Reminder to those praising Bill Gates: you’re missing the point.
IT SHOULD NOT TAKE UNILATERAL ACTION BY ONE MULTIBILLIONAIRE to take this step towards solving the problem.
Government action is either absent (Khazakstan), actively malignant (USA), or reactive (China, EU/UK). /1
IT SHOULD NOT TAKE UNILATERAL ACTION BY ONE MULTIBILLIONAIRE to take this step towards solving the problem.
Government action is either absent (Khazakstan), actively malignant (USA), or reactive (China, EU/UK). /1
Building hospitals in a week: great! Good!
Ramping up ventilator/PPE/test production: also good!
But these are *reactive measures*.
Govts are trying to get out in front of the economic crash, but show little sign of trying to do so wrt. the pandemic/vaccine problem. /2
Ramping up ventilator/PPE/test production: also good!
But these are *reactive measures*.
Govts are trying to get out in front of the economic crash, but show little sign of trying to do so wrt. the pandemic/vaccine problem. /2
What Gates is doing is so glaringly obvious that if this was a normal US government, the CDC would have announced it a month or two ago.
That they didn’t is a stunning indictment of the Trump junta’s fundamental worthlessness and total incompetence in a crisis.
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That they didn’t is a stunning indictment of the Trump junta’s fundamental worthlessness and total incompetence in a crisis.
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