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BILL GATES' FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE: Praises China's Response to Coronavirus, Slams The U.S.
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Bill Gates Praises China's Response to Coronavirus, Slams U.S.
BY TYLER O'NEIL APR 29, 2020
3:47 PM EST
In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates dismissed calls to hold China’s Communist Party accountable for lying to the rest of the world and enabling the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Gates said China “did a lot of things right,” while slamming America’s response. He insisted that any move to hold China accountable would be a “distraction.”
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria noted that many in Washington, D.C. want to hold China accountable. “Far from cooperating with the second-largest economy in the world, it is China that is to blame for this virus,” Zakaria explained. “How would you respond to the charge that the Chinese covered this up, they essentially deceived the rest of the world, and as a result, they should be held in some way responsible for this?”
“Well, I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates said. “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, well, they missed some things. 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 U.S. — that you would have expected to do this well — did it particularly poorly.”
“But 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. 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 added. “So that’s a distraction.”
Gates is correct that testing, treatments, and a vaccine are more pressing issues than holding China accountable for the moment. He also advocated for reopening the economy in stages, as President Donald Trump has suggested. Gates has donated $20 million to help develop a vaccine in Africa.
However, China’s malfeasance cannot be swept under the rug. The British think tank the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) claimed that countries should sue China for breaking international law and demand trillions in damages.
“From the outset, the CCP tried to censor attempts by Chinese citizens to identify and publicise the truth concerning the origins, nature and dangers of the virus. Not all of these censorship efforts succeeded, and a considerable body of independent, corroborative data came to light,” the HJS report explains.
According to unpublished, unconfirmed Chinese government reports seen by the South China Morning Post, the first recorded case of the coronavirus dates to November 17, 2019, weeks before The Lancet‘s claim that the first recorded case came on December 1. By December 8, the SCMP documents recorded between 1 and 5 new cases. By December 27, the SCMP documents showed 181 confirmed cases, and a friend of coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang recalled that his medical department first reported the new outbreak to the Wuhan Center for Disease Control on the 27th.
CONTINUED AT:
[link to pjmedia.com (secure)]
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