08.27.20

[Meme] Dictators and Their ‘Solutions’

Posted in Bill Gates at 7:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

5 (V) months? That’s enough!

Bill Putin: 5 months

But it takes 10-15 years to do it properly:

Vaccine development

Summary: Autocrats and profiteers of the world want us to believe they can take shortcuts and cut development time 20-fold (while the virus still mutates)

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