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“I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said…” (by disappeared whistleblowers?)
Bill Gates vehemently defended China’s initial response to the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, telling CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that the communist country – which silenced whistleblowers and lied about transmissibility – “did a lot of things right.”
“How would you respond to the charge that hte Chinese covered this up. They’ve essentially deceived the rest of the world, and as a result, they should be held in some way responsible for this?” asked Zakaria.
To which Gates responded: “Well, I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today. You know, 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 that they missed some things,” Gates said, adding “Some countries did respond very quickly and get their testing in place, and they avoided the incredible economic pain – and it’s sad that even the US that you would have expected to do this well, did it particularly poorly – but it’s not time to talk about that.”
Gates then suggested that this is the time “to take the great science we have, the fact that we’re in this together, fix testing and treatments and get that vaccine, and minimize the trillions in dollars and many things that you can’t even dimensionalize in economic terms that are awful about the situation that we’re in.
“That’s a distraction,” Gates added, regarding placing the blame on China. “I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said.”
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Ryan Saavedra on Twitter: “Bill Gates claims that criticisms of how China lied and covered up the coronavirus is a “distraction”: “China did a lot of things right at the beginning … they avoided the incredible economic pain … I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said”This is all a lie pic.twitter.com/RlbwV0fUcA / Twitter”
Bill Gates claims that criticisms of how China lied and covered up the coronavirus is a “distraction”: “China did a lot of things right at the beginning … they avoided the incredible economic pain …
We wonder why Bill Gates – one of the largest donors to the World Health Organization – is similarly defending China, which is also one of the WHO’s largest contributors.
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bill gates is shit
zerohedge is shit
What a bunch of bull… First things first: China warned the WHO and the United States on the 3rd of January 2020, that is only a few days after its healthcare authorities were notified by medical personnel of the first mysterious pneumonia clusters they managed to spot. That’s the very same day Li Weinliang was compelled to sign the infamous letter. So, we can safely say that whatever the reason that led to Li Wenliang being silenced, that reason didn’t impact on the chance for the rest of the world to become aware of the developing epidemic in China. So,… Read more »
I have found the story surrounding Li Wenliang somewhat odd from the beginning. He never blew the whistle, he talked to friends and colleagues in a private chat, which was then supposedly leaked by someone else. In a country that averages 35thousand deaths from all causes each day, 5 or 7 cases of pneumonia are hardly something that would anyone give cause to ring the alarm. Not even if tests came back as a coronavirus, since the common flu is caused by some of the many coronaviruses. China did do the right thing by testing and then isolating these cases,… Read more »
Voice of reason! This world needs more people like you, especially from the west. However there are so many people pretend to be blind and deaf, they just care about how to demonize China.
As shown in this article, the first patient to die of COVID-19 in the United States occurred much earlier than originally thought:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2020/04/tracking-covid-19s-first-appearance-in.html
This suggests that the virus was present in the United States not long after it made its first appearance in China.
China is a smokescreen, a convenient fall guy. Yes they had a hand in this by delaying the flow of information, and yes they as a country will recover better economically than those in the West and derive benefit from this, but they are not remotely the architects. The NWO/Globalists are clearly the main players here.
Why does what Bill Gates think about this mean a damn thing? It’s not like he’s a trained medical professional with decades of experience. Better yet arrest this evil & vile scum with an agenda for his many crimes against humanity, India & Africa are two places that come to mind where his outlandish crimes occurred.
This is one more of the China bashing articles that cannot accept that the US blunders and unpreparedness to the virus is just not China’s fault. The US had every capacity to analyze the atypical pneumonia of which some people died in early to mid January, but didn’t do so and instead now accuses China for not having discovered the virus that causes this type of pneumonia earlier! As to disappeared Chinese whistleblowers like Dr. Li Wenliang: he was not disappeared, he tragically died of the virus, as did some three other doctors that were part of the initial group… Read more »
China does not need the Devil’s Advocate, Bill Gates, to know what is right and what is wrong.