Bill Gates in Lyon, France, during a conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria on October 9, 2019.

Bill Gates saw the coronavirus coming. Here’s his plan to beat it.

In 2015, I asked Bill Gates a simple question: What are you most afraid of?

He replied by telling me about the death chart of the 20th century. There’s the spike for World War I. The spike for World War II. But between them sat a spike as big as World War II. That, he said, was the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 65 million people. Gates’s greatest fear was a flu like that, ripping through our hyperglobalized world.

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Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to COVID-19 Lockdown

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Exposing the Big Game

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Protesters try to enter the Michigan House of Representative chamber and are being kept out by the Michigan State Police after the American Patriot Rally organized by Michigan United for Liberty protest for the reopening of businesses on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on April 30, 2020.

The right-wing movement against public health measures designed to stave off the coronavirus pandemic escalated on Thursday as armed gunmen were among those who stormed the Michigan state house and tried to enter the legislative chamber.

The protesters entered the building after holding a small rally outside the State House in Lansing, calling for an end to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order in accordance with guidance from public health experts due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission just voted to end killing contests

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Exposing the Big Game

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From WildEarth Guardians:

Today, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted 8-3 to ban killing contests targeting many of the state’s treasured wildlife including coyotes, foxes, and prairie dogs. The move falls short of a total ban on wildlife killing contests, but it is a huge step in the right direction for an agency that has long been under criticism for misguided and cruel policies toward native species, especially carnivores. Colorado joins neighbors Arizona and New Mexico, both of which curtailed wildlife killing contests in 2019.

CPW Commissioners showed leadership on this issue as Guardians staff and volunteers worked behind the scenes with other conservation and animal welfare groups to make this victory a reality. Click here if you would like to thank the commissioners or send a “thank you” tweet to @COParksWildlife.

We will continue to work throughout the West to end this brutal blood sport and…

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Nearly 900 workers at Tyson Foods plant in Indiana test positive for coronavirus

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Exposing the Big Game

By David Aaro | Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/health/nearly-900-tyson-foods-plant-indiana-test-positive-coronavirus

Tyson Foods on plan to protect workers after nearly 900 contract COVID-19

Almost 900 workers at a Tyson Foods plant in Indiana have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a report on Wednesday.

The plant, located in Logansport, Ind., has seen 890 of its 2,200 employees test positive in just under a week — which is more than 40 percent of its workforce. It’s one of several Tyson plants across the country that have voluntarily closed due to virus outbreaks.

County officials have been working with Tyson, the largest U.S. meat supplier, in developing a plan to reopen, according to Indianapolis’s WISH-TV.

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Case County Commissioner Ryan Browning said that plan has been expedited after President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday, ensuring meat processing plants would stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.

The businesses are now declared as “critical infrastructure” under the Defense Production Act.

“So there is some worry there that might force them to flip a switch and go but we are continuing with our plan,” Browning told the station.

A Tyson Fresh Meats plant employee leaves the plant, April 23, in Logansport, Ind. The plant will temporarily close its meatpacking plant in north-central Indiana after several employees tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Pork processing offers workers little personal space, who typically work in a close-quarter environment, WISH-TV reported. The virus is known to spread from person-to-person within six-feet, through respiratory droplets in the air, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

EMERGENCY DECLARED IN INDIANA COUNTY AMID CORONAVIRUS CASE SURGE

Tyson released a statement regarding the safety of its employees.

“We’ve been screening worker temperatures, requiring protective face coverings and conducting additional cleaning and sanitizing. We’ve also implemented social distancing measures, such as workstation dividers and more breakroom space,” it said, according to the station.

Health officials reported 1,283 coronavirus cases in the county as of Tuesday. The peak number of cases is expected to hit in the next two weeks.

Indiana has seen more than 17,835 coronavirus cases and at least 1,114 deaths from the virus, as of early Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins.

COVID-19 Meat Shortages Could Last for Months. Here’s What to Know Before Your Next Grocery Shopping Trip

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Exposing the Big Game

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Wearing a mask, an employee stocks the meat section at Greenland Market on April 23, 2020 in Dearborn Heights, Michigan.

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BY TARA LAW

https://time.com/5830178/meat-shortages-coronavirus/

APRIL 30, 2020 3:58 PM EDT

This was supposed to be a big year for America’s meat industry. As recently as late February, a USDA livestock analyst predicted record-setting red meat and poultry production as economic growth and low unemployment boosted demand for animal protein.

Then came COVID-19. By the end of April, the pandemic changed the economic and agricultural landscape so drastically that Tyson Foods, one of America’s biggest meat producers, warned in a full-page New York Times ad that the “food supply chain is breaking.”

America’s farms are still packed with animals raised for meat production. The problem is that the virus has made it increasingly hard to turn those animals into store-ready packs of pork chops or…

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It’s Everywhere Now — COVID-19 A Global Viral Wildfire

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Exposing the Big Game

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It moved like a fire.

First flickering in China during December.

There it evaded detection early-on. The Chinese government demurring to provide reports on the virus for crucial days. Then it grew and grew. Expanding to the point that it raged to terrifying size in China during January and February. Evoking a sudden, serious and locally effective lock-down even as the Chinese government coordinated with world health bodies on what had now become a large and deadly-serious threat to both national and global security.

COVID-19 Leaps China’s Fire Break

China and world health bodies built up a kind of infectious disease fire break meant to contain the new virus. By the end of February, China’s own initial case numbers had rocketed to just below 80,000. The largest novel infectious disease outbreak of its kind in at least three decades. But the viral fire wasn’t finished. In fact, it…

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Armed Gunmen Enter Michigan Capitol Demanding End to COVID-19 Lockdown

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Nearly 900 workers at Tyson Foods plant in Indiana test positive for coronavirus

COVID-19 Meat Shortages Could Last for Months. Here’s What to Know Before Your Next Grocery Shopping Trip

It’s Everywhere Now — COVID-19 A Global Viral Wildfire