BILL GATES: THE WORLD HASN'T READY FOR THE PANDEMIC

A video that's been viewed by tens of millions of people these days on social media, and it is certainly worth watching. It's an old video: 5 years ago, Bill Gates warned that a pandemic would be extremely dangerous, and the world was not prepared to respond.

In a 2015 speech, Bill Gates, almost prophetically, said that the disaster that threatened the world was not an atomic bomb, but a virus, capable of extremely strong spread. What's more dangerous, it will be a virus that explodes in crowded cities, and the infected person can feel healthy to travel, travel, and spread the virus around the world.

TENS OF MILLION VICTIMS

In a conversation of no more than 8 minutes, in order to learn from the experience of the Ebola epidemic, which had previously killed 11,000 people in Africa, in which he contributed a significant amount of money to prevent it, Gates took the initiative. Guess the appearance and shape of Covid-19

'' When I was a child, the disaster most feared was the atomic war. But today, the biggest disaster is not this (Bill Gates shows an atomic bomb), but this (magnifying a virus). If anything kills 10 million people in the coming decades, that could be an extremely dangerous virus, rather than an atomic bomb, '' because `` we have invested huge sums of money. huge focus on preventing nuclear war, but very little into the pandemic prevention system. We are not ready to confront an upcoming pandemic ‘'

The world is not prepared against disaster? Gates went further:

'' Look at Ebola: the problem is not that our prevention system is not working. The problem is that there is no system at all. ''

The founder of Microsoft continued, as described Covid will come 5 years later:

'' The upcoming pandemic will probably be even more tragic. Maybe there will be a virus with infected people who feel healthy to climb on planes, go to the market .. ''

THE WORLD HAS A SOLUTION, WITH CONDITIONS ..

After the warning, Gates ended with an optimism: before the great disaster, the world today has a solution, if it is prepared:

'' We have cell phones to receive and spread the news. We have satellite maps to see where people are, which direction to move. We have biological advances that make us have a different view of vectors, helping us to discover adaptive drugs and vaccines. ''

Bill Gates emphasized: "We have the tools, but the devices must be used in a global system", and add: collaboration between medical and military personnel is also important. important, because the military has a lot of facilities and personnel.

Video:

https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=dz-