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DandelionPowderman
Three people at the office infected now.
One day left of the max incubation period. Fingers crossed
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MisterDDDD
An actual billionaire that understands science and facts.
He's estimating the length of shutdown needed at six to ten weeks, provided there's an increase of testing etc.
Bill Gates says the US missed its chance to avoid coronavirus shutdown and businesses should stay closed
“The U.S. is past this opportunity to control (COVID-19) without shutdown,” Gates said during a TED Connects program broadcast online.
“We did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the shutdown.”
“It’s January when everybody should’ve been on notice,” Gates added. The virus was first discovered in December in China."
[www.cnbc.com]
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.....Talk is Cheap.
All I want to hear from the mega-rich is how much money they are giving to research, how many people they are financially supporting during the shut-down and/or how they are financing the production of more respirators, masks and other critical supplies.
Sean Penn was on the news saying how the military needs to intervene.
blah, blah, blah...What I need is do-nothing Hollywood ToolBags telling us what to do....give me a break.
Take a look at Haiti if you want to see a place that Sean Penn "helped"...
Dear Hollywood, Pro Sports, Rock Stars and MegaRich Corporate Hacks - Close your mouths until you open your wallets.
....if you can't handle the latter, then just do the former.
That being said....Doctors without Borders is an outstanding charity, if anyone is interested.
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Nate
Probably some of these mega rich people have made financial donations but they don’t advertise it.
Nate
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MisterDDDD
An actual billionaire that understands science and facts.
He's estimating the length of shutdown needed at six to ten weeks, provided there's an increase of testing etc.
Bill Gates says the US missed its chance to avoid coronavirus shutdown and businesses should stay closed
“The U.S. is past this opportunity to control (COVID-19) without shutdown,” Gates said during a TED Connects program broadcast online.
“We did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the shutdown.”
“It’s January when everybody should’ve been on notice,” Gates added. The virus was first discovered in December in China."
[www.cnbc.com]
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.....Talk is Cheap.
All I want to hear from the mega-rich is how much money they are giving to research, how many people they are financially supporting during the shut-down and/or how they are financing the production of more respirators, masks and other critical supplies.
Sean Penn was on the news saying how the military needs to intervene.
blah, blah, blah...What I need is do-nothing Hollywood ToolBags telling us what to do....give me a break.
Take a look at Haiti if you want to see a place that Sean Penn "helped"...
Dear Hollywood, Pro Sports, Rock Stars and MegaRich Corporate Hacks - Close your mouths until you open your wallets.
....if you can't handle the latter, then just do the former.
That being said....Doctors without Borders is an outstanding charity, if anyone is interested.
Read the articles.. [thehill.com]
He's donated $100 million already, Has a foundation that is acquiring testing.
On top of all his other philanthropic endeavors.. Educate yourself, in the time it took to type.. "blah blah blah etc" you could have had the facts.
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Nate
Probably some of these mega rich people have made financial donations but they don’t advertise it.
Nate
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jlowe
There seems to be some confusion over the Statistics, especially re the situation in Italy.
At today's date:
-Total cases = 69176
-Total deaths = 6820....so roughly 10% mortality rate.
Clearly not all Cases have been recorded. In addition there is obviously a lag between new cases recorded and deaths.
As horrendous as these figures are, if Italy has 'passed the peak'( which I personally am less confident about than some people), the final death toll may not be on the scale that was predicted a few weeks ago.
Down to the measures taken? Too pessimistic?
Who really knows.
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jlowe
There seems to be some confusion over the Statistics, especially re the situation in Italy.
At today's date:
-Total cases = 69176
-Total deaths = 6820....so roughly 10% mortality rate.
Clearly not all Cases have been recorded. In addition there is obviously a lag between new cases recorded and deaths.
As horrendous as these figures are, if Italy has 'passed the peak'( which I personally am less confident about than some people), the final death toll may not be on the scale that was predicted a few weeks ago.
Down to the measures taken? Too pessimistic?
Who really knows.
Italy do not have time to test, just those who arrive to hospitals, so making a calculation like this is totally wrong. They have no idea how many people do actually have the virus now. This goes for most countries, very few are able to test every person in their population, and may be 50% don't even show any symptoms, like seen where they test everyone.
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stickyfingers101
I read the article YOU (originally) posted, bud.
[www.cnbc.com]
it said nothing about this donation...
in the time it took you to insult me by implicitly calling me "uneducated" you could've just posted the follow-up article and said "he gave $100m according to this article" and skipped the insult...
whatever....
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With all Sincerity: $100m is a very nice donation. Thank you, Bill. Good start. Keep it up....exponentially, please.
However, just to put it in perspective:
a) this donation is from his Foundation...not his pocket...there's a difference (though he does fund about 1/2 to 2/3 of the Foundation)
b) Bill Gates is worth around $100 BILLION...which is more than 122 COUNTRIES are worth....it's the GDP of Slovakia
in other words, money is essentially NO object to him...
Perspective: if you spent $1 PER SECOND....it would take you 32 YEARS to spend ONE Billion.
As stated: It's a nice donation...thank you for educating me w/ the follow-up article.
I'm glad he gives...something is always better than nothing....but, it should be taken in perspective.
Simply put, Bill can (and should) do more. Full stop.
good luck to you. I hope you are healthy and safe.
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crholmstrom
The Bill Gates Foundation is also spending much money on research into immune system maladies such as RA, lupus & others. The goal is to eradicate them. Right now there is no cure for RA. It's like cancer in a lot of ways. Some lucky people go into remission but it doesn't go away. There are a lot of variations of RA. For some of us, its like the sword of Damocles dangling over our head. He & his wife Melinda do much good work with their fortune. I wish more of the mega rich had their attitude. The world would be a much better place.
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stickyfingers101
I read the article YOU (originally) posted, bud.
[www.cnbc.com]
it said nothing about this donation...
in the time it took you to insult me by implicitly calling me "uneducated" you could've just posted the follow-up article and said "he gave $100m according to this article" and skipped the insult...
whatever....
Follow up Comments:
With all Sincerity: $100m is a very nice donation. Thank you, Bill. Good start. Keep it up....exponentially, please.
However, just to put it in perspective:
a) this donation is from his Foundation...not his pocket...there's a difference (though he does fund about 1/2 to 2/3 of the Foundation)
b) Bill Gates is worth around $100 BILLION...which is more than 122 COUNTRIES are worth....it's the GDP of Slovakia
in other words, money is essentially NO object to him...
Perspective: if you spent $1 PER SECOND....it would take you 32 YEARS to spend ONE Billion.
As stated: It's a nice donation...thank you for educating me w/ the follow-up article.
I'm glad he gives...something is always better than nothing....but, it should be taken in perspective.
Simply put, Bill can (and should) do more. Full stop.
good luck to you. I hope you are healthy and safe.
Posted both prior. His foundations work, his philanthropy, and his commitment to giving away the bulk of his wealth before he dies are well known. By most.
Glad you got caught up.. he's been actively funding and working on health issues for twenty years.
More here, in which he essentially predicted this.
[www.mercurynews.com]
"Although he began his career as a computer programmer, Gates, 64, has devoted much of the last 20 years to public health and medicine.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, is run by three trustees: Bill and his wife Melinda Gates, and financier Warren Buffett. Since it was established 20 years ago, the foundation has contributed more than $6 billion to medical research and health care, focusing on treatment and prevention of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and other diseases, particularly in Africa and some of the poorest parts of the world.
On Feb. 5, the foundation announced a $100 million donation to fund research and development of drugs and other treatments for COVID-19.
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stickyfingers101
I read the article YOU (originally) posted, bud.
[www.cnbc.com]
it said nothing about this donation...
in the time it took you to insult me by implicitly calling me "uneducated" you could've just posted the follow-up article and said "he gave $100m according to this article" and skipped the insult...
whatever....
Follow up Comments:
With all Sincerity: $100m is a very nice donation. Thank you, Bill. Good start. Keep it up....exponentially, please.
However, just to put it in perspective:
a) this donation is from his Foundation...not his pocket...there's a difference (though he does fund about 1/2 to 2/3 of the Foundation)
b) Bill Gates is worth around $100 BILLION...which is more than 122 COUNTRIES are worth....it's the GDP of Slovakia
in other words, money is essentially NO object to him...
Perspective: if you spent $1 PER SECOND....it would take you 32 YEARS to spend ONE Billion.
As stated: It's a nice donation...thank you for educating me w/ the follow-up article.
I'm glad he gives...something is always better than nothing....but, it should be taken in perspective.
Simply put, Bill can (and should) do more. Full stop.
good luck to you. I hope you are healthy and safe.
Posted both prior. His foundations work, his philanthropy, and his commitment to giving away the bulk of his wealth before he dies are well known. By most.
Glad you got caught up.. he's been actively funding and working on health issues for twenty years.
More here, in which he essentially predicted this.
[www.mercurynews.com]
"Although he began his career as a computer programmer, Gates, 64, has devoted much of the last 20 years to public health and medicine.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, is run by three trustees: Bill and his wife Melinda Gates, and financier Warren Buffett. Since it was established 20 years ago, the foundation has contributed more than $6 billion to medical research and health care, focusing on treatment and prevention of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and other diseases, particularly in Africa and some of the poorest parts of the world.
On Feb. 5, the foundation announced a $100 million donation to fund research and development of drugs and other treatments for COVID-19.
There are people in the world that are never happy. Bill Gates isn't doing enough.
What a load of bullshit that is. And YOU are doing what, exactly? Staying inside?
Athletes, musicians and actors should keep their mouths shut? Perhaps just regular ol' people should, too. Seeing that athletes, musician and actors are people...
I know someone that's denying things about it, and supports an orange mop's denial and lies about it, that is 72 years old and considers it nothing worse than the flu and, really, nothing like the flu at all.
The willful ignorance and arrogance, typical American, of course, blows my mind.
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jlowe
There seems to be some confusion over the Statistics, especially re the situation in Italy.
At today's date:
-Total cases = 69176
-Total deaths = 6820....so roughly 10% mortality rate.
Clearly not all Cases have been recorded. In addition there is obviously a lag between new cases recorded and deaths.
As horrendous as these figures are, if Italy has 'passed the peak'( which I personally am less confident about than some people), the final death toll may not be on the scale that was predicted a few weeks ago.
Down to the measures taken? Too pessimistic?
Who really knows.
Italy do not have time to test, just those who arrive to hospitals, so making a calculation like this is totally wrong. They have no idea how many people do actually have the virus now. This goes for most countries, very few are able to test every person in their population, and may be 50% don't even show any symptoms, like seen where they test everyone.
And that is exactly why there is no way to accurately calculate the death rate.
And the percentage will eventually be less and less as more people get tested etc.
Not to mention all the people that have it and don't even know it. And will never get tested.
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Nate
Probably some of these mega rich people have made financial donations but they don’t advertise it.
Nate
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crholmstrom
The Bill Gates Foundation is also spending much money on research into immune system maladies such as RA, lupus & others. The goal is to eradicate them. Right now there is no cure for RA. It's like cancer in a lot of ways. Some lucky people go into remission but it doesn't go away. There are a lot of variations of RA. For some of us, its like the sword of Damocles dangling over our head. He & his wife Melinda do much good work with their fortune. I wish more of the mega rich had their attitude. The world would be a much better place.
Hey Mr. CR all is well?
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stickyfingers101
I read the article YOU (originally) posted, bud.
[www.cnbc.com]
it said nothing about this donation...
in the time it took you to insult me by implicitly calling me "uneducated" you could've just posted the follow-up article and said "he gave $100m according to this article" and skipped the insult...
whatever....
Follow up Comments:
With all Sincerity: $100m is a very nice donation. Thank you, Bill. Good start. Keep it up....exponentially, please.
However, just to put it in perspective:
a) this donation is from his Foundation...not his pocket...there's a difference (though he does fund about 1/2 to 2/3 of the Foundation)
b) Bill Gates is worth around $100 BILLION...which is more than 122 COUNTRIES are worth....it's the GDP of Slovakia
in other words, money is essentially NO object to him...
Perspective: if you spent $1 PER SECOND....it would take you 32 YEARS to spend ONE Billion.
As stated: It's a nice donation...thank you for educating me w/ the follow-up article.
I'm glad he gives...something is always better than nothing....but, it should be taken in perspective.
Simply put, Bill can (and should) do more. Full stop.
good luck to you. I hope you are healthy and safe.
Posted both prior. His foundations work, his philanthropy, and his commitment to giving away the bulk of his wealth before he dies are well known. By most.
Glad you got caught up.. he's been actively funding and working on health issues for twenty years.
More here, in which he essentially predicted this.
[www.mercurynews.com]
"Although he began his career as a computer programmer, Gates, 64, has devoted much of the last 20 years to public health and medicine.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, is run by three trustees: Bill and his wife Melinda Gates, and financier Warren Buffett. Since it was established 20 years ago, the foundation has contributed more than $6 billion to medical research and health care, focusing on treatment and prevention of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and other diseases, particularly in Africa and some of the poorest parts of the world.
On Feb. 5, the foundation announced a $100 million donation to fund research and development of drugs and other treatments for COVID-19.
There are people in the world that are never happy. Bill Gates isn't doing enough.
What a load of bullshit that is. And YOU are doing what, exactly? Staying inside?
Athletes, musicians and actors should keep their mouths shut? Perhaps just regular ol' people should, too. Seeing that athletes, musician and actors are people...
I know someone that's denying things about it, and supports an orange mop's denial and lies about it, that is 72 years old and considers it nothing worse than the flu and, really, nothing like the flu at all.
The willful ignorance and arrogance, typical American, of course, blows my mind.
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GasLightStreetQuote
MisterDDDDQuote
stickyfingers101
I read the article YOU (originally) posted, bud.
[www.cnbc.com]
it said nothing about this donation...
in the time it took you to insult me by implicitly calling me "uneducated" you could've just posted the follow-up article and said "he gave $100m according to this article" and skipped the insult...
whatever....
Follow up Comments:
With all Sincerity: $100m is a very nice donation. Thank you, Bill. Good start. Keep it up....exponentially, please.
However, just to put it in perspective:
a) this donation is from his Foundation...not his pocket...there's a difference (though he does fund about 1/2 to 2/3 of the Foundation)
b) Bill Gates is worth around $100 BILLION...which is more than 122 COUNTRIES are worth....it's the GDP of Slovakia
in other words, money is essentially NO object to him...
Perspective: if you spent $1 PER SECOND....it would take you 32 YEARS to spend ONE Billion.
As stated: It's a nice donation...thank you for educating me w/ the follow-up article.
I'm glad he gives...something is always better than nothing....but, it should be taken in perspective.
Simply put, Bill can (and should) do more. Full stop.
good luck to you. I hope you are healthy and safe.
Posted both prior. His foundations work, his philanthropy, and his commitment to giving away the bulk of his wealth before he dies are well known. By most.
Glad you got caught up.. he's been actively funding and working on health issues for twenty years.
More here, in which he essentially predicted this.
[www.mercurynews.com]
"Although he began his career as a computer programmer, Gates, 64, has devoted much of the last 20 years to public health and medicine.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, is run by three trustees: Bill and his wife Melinda Gates, and financier Warren Buffett. Since it was established 20 years ago, the foundation has contributed more than $6 billion to medical research and health care, focusing on treatment and prevention of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and other diseases, particularly in Africa and some of the poorest parts of the world.
On Feb. 5, the foundation announced a $100 million donation to fund research and development of drugs and other treatments for COVID-19.
There are people in the world that are never happy. Bill Gates isn't doing enough.
What a load of bullshit that is. And YOU are doing what, exactly? Staying inside?
Athletes, musicians and actors should keep their mouths shut? Perhaps just regular ol' people should, too. Seeing that athletes, musician and actors are people...
I know someone that's denying things about it, and supports an orange mop's denial and lies about it, that is 72 years old and considers it nothing worse than the flu and, really, nothing like the flu at all.
The willful ignorance and arrogance, typical American, of course, blows my mind.
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jlowe
There seems to be some confusion over the Statistics, especially re the situation in Italy.
At today's date:
-Total cases = 69176
-Total deaths = 6820....so roughly 10% mortality rate.
Clearly not all Cases have been recorded. In addition there is obviously a lag between new cases recorded and deaths.
As horrendous as these figures are, if Italy has 'passed the peak'( which I personally am less confident about than some people), the final death toll may not be on the scale that was predicted a few weeks ago.
Down to the measures taken? Too pessimistic?
Who really knows.
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MisterDDDD
Yeah.. no doubt we all could do more sticky.
I'm gonna go ahead and cut him a break, based on the facts, he's doing better than most.
"In August 2010, 40 of America’s wealthiest people joined together in a commitment to give the majority of their wealth to address some of society’s most pressing problems. Created by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, the Giving Pledge came to life following a series of conversations with philanthropists around the world about how they could collectively set a new standard of generosity among the ultra-wealthy."-
"Founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, the pledge has 204 signatories including Marc Benioff, MacKenzie Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg — and it could be worth up to $600 billion by 2022, research firm Wealth-X found
[givingpledge.org]
I'm going to see myself out of the Gates conversation I brought up, and wish you well as well.
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crholmstrom
Finally got my test result after a week. Came back negative. I still need to be careful because of immune system issues but at least don't have to do full quarantine.