mo4ch:>‘I feel terrible’: Bill Gates says he warned Trump of pandemic threat in 2016, regrets not doing more | Mo4ch News
Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates said he tried to warn President-elect Donald Trump of the dangers of a major viral outbreak soon after the 2016 race, but noted he feels guilty for not being even more vocal.“I chose, when I met with people all the way up to the top, in Europe, in the US, around the world, to talk about this pandemic risk,” he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Monday, explaining that he even made the case to the US president during a December 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.I feel terrible. The whole point of talking about it was that we could take action and minimize the damage. … I wish I had done more to call attention to the danger.Gates says that while many world leaders agreed with his advice in principle, few took any action to prepare, prompting him to begin looking for potential solutions on his own.“Whenever I asked about respiratory viruses, like how important are schools and if you do shutdowns, how much can you drop th…