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| Bill Gates's treasonous defense of China - why? |
| 2020-05-04 |
| [American Thinker] Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently called the United States government’s coronavirus testing data "bogus" because of testing inequality and slow turnaround, with three to four days to get results. Earlier in the week, President Trump, during a news conference, came under fire from a reporter who claimed that South Korea had tested more people per capita than the U.S. The Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, who was present, defended the president, saying: "I just want to make it clear that South Korea’s testing was 11 per hundred thousand [residents], and we’re at 17 per hundred thousand." This matches the latest statistics at Worldometers, which maintains a constantly-updated database of coronavirus statistics globally, by country, down to the state level. Seems there's not enough bad to say about testing, and Gates was out front in that effort. The tech tycoon had previously taken a swipe at the president for publicly castigating China for its cover-up of the coronavirus. During a Sunday interview on CNN, Gates not only argued that it is not time to be questioning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CPC) efforts in handling the COVID-19 outbreak, but went so far as to dispel any wrongdoing by the communist regime: "China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say where they missed some things. You know, some countries did respond very quickly and get their testing in place, and they avoided the incredible economic pain. It’s sad that even the U.S. that you would have expected to do this well, did it particularly poorly. But it’s not time to talk about that." President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed the CCP for its mishandling of the outbreak, criticizing the country for restricting domestic travel to slow the virus but not international travel to keep it from spreading abroad. On Thursday, Trump went so far as to indicate that China may have intentionally released the coronavirus. Based on evidence he claims to have seen, the president is now speculating that the origin of the infectious disease came from a lab in Wuhan, the epicenter of the Chinese outbreak. He said the U.S. now "is finding how it came out.... It’s a terrible thing that happened. Whether they made a mistake or whether it started off as a mistake and then they made another one, or did somebody do something on purpose." Besides hanging the testing deficit around Trump, Gates had also found Trump’s move to slash funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) a biased mistake: "In the retrospective, we’ll see things that WHO could have done better, just like every actor in this whole picture. But the WHO has a strong connection with one country. That country is the United States. The number of CDC people who are there, people who used to work for the CDC, there’s no U.N. agency more connected to a country than WHO is to CDC." WHO, an agency of the United Nations, has been criticized for its chummy relationship with the CCP, including its role in manipulating a Chinese study that claimed the coronavirus could not spread between humans. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 China did a lot of things right at the beginning, You know, some countries did respond very quickly If China hadn't responded quickly in December and January when the China virus was still vulnerable the disease could have been contained and eradicated with little effort. The CCP's protection transformed this virus from a biological oddity into the agent of a global pandemic. The CCP did indeed quickly come to the aid of the virus. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-05-04 19:33 |
| #10 M. Murcek, it seems I did. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2020-05-04 12:42 |
| #9 Wasn't it like Windows 7 and all the pirated copies being made in China was pointed out and Gates was like, "Oh that's fine. You better pay full price though." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-04 10:55 |
| #8 The Walton family has as big a fortune as any of these jokers. Why is it that they manage to keep their mouths shut and not pontificate about non-business matters? We have hundreds of billionaires who have the decency and modesty to recognize that they have no expertise outside of cornering a market or exploiting globalism. It's only this handful of Little Big Men -- Mini-Mike, Christmas necktie guy, Sweater-Kermit, Soros, the Libbetrarian Kook Brothers -- only these six out of some 600 who think they're entitled to dictate public policy on anything. Is narcissicism really that widespread? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-04 09:46 |
| #7 Why is this shithead considered an authority on anything Because, like Tom Steyer, Mikey Bloomberg and the remaining Koch brother (and many more) he has "experts" who whisper what he wants to hear into his ear. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-04 09:25 |
| #6 Why is this shithead considered an authority on anything aside from gaming the antitrust laws? What's his biomedical expertise? Who elected him to anything? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-04 09:18 |
| #5 Will no one rid us of this pestilential |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-04 09:16 |
| #4 You spelled "megalomania" wrong. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-04 09:07 |
| #3 M O N E Y!! |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2020-05-04 08:24 |
| #2 Follow the money. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-05-04 04:42 |
| #1 Because people are incapable of objectivity when it comes to their personal interest? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-04 04:32 |