covid which effects anywhere from 13% to 28% of all symptomatic or asymptomatic cases in all age groups even the youngest under 10 years of age. You are truly an ignorant idiot.
If Gates is so clever telling us all a new pandemic is coming how come he never warned the world 14+ months ago of the present one?
Generals always fight the last war...
Bill Gates (The software salesman): Smarter than actual scientists that have been doing this stuff there entire career.
Not.
Not a single brilliant scientist anywhere on the world warned +14 months ago. So what's the difference between them and Gates?
Actual scientists that have been doing this stuff there entire career were not better in predicting or warning.
"Five years ago, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates gave a TED Talk about global pandemics, warning that the world was not ready to take one on."
He did better than all these scientists.
I'm not going to watch this video. But as someone with a Biology degree I can tell you that Bill Gates is correct, and it doesn't really take a lot of knowledge of medical history, ecology, biology and epidemiology to hypothesize that there will be more pandemics. We can think about the costs of the current pandemic and decide if preparations of various kinds are worth it from a cost/benefit perspective. But to live in denial and ignorance (like a lot of commenters on this thread) isn't really an option.
You are truly an ignorant idiot.
You got that right.
Back in middle of last year Turveyd was posting on here that the UK and US had both reached herd immunity, without any proof and ignoring all the evidence that showed we were no where even close to herd.
Not a single brilliant scientist anywhere on the world warned +14 months ago. So what's the difference between them and Gates?
Actual scientists that have been doing this stuff there entire career were not better in predicting or warning.
Scientists have been talking about the potential for global pandemics for a long time. I had Biology professors in college in the 80s talk about future pandemics. A quick Google search will help you start a list of scientists who have talked about the potential for pandemics. What isn't possible is to know exactly when a pandemic will start... kind of like predicting when the next correction or crash of the stock market will happen. Gates isn't an expert on Pandemics but he listens to those that are. Seems like a lot of commenters on this thread could benefit from learning to listen to experts rather than parroting social media falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
One of the most respectable people on earth. Donated his vast fortune so your fucking wife and retarded child get the treatment they so urgently need. What have you invented lately to save humankind, you human scum?
Bill Gates developed an operating system. He's NEVER worked in medicine. Moreover, he stole from Paul Allen and is a piece of garbage as a human. The OP and everyone else who thinks this guy's opinion is worth a damn shows just how STUPID these people are.
One of the most respectable people on earth. Donated his vast fortune so your fucking wife and retarded child get the treatment they so urgently need. What have you invented lately to save humankind, you human scum?
Solving climate change by buying a private jet company and shorting Tesla.
What have you read lately? Which billions have you donated lately? Which software company have you founded?
Laughing my ass off how the lowest rats and despicable human beings, infested with alcoholism, mediocrity, drugs and unemployment bark up the tree of one of the most benevolent to humanity person.
Laughing my ass off how the lowest rats and despicable human beings, infested with alcoholism, mediocrity, drugs and unemployment bark up the tree of one of the most benevolent to humanity person.
Ah, yes, let's take advice from someone who thinks Gates is brilliant because of a Netflix documentary and because he/she/it/whatever has read a few articles that came up at the top of a Google search. You can't make this stuff up....
If anything, he has atoned for any past sins a multiple times over through his philanthropy.
Some of you can't be helped with your corrupted moral compass.
Some of you can't be helped with your corrupted moral compass.
You don't get it, but that's cool. You are not privvy to the old shit.
I wish I could find the senate hearings he went through during this time.
Hail your savior scumbag businessman!
Then you must equally hate all mankind as nobody is without sin, including you. Isn't it more important how someone finishes off his life than how they started it? Look at the loser Steve Jobs who lived a selfish life and died like the selfish pick he was all his life. In contrast Bill Gates changed his life completely. A saint in my book.
Tai Lopez also 'apparently' reads loads of books a week, he's also a 'brilliant businessman' but nobody is interested in what he's got to say (thankfully) - apart from all the mugs that buy his shite.
Bill Gates might be a brilliant businessman but if he was born 5 years earlier/5 years later nobody would have heard of him. Sure, he'd probably be successful but right time right place.
PS. He also tried to stiff Paul Allen out of his rightful share of MSFT, when Allen had or was recovering from cancer no less. What a charming man...