Bill Gates: ‘Sadly, It Is Appropriate’ to Close Down Bars and Restaurants for This Next COVID Wave
‘So, you know, trade-offs will have to be made’
Dec 13, 2020 3:30 PM
By Grabien Staff
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
TAPPER: “30 million of California are under brand-new stay-at-home orders as hospitals there risk being overwhelmed. There are a lot of governors who oppose bringing back these lockdown orders and forcing businesses to close. What do you think? Do you think more states need to consider taking that kind of drastic action and the kind of drastic action we saw when the pandemic first began, or can there be a more nuance approach?â€
GATES: “Well, certainly mask wearing has essentially no downside. They are not expensive. Bars and restaurants, in most of the country, will be closed as we go into this wave and I think, sadly, that is appropriate. Depending on how severe it is, the decision about schools is much more complicated because they are — the benefits are pretty high, the amount of transmission is not the same as in restaurants and bars. So, you know, tradeoffs will have to be made, but the next four to six months really call on us to do our best because we can see that this will end and you don’t want, you know, somebody you love to be the last to die of Coronavirus.â€
TAPPER: “When do you think life will fully return to what we thought of as normal back in January? No masks, no social distancing, no other protective measures necessary.â€
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