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It talks about the current moment when Bill Gates looks like an outsider. (It looks like an accent, but still.) Gates, who is 70 years old, has more than $ 10 billion and is one of the most wealthy people on the earth. He lives in fashion that brings tears to any Sultan or the king’s eyes. Microsoft, a former company’s company, was considered not only innovation but also an avatar that violated anti -trade. For his critic at the time, he was a ruthless corporate action. Glasses, knitwear, and suppressed personality were not fooled. Nevertheless, he is now away from other high -tech Titan generations, who are now throwing a lot with Maga and Donald Trump, with no Jeff Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Maga and Donald Trump.
The gate seems to be almost modest in comparison for all his wealth. (Again, it looks like an accent.) He doesn’t occupy office space on the white house premises or wear a large chain or new hairstyle. The muscles that can be accepted from his Shaetland sweater will not expand. Almost every time, many of the capital he created, especially charitable, especially public health. But, as he acknowledged, his reputation has recently been lost due to a divorce with his wife, Minda French Gates, and some of the bad behaviors that have led to it.
Gates has published his remnant, “Source code: My Beginning”, in an attempt to create a flattering contrast with a reflective mode and perhaps his young Trump rivals. I did more to create a personal computing era than anyone. Recently, I talked to Gates for New Yorker’s radio hour. He was sometimes cautious about the young cohort of politics and the millionaires of the millionaires, but his opposition was completely hidden. Our conversation is edited for length and clarity.
At one point, it was revealed that it donated tens of millions of dollars to the effort to select Camara Harris. Donald Trump has won many colleagues in the world of technology, Eron Mask, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos. You are smiling, what are the emerging photos here?
Now, President Trump has been elected, and he intends to make many policy decisions, and I will say that the range of possibilities in many fields was not so wide. I searched for President Trump, but immediately after Christmas, I got off to Marua Lago and had a very long, very long dinner with him. and-
What did you talk about?
Well, we talked about the world, but my first request was about HIV. There is a question about whether the United States has maintained a Peppa Program, which has existed for more than 20 years, and has survived more than 10 million people with HIV drugs. I think why we should maintain it, and eventually we can innovate to cure HIV and its necessity, but when we think that it will take some time, he encourages him to look at him. He explained. D operation warp speed is completed.
You are talking about COVID-19 vaccine.
right. Then, check if they can apply to this Hiv-Cure work.
And how did he respond?
He was very enthusiastic about it. I talked a lot about polio. Since he has never excluded polio with Pakistan and Afghanistan, he talked about how to prioritize the government like Pakistan. As an important partner, my Foundation has a US government for research and implementation in health, and I do my best to cooperate with this government. I got his ears for 3 hours. He would not have been better. It doesn’t mean that other people come in and say that HIV’s money should be reduced, but I did my best.
Are you worried that being on the democratic side in the previous election would be punished in some way? History has shown that it does not exceed Donald Trump to support his allies and punish him as his enemy.
No, you can definitely worry that there was a wide attack on the foundation. There was a wide range of attacks on the vaccine.
Now, let’s take it. What are your biggest concerns about the vaccine at the world level when you have the administration you have now, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I think people are still coming to their own sense. The main reasons we have less than 5 million today have died of 10 million children every year at the turn of the century, because we have a very cheap vaccine for most children in the world. Because I got it. 5 million deaths a year -it is a big thing, and in fact, if we stayed seriously about the global health, we were able to reduce those deaths by half.
But do you see any impulses at one of the three -hour dinner with the president or the contact with the return administration?
Well, I told him that he did a very good job at warp speed. And we talked about why the pandemic was separated from people and the fact that today’s pandemic was not ready. At least for a while, we would have thought we would be serious about it. 。 。 。 So I’m a little surprised. However, I am thinking about the entire vaccine because millions of lives are involved. People may remember this is a miraculous invention.
There are more stories about US OLI head structures than before. Is OLI head growing in Washington?
I can’t be related to the term. In fact, I think more from the viewpoint of Russia. And strange things-
Why is it?
Money is not the key to this election. The party that spent thought it was widely accepted -a party with less money won the election.
I am talking about something else. I talk about the effects of people like the Jon Musk. I talk about how Mark Zuckerberg has recently served. I talk about the impact on Baron Media. Are you worried about you?
The balance between following the new theme selected by voters and sticking to permanent principles. (Laughs) I think we can see this action and say it’s okay. And maybe they went too much? Trump has made many important decisions, and the belief that the Gates Foundation is trying to help them make their decisions are good, I have to stick. We do not intend to disagree. We continue partnerships with all administration.
The development of the vaccine is a huge focus of the Foundation’s work, and as a result, you have been subject to a conspiracy theory, especially around COVID. One of the most surprising things in these conspiracy theories was to use COVID-19 vaccines to implant people’s microchips. Where does this come from? How do you explain your vaccine skepticism? And where are you responsible for how these theory and attack come to you and how others believe in the vaccine?
