Bill Gates was characterized as an out of touch billionaire for saying it is “appropriate” that restaurants and bars close for months as he warned that another wave of coronavirus infections will hit the United States.
“.@BillGates is worth over $118 billion dollars. He does not care about small businesses like bars, restaurants, and gyms. Over 99% of people under age 60 (the healthy working class & kids in school) SURVIVE covid. This is insanity that will devastate people’s lives,” Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted Sunday.
.@BillGates is worth over $118 billion dollars.
He does not care about small businesses like bars, restaurants, and gyms.
Over 99% of people under age 60 (the healthy working class & kids in school) SURVIVE covid.
This is insanity that will devastate people’s lives.#Resist https://t.co/cpC5Z6FBrI
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) December 14, 2020
Others joined Taylor Greene in her condemnation of his comments.
They both have large paychecks. https://t.co/jmkqkxClrp
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 13, 2020
Bill Gates has endorsed keeping bars and restaurants shutdown for the next four to six months.
This is insanity. Those business will never come back if they’re closed for six more months. pic.twitter.com/QdNVP18tcr
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) December 13, 2020
Bill Gates says bars and restaurants should stay closed for the next 4 to 6 months, and life won’t return to normal before 2022. Nobody elected Bill Gates to anything. He can stick his ideas where the Sun doesn’t shine. https://t.co/VYbzfoJsC2
— David Kurten (@davidkurten) December 14, 2020
Bill Gates says it’s “appropriate” for bars and restaurants remain closed for FOUR TO SIX MONTHS –– and argues even through 2022 life should not return to normal.
These “lockdowns” will not end until the people make them.pic.twitter.com/KmDB5tZ8PS
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) December 14, 2020
The pushback comes after Gates joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday and lamented that the pandemic could worsen like never before, saying bars and restaurants will need to close.
“Sadly, the next four to six months could be the worst of the epidemic. The IHME forecast shows over 200,000 additional deaths. If we would follow the rules, in terms of wearing masks and not mixing, we could avoid a large percentage of those deaths,” Gates told Tapper.
“Bars and restaurants, in most of the country, will be closed as we go into this wave, and I think, sadly, that’s appropriate,” he added in the interview.
Gates has been involved with the pandemic, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donating $1.75 billion to vaccine development and distribution.
