Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci joined Rashida Jones to talk about the world post-COVD; Gates mentions that "we have to assume that [the next pandemic] could be three years from now"
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Bill Gates had his first Ask Big Questions podcast with Rashida Jones today. This episode focussed on the world after COVID-19. Here are my notes. Links to archived images and full transcript at bottom of post.
The production team is also listed in part S) of my notes; feel free to do a digg on them.
For easy readability, I've pasted the entire post in PasteBin: https://pastebin.com/qEFL28XZ (click "Ok, show me the paste" when you get the warning)
HIGHLIGHTS (Specific section of notes mentioned in parenthesis):
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Gates indicates that the Gates Foundation does a lot of their work with Bono (Part A)
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Fauci indicates that there is an inexistent flu season in Australia; praises this is due to COVID measures (Part C)
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Fauci mentions his job is also PR and plans to engage society with influencers to tell people to get the COVID vaccine which will be in two doses; special engagement will be done for minority populations (Parts D, E, F)
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Fauci mentions different vaccines will be used on different age groups; but only time will tell (inherently signally his wife's work on bioethics on human experimentation) (Parts I)
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Fauci confirms he touches base with Gates every few weeks (Part K)
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Gates mentions that COVID isolation was proposed because they did not know who the superspreaders were (Part N)
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Gates mentions of upcoming pandemic. Quote: "Hopefully, with luck, it could be 20 years from now." "But we have to assume that it could be three years from now." (Part R)
FULL NOTES:
Note: Each section of the notes below corresponds to the section of the transcript that is screencapped in the images.
A)
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Gates plans to hug singer Bono (Paul David Hewson) once things get "back to normal". Gates indicates that a lot of the Foundation does work with Bono.
B)
Post-COVID world as per Gates:
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People will go to the office less
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Floorspace within the office will be shared between multiple companies; each company will occupy the floor on different days of the week
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Downtown will look different (i.e. be inexistent)
C)
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Fauci indicates everyone six months of age or older should get a flu shot this year
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Gates indicates that even if this is a very low flu season, there must be high compliance of the flu shot
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Fauci correlates public health measures (masking, washing hands, social distancing, etc.) as the reason why Australia has had an almost inexistent flu season. He further indicates that the same measures used to prevent COVID also help prevent the flu. → Therefore COVID is akin the flu