Bill Gates said he urged Donald Trump to get the nation ready for a pandemic just weeks before he entered the White House.
The Microsoft co-founder said he met with then-President-elect Trump at Trump Tower in December 2016 and claims he now feels guilty for not being more vocal.
“I feel terrible. The whole point of talking about it was that we could take action and minimize the damage… I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger.“
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“I chose, when I met with people all the way up to the top, in Europe, in the US, around the world, to talk about this pandemic risk,” the Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire told the Wall Street Journal
A year before Gates gave a TED Talk warning that the world was not ready for a pandemic
RT reports: Gates says that while many world leaders agreed with his advice in principle, few took any action to prepare, prompting him to begin looking for potential solutions on his own.
“Whenever I asked about respiratory viruses, like how important are schools and if you do shutdowns, how much can you drop the transmission, and even… do masks actually help or not?” – such questions had no solid answers, he said.
Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000, the tech entrepreneur and his wife have divided their attention between a number of pressing health crises around the world, including financing treatments for the Ebola and the Zika viruses, and now mitigating the effects of Covid-19. The foundation has devoted some $250 million to fighting the illness – which Gates calls “the most dramatic thing ever in my lifetime” – with hopes of ultimately finding a vaccine.
“Every day, it’s, OK, are we going to run out of glass vials?” he said, describing the day-to-day tasks involved in seeking a cure. “You may think that’s a simple part of it, but nobody’s ever made 7 billion vaccines.”
Gates and his role with the foundation have come under fire, with some critics accusing the billionaire of wielding too much influence over the global health community, at times even helping to decide which illnesses take priority over others. But the Microsoft mogul insisted “All we do is we spend our money, and we share our opinions,” adding “We’re not making the decision at the end of the day.”
Niamh Harris
HAHA haha sure bill , sure you did.
Ishe honest?Who invented windows ?Why us the multi billion dollar court case so hushed up by the media most of the world havent a clue about the truth? Not a clue just one side of the story Why ? How come the truth us so easily buries So easily with all of the alleged free and in dependent honest trustworthy independent
non msm media ?Is it the editors and moderators or the journalists?
He stole Windows from Xerox … I wouldn’t trust billy g for anything.
Get bent. little man.
Exaaactly
You’re just a techie….fix the viruses in your operating systems!!!
shut up Bill! you psychopathic drama queen. and i do mean queen.
He has been busily investing heavily in research, that is giving the money he ribbed from us to some employees to do the actual work ,into funding new vaccines for as yet to he discovered viruses And if course that’s how you find put how to make untreatable viruses By researching how to ‘ cure ” them It s all about image and tax deductions which so help bankrupt the government Two birds
No Gates ran like a bitch to Trump Tower and begged Tuump not to Research V Vacinnes. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1c4c9d4a9ee3a221420e5e5da381dba8dde91e554e5cb5981efa393d44b1ab8c.jpg
Because YOU KNEW it was GONNA happen, right, Bill? GFY ………….