Melinda Gates says White House response to COVID-19 is 'costing lives'

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May 11, 2020 84 Comments

Melinda Gates is not mincing words regarding the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic -- which as of Monday has killed more than 80,000 Americans.

“We are lacking leadership at the federal level in the United States, and it's highly distressing and disappointing,” the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told Yahoo Finance in a recent interview. “To have to have 50 state-grown solutions is inefficient. It makes no sense. And it's costing people their lives.”

She also told Yahoo Finance that she's not pleased with America's lack of a national testing system for coronavirus. “If we had a good testing and tracing system like Germany has, we would have started to reopen slowly more places in the economy,” she explained. “People wouldn't be struggling so much to put a meal on their table. The lack of action is really causing harm and hurt unnecessarily in this country. And I'm incredibly disappointed to see that.”

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  • Why should I care about she thinks?
    May 11, 2020 6
    • Yelp
      leetcode24

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      Lol! @cccp2 it's easy to make such a statement but just shows how informed you are. Go look her up and see what's she's done in her career and stop making her look like one of the Kardashians.
      May 15, 2020
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      Just looked her up. To be fair the Kardashians seem more accomplished. I didn't like their show but at least they did something on their own
      May 15, 2020
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    Says Melinda with the unethical testing of vaccines in Africa and India.
    Those two are vile
    May 11, 2020 8
    • My goodness, PayPal you are a breath of fresh air. It feels like tech is only populated by mindless robots, then every now and then someone shows that they are indeed human and fully aware. Thank you
      May 19, 2020
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      Wow. PayPal is seriously stupid. I mean really? The increased net worth is caused by donations?? Man, how do you get out of the house and not trip up on your own stupidity?
      May 19, 2020

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  • It's obvious to anyone with half a brain. Boris johnson comes a close second
    May 11, 2020 3
  • Honey / Eng
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    Let's all listen to the wife of the guy who wants to essentially microchip us all and track all our interactions with people.

    "Contract tracing" is just a nice way to say surveillance. We're literally going to end up with another Patriot act and an equivalent TSA for this.
    May 12, 2020 6
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      Doesn't honey track all our browsing and shopping habits 😂
      May 19, 2020
    • Honey / Eng
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      All the data we capture is generally part of the coupon product. We also don't sell or share it.

      You're one to talk Yelp, how did that compulsory covid-19 relief funding work out for you.
      May 20, 2020