Billionaire Bill Gates, who believes the public will soon have “digital certificates” to display their health and vaccination status, has called for an “extreme shutdown” in America to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
“It’s very irresponsible for somebody to suggest we can have the best of both worlds,” the Microsoft co-founder said in an interview with TED on Tuesday. “What we need is an extreme shutdown so that in six to 10 weeks, if things go well, then you can start opening back up.”
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Yahoo Finance reports: Gates noted that while isolation in populated areas — along with widespread testing — is difficult and “disastrous” for the economy, “the sooner you do it in a tough way, the sooner you can undo it.”
President Donald Trump recently argued that restrictions should be loosened by Easter Sunday, April 12, with healthy people returning to work while people who are sick remain isolated.
“The expression ‘We can do two things at one time,’ … and that includes not just economics, that also includes life and death,” Trump said. “We have to keep it that way.”
The U.S. stock market and economy have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. And the financial situation is becoming increasingly problematic for millions of Americans as unemployment claims rose to an historic 3.2 million for the week that ended March 21.
Trump asserted that the U.S. “wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this,” adding: “America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting.”
‘It’s very tough to say to people … ignore that pile of bodies’
Experts — including those in Trump’s inner health care circle — have cautioned strongly against loosening precautionary measures too quickly, as it would lead to more catastrophe in the longer term.
“If you look at the trajectory of the curves of outbreaks and other areas, at least going to be several weeks,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on March 20. “I cannot see that all of a sudden, next week or two weeks from now, it’s going to be over. I don’t think there’s a chance of that.”
One former government official concurred. “I think the president needs to be listening carefully to our medical professionals,” former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade, later adding: “Once you’ve done that, then it’s perfectly appropriate to listen to the economic side.”
Gates echoed that view without naming Trump specifically.
“There really is no middle ground, and it’s very tough to say to people: ‘Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts,’” Gates said. “It’s very hard to tell people when there’s an epidemic spreading… that they should go about things, knowing that their activity is spreading this disease.”
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
when did bill gates become and expert?
He’s rich and so an expert on everything or so his type seem to believe….
Back in 2005 when He and Soros help create this Bio weapon working with the Wuhan company …
Do your homework folks ….. ( Fall Cabal (needs to be converted to english, learn how to do that too or George Webb )
and wash your hands….lol
I have !
Very true, he owns the patent on this virus.
Digital Certificates ? WTF is he on about ?
The IT Salesman back in business I see….
No Chips in the Vaccines he is creating ….
More Mark of the Beast than IT sales. Much more!
Compulsory vaccination(s) globally and everyone will have to have a digital certificate, inserted into their arm otherwise they won’t be allowed to go anywhere there are crowds – shopping malls, sports events or go to work or get on aeroplane. Children will have to have them to go to school. Total control of the population while for Gates and his cronies the money will pour in and it won’t be just one vaccination – regardless of the harm they cause – there are a number of diseases that Gates and co. believe they can make money from.
Do not We have to have the vulnerable isolated for that length of time It makes no difference to a virus if its police and nursed and doctors driving about and going out for free coffes and furies and emergency workers or plumbers or sparkies or hairdressers or whoever mingling about While people are transmitting the virus it’s being transmitted It doesn’t care what job they do. And you cannot shut everything down, so be sensible and quarantine the vulnerable. And I don’t believe viruses magically dissappear or die off in ten weeks I’m quite sure billions of people have had it already and are already developing immunity
Is that how long it takes to completely destroy all small businesses, forcing any of worth to be bought out by corporations?
Said the multi-billionaire from his $500,000,000 bunker.
Why don’t you just try and get the viruses out of your software!!
Bill Gates is a semitic terrorist.
I will never comply with unconstitutional orders.
Does it provide the viral count passed on in it’s child raping prisons it runs?