{"id":106070,"date":"2020-04-25T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bill-and-melinda-gates-stored-food-in-their-basement-because-they-knew-a-pandemic-was-eventually-coming"},"modified":"2020-04-25T23:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T06:02:41","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-stored-food-in-their-basement-because-they-knew-a-pandemic-was-eventually-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bill-and-melinda-gates-stored-food-in-their-basement-because-they-knew-a-pandemic-was-eventually-coming","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates stored food in their basement because they knew a pandemic was eventually coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-and-melinda-gates-stored-food-in-their-basement-because-they-knew-a-pandemic-was-eventually-coming2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of years ago, we talked about, \u2018What if there wasn\u2019t clean water? What if there wasn\u2019t enough food? Where might we go? What might we do as a family?\u2019 So, I think we should leave those preparations to ourselves,\u201d Melinda Gates told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p089n5rj\" class=\"\">BBC Radio Live<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had prepared, and had some food in the basement in case needed, and now we\u2019re all in the same situation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda said they could not prepare with a particular drug or vaccine, of course, as \u201cthere are no tools\u201d for Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA number of years ago, we talked about, \u2018What if there wasn\u2019t clean water? What if there wasn\u2019t enough food? Where might we go? What might we do as a family?\u2019 So, I think we should leave those preparations to ourselves,\u201d Melinda Gates told BBC Radio Live on Thursday. \u201cWe had prepared, and had some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}