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Coronavirus: Bill Gates as prophet predicted pandemic in 2015

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30/03/2020
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Bill Gates as prophet predicted pandemic in 2015 and noticed that If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic. When he was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down and eat out of that barrel. Today the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn’t look like this. Instead, it looks like this….

The next outbreak? We’re not ready.
Bill Gates TED talks – 2015

In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers – plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says, “There’s no need to panic … but we need to get going.”

He compares the Ebola case to the next epidemic threat. He highlights the failure to prepare that could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than the progression of Ebola over that year (2015).

He notices three reasons why it didn’t spread more:

  1. The first is that there was a lot of heroic work by the health workers. They found the people and they prevented more infections.
  2. The second is the nature of the virus. Ebola does not spread through the air.
  3. Third, it didn’t get into many urban areas. And that was just luck.

The World Bank estimates that if we have a worldwide flu epidemic, global wealth will go down by over three trillion dollars and we would have millions and millions of deaths.

Bill Gates TED talks – 2015

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Bill Gates 2018 prediction 

The world needs to prepare for pandemics just like war.

Speaking at an event hosted by Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on April 27, 2018, Gates said he believed “the world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.”

“This preparation includes staging simulations, war games and preparedness exercises so that we can better understand how diseases will spread and how to deal with responses such as quarantine and communications to minimize panic,” Gates said. He compared future deadly global pandemics to a new type of “military weapon.”

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To be better prepared, Gates said world leaders need to invest in approaches such as antiviral drugs and antibody therapies that can be stockpiled or rapidly manufactured to the spread of these future diseases.

Bill Gates 2020 prediction

Bill Gates: State-by-state shutdown won’t work

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder Bill Gates says that the US should shutdown the entire country for a short period of time to control the spread of the coronavirus and predicts that the number of cases will peak in late April.

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