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I think this one is overblown. If Gates wanted to learn about viruses all the worlds bleeding edge experts are in his reach. I would be charitable and assume he took advantage of that. If so he can be a lot more educated about the subject than any doctor.

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Jeffrey Epstein really enjoyed the fact that wealth implies general intelligence and insight to a lot of people. Also the fact that if a rich guy wears a Harvard sweatshirt, a lot of people will insist he must have gone to Harvard without ever being asked to.

"Well he's dead so....." that is the most epic/telling statement I believe Bill Gates has every made.

Gates comments on Epstein on NPR, I don't have a link, but Google and YouTube have the details.

Gates another question for you, what's with all the farmland you now own in the US? The world doesn't need another Monsanto's. Seems fishy! Somethings afoot with that. Farming is not that profitable, so what's his interest in it?

Agreed. I don't think this a cosplay, especially within the context of all the work his foundation has done to save lives around the world from a pragmatic numbers based approach.

That's a possibility, I hope it's not more a marketing stunt than a real effort (I assume he cares since he talked about that long ago).

Also, him being a used high profile spokesperson, is used to be under the light, maybe not all epidemiologists want that or can handle the fuss. Maybe he can bridge the two and have international panels with experts being set up.

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