Bill Gates’ Chilling Virus Prediction Comes True Five Years Later
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Coronavirus is quickly spreading around the globe and causing panic all over, with stored selling out of essential goods and major events being cancelled.
In light of recent events, a video has surfaced from 2015, of the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates speaking at a TedTalk following the Ebola outbreak the year before. Gates, 64, warned the world that out scientists would “not be ready for the next epidemic,” adding that they were lucky to avoid major death with Ebola. He then suggested that the next disease would be catastrophically worse.
Fast forward to today where the Coronavirus is infecting thousands and killing many at a quick rate.
“When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.,” Gates said in 2015.“That’s why we had a barrel in our basement filled with cans of food and water. 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, if anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.”
He continued to explain that governments did not spend enough time searching preventative measures and the next outbreak would be significantly worse than Ebola, even comparing it to the Spanish Flu.
“Next time, we might not be so lucky, you can have a virus where people feel well enough while they’re infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market.”
He added that we could see up to 30 million people die from the outbreak.
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