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Isn't Bill Gates basically betting on this scenario not happening?

• bertil 8y ago
  I don’t think even Bill Gates was counting on something as devastating as what is happening in Venezuela at the moment. His charity needs minimally functional countries to be able to access all children.
  • almostApatriot1 8y ago
    the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide. Secondly, Bill Gates was vaccinating only in countries where polio is endemic. His whole thing is once it's gone, it shouldn't come back.
    • makmanalp 8y ago
      > the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide. The latest UN HDI data is from 2016 - things have gone /drastically/ downhill for Venezuela since then, especially in the last 6 months.
      • rmnd551 8y ago
        You sir are completely right :(
• dingo_bat 8y ago
  Bill Gates was betting on people not getting vaccinated but still being immune?
• buvanshak 8y ago
  If that is so, Bill Gates is stupid. Because anyone with enough resources can make polio virus in a lab.. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490301/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490301/