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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.