Fox News @BillHemmer Bill Gates said, “Don’t assign blame on China now, put your focus on a vaccine. It is just a distraction when you start to ask questions about a coverup. Pillsbury said, “Bill Gates is a billionaire who made a lot of money in China & is trying to help China.” pic.twitter.com/cODD3HTwrS
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Fox News @BillHemmer Here is Peter Navarro with heavy charges leveled at China. “China spawn that virus, they hid it for 6 wks. They could have contained it in Wuhan & they didn’t. They seeded the world with 100s of Chinese getting on aircraft to Milan to New York…” pic.twitter.com/grnHyPB3gF
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You have to think there is something seriously wrong with Bill Gates covering up and defending the Chinese Communist Regime’s unethical and nefarious practices by releasing a deadly virus worldwide. Sending 100s of 1000s of innocent people to their graves and those surviving going through a horrific experience of their life. ~ Natalie
Coronavirus & China — Bill Gates Dismisses Chinese Coronavirus Coverup: ‘It’s Not Even Time for That Discussion’ | National Review
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called allegations that China cost the world valuable time by covering up the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus a “distraction” in an interview Sunday, adding that “China did a lot of things right at the beginning.”
Speaking to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Gates pushed back on criticism of Beijing’s initial response, saying “I don’t think that’s a timely thing, because it doesn’t affect how we act today.”
“It’s not time to talk about that, this is the time to take the great science we have, the fact that we’re in this together, fix testing, treatments, and get that vaccine, and minimize the trillions of dollars and many things that you can’t even dimensionalize in economic terms that are awful, about the situation that we’re in,” Gates stated. “So that’s a distraction, I think there’s a lot of incorrect and unfair things said, but it’s not even time for that discussion
A detailed timeline of Beijing’s response to the virus’s origins in Wuhan shows that the government gagged the spread of information about the virus for weeks after it had first been noticed, with health officials being warned privately of “a major public health event” nearly a week before the public was alerted to the threat.
U.S. intelligence believes that China purposefully misled the global community on the extent of its coronavirus outbreak, with one study finding that the government could have prevented 95 percent of coronavirus infections if it had acted sooner to stem the initial outbreak. Last week, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention admitted to state media that the government “knew there must be human-to-human transmission” of the novel virus, despite his organization saying January 15 that “the risk of sustained human-to-human transmission is low.”
When asked about the World Health Organization’s culpability on Sunday, Gates said “basically no,” pushing back on President Trump’s claim that the organization is “very China-centric.”
“In the retrospective, we’ll see things the 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,” Gates stated. He went on to call the WHO a “phenomenal organization that we’re more dependent on today, to drive things, than we ever have been.”
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