Bill Gates: Entire country must shut down for 6-10 weeks to fight coronavirus(geekwire.com)
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Bill Gates: Entire country must shut down for 6-10 weeks to fight coronavirus
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Gates is right. Without a clear, unified message from news orgs, I don't see how anyone will overcome influence from Chambers of Commerce & similar special interests.
Correct me if I'm wrong, there were some rumours around Bill gates regarding illegal clinical trials in third world countries.
Without doing any research: much like how mastercard supplied negerias ID cards (which double as credit cards). there is often no real alternative route for these government to get things like healthcare, so i highly doubt that there would be illegal trails rather than legal trails (be they against international agreements or not).
You're wrong. There I've corrected you.
"This is kind of the nightmare scenario," says Bill Gates, who warned about the dangers of a pandemic in 2015. "[I] talked about how we needed to invest in new platforms so that we could quickly make diagnostics, make drugs and make vaccines to stop an epidemic.
- Bill gates.
Bill gates, a smart individual as we all know, should have preferred "prevention" than chasing for cure.
hmm hmm.
As always it's an intellectual mind that plays with mind of weaklings.
There were news and posts in the past about illegal trials being carried out in third world countries funded by whom!
Shutting down the entire country of 300 million people for 2-3 months puts a lot people at the risk of losing their jobs, homes and not even having enough to eat. With a country where guns are legal, and 20% having no health insurance, there will be some who have nothing to lose and cause civil unrest. Bill Gates is a Billionare, he probably doesn't feel the pain of someone working to make ends meet. I know neighbors and friends who are rock bottom right now.
I would rather see an approach of locking out the known hot spot areas. Stop all travel from hotspots unless someone tests negative. Running millions of tests periodically to see where hotspots are and managing them in an organized fashion. Meanwhile the rest of country practices strict hand washing and social distancing where possible.
Ideally when the virus was causing havoc in China, our airports and borders should have stopped all non-essential travel immediately. Every person that comes in should have been tested and put in a 2 week monitored quarantine.
We were just too late to get the testing ramped up, with enough protective gear for those who need it.
I really hope there is an effective Vaccine soon. Or someway to figure out who will have very mild symptoms and induce the virus to them in a controlled fashion such that millions of us develop immunity to it and are certified as "covid-19 safe workers". Herd immunity is not a bad idea, we just don't know why some people have a mild reaction and others need ICU.