Microsoft’s 65-year-old billionaire philanthropist who just keeps getting richer Bill Gates took another swipe at 74-year-old President Donald Trump before the Nov. 3 presidential election. Gates, whose net worth is estimated $114.7 billion, was supposed to give his fortune away through the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation, continues to rake in the cash far faster than he doles it out. One thing’s Gates dishes out faster than his obscene fortune is criticism of Trump for somehow not doing enough when it comes to the global novel coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 pandemic, now claiming 1,096,876 deaths worldwide with 221,843 deaths in the United States, more than double of any other country. Gates has criticized the White House’s response to the virus, complaining there’s not enough testing and contract tracing, something that might slow the spread of the disease.
Gates can’t really get straight what he’s unhappy about in the United States, knowing the 8,160,043 cases today is about 21% of the world’s cases, a staggering number when you consider the world’s population relative to the United States, about 4% of the world’s 7.8 billion population. Whatever the reasons the U.S. was hit harder than any other country, Gates wants to blame it on Trump, complaining about the White House approach to testing, contact tracing, supplies of personal protective gear, developments of vaccines and new treatments. Judging by Trump’s three-day cure for Covid-19 at Walter Reed Medical Center, using Regeneron’s polyclonal antibodies, Gilead Sciences anti-viral drug Remdesivir and powerful steroid dexamethasone, the U.S. has made dramatic progress when the virus was considered a death sentence for seniors and those with certain preexisting medical conditions.
Gates sees himself as the prophet of doom, warning an already shell-shocked public of more bad things to come. “The fall is going to be worse than the summer,” Gates told Politico, a liberal Internet news site that backs 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat nominee Joe Biden. Gates’s critique of Trump is so egregiously partisan, it can’t pass unnoticed. Gate’s Univ. of Washington Institute for Health Care Metrics and Evaluation [IHCME] has been notoriously wrong in all its forecasts about the Covid-19 global pandemic. Gates told 53-year-old Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom March 15 that 25.5 million or 60 % of residents would be infected May 15 with coronavirus, stretching the state’s health cares system to the breaking point. California today has 865,569 cases and 16,760 deaths today. Gate’s forecasts have been so off-the-wall, it’s driven Calif. into a $54.3 billion budget deficit.
Gates’ forecasts pushed Newsom to shut down major parts of the California economy, still not opening up businesses to start addressing the whopping deficits that threaten vital services, including education, health care, parks and recreation, infrastructure, homelessness, etc. All that because Gates’ warned the governor that “science” said he must shut down the economy or face even higher mortality rates.
“All the numbers are ticking up and there was always a very good chance . . .that we would see more transmission. Until the new tools come . . .all we have is our behavior, wearing masks,” Gates warned. Gates likes to slap the Trump administration, hoping that it causes enough voters to flock to Biden. But like former Washington Post journalist-turned-Democrat-political hack Bob Woodward, Gates finds everything wrong with the White House approach to the virus.
Taking Gates’ forecasts are worse that going to a boardwalk psychic and Tarot Card reader. Gates’ warnings whip the public up into a frenzy, hoping to drive votes away from Trump before the Nov. 3 election. When you hear, 80-year-old National Institute’s of Health Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci, he has much in common with Gates. Fauci has turned into a partisan Democrat hack, attacking the White House whenever possible. Fauci, like Gates, claims to be nonpartisan but his ire is frequently directed at Trump. Fauci ranted about a recent GOP ad featuring him saying that the White House has done everything possible to manage the virus back in March. Yet Fauci says he’s been “taken out of context.” Fauci was quoted in March telling the public to not wear face-coverings. While the video speaks for itself, Fauci denies he opposed wearing masks.
Now in the stretch run of the campaign, Democrats have enlisted everyone possible to rip Trump’s response to the virus. Gates and Fauci have become Trump’s foils, battling a corrupt media that grows more desperate by the day to get Trump out of office. “To beat the Covid-19 pandemic, the world needs more than breakthrough science,” Gates said. “It needs breakthrough generosity. “When Oovid-19 vaccines are ready, the funding and global coordination will ensure that people all over the world will be able to access them,” Gates said. Gates only reluctantly gives Trump’s Operation Warp Speed credit, pushing the world’s biggest vaccine makers to come up with a safe and effective vaccine. “It’s very impressive how the pharmaceutical industry has diverted resources, gotten involved,” Gates told NBC’s Chuck Todd, reluctantly giving Trump credit for pushing the vaccine along.
