Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bill Gates on the No. 1 thing that keeps him up at night: ‘If we avoid a big war...there will be another pandemic’
CNBC ^ | September 09, 2024 | Tom Huddleston Jr.

Posted on 09/10/2024 5:55:43 AM PDT by Red Badger

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has spent the past couple decades warning the general public about ominous issues, from upcoming “climate disasters” to devastating cyberattacks.

Two potential catastrophes evoke the most concern from Gates. “A lot of unrest” in today’s world could spark “a major war,” he tells CNBC Make It. And even “if we avoid a big war ... then, yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next 25 years.”

Scientists typically view pandemics as likely, even inevitable, occurrences over time. They are indeed becoming more common, due to factors like climate change and population growth, research shows.

For Gates and other global health advocates, the question isn’t whether another pandemic will occur soon — it’s whether nations will be more prepared than they were for the outbreak of Covid-19. “The country that the world expected to lead and be the model fell short of those expectations,” Gates says, referring to the United States.

Gates wrote a book called “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic” in 2022, in which he called out various governments, including the U.S., for not being adequately prepared in 2020. In the book, he laid out several recommendations for countries worldwide, including stronger quarantining policies, investing in disease monitoring and boosting vaccine research and development.

While some progress has been made, with increased spending on pandemic preparedness in the U.S. and elsewhere, Gates says the global response hasn’t yet been enough. “Although some of the lessons from [the coronavirus] pandemic have been learned, [it’s been] way less than I would expect, sadly,” he says.

The political divisions many believe hampered the world’s response to Covid-19 are still standing in the way of preparing appropriately for the next outbreak, Gates adds: “Getting our thoughts together about what [we did] well, what we didn’t do well, is still not happening .... Perhaps, in the next five years, that’ll get better. But, so far, it’s quite surprising.”

Preventing widespread disease is the focus of an episode in the upcoming Netflix docuseries “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates,” set to premiere September 18.

In an advance screening of the Netflix series provided to Make It, Gates sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In that conversation, Fauci is adamant that the wealthiest nations, like the U.S., have a “moral responsibility” to share their abundant resources to lead the way on preventing the spread of disease around the world.

Fauci published a memoir this summer called “On Call,” in which he expressed his concerns over how the world is facing a “crisis of truth” over rampant misinformation, such as the kind that shook the public’s faith in public health initiatives.

The scientist struck a more optimistic tone in a July interview with People, in which he said he believes that public trust of scientific facts will eventually be restored.

“I still feel as somewhat of a cautious optimist that there are the better angels in everybody that will come out,” Fauci said.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestbillgates; billgates; biologicalwarfare; enemieslist; enemyofhumanity; publicenemy; warcriminal
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
To: Fido969

I wonder if the megalomaniacs like Gate, Soros and Schwab were removed if the threat of war and pandemic drop to almost zero.


41 posted on 09/10/2024 6:46:46 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: unread

Death by fire or death by pestilence..................You choose............


42 posted on 09/10/2024 6:47:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Only an elitist, Godless, commi could worry about population control.


43 posted on 09/10/2024 6:49:45 AM PDT by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Sez the world recordholder for creating virus superspreading conditions. /rimshot!

44 posted on 09/10/2024 6:53:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: All
I am glad he is not worried about the Chicoms killing another 28 million people.

There is now very little doubt that Covid leaked from a lab
45 posted on 09/10/2024 6:57:29 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

The individual who discontinues Bill Gates will be a world hero.


46 posted on 09/10/2024 7:00:54 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PGalt

Only the good die young......................


47 posted on 09/10/2024 7:01:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

And a lot of good, innocent individuals have died from the machinations of the evil POS Gates.


48 posted on 09/10/2024 7:04:56 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Take a Melatonin and stop trying to run the world.


49 posted on 09/10/2024 7:10:48 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (This world is driven by envy, not greed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Why not both? Read between the lines. He’s admitting wars and pandemics are contrived by our “betters”.


50 posted on 09/10/2024 7:16:23 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

Bill WHO?


51 posted on 09/10/2024 7:21:03 AM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger
He'll make sure we'll get one or the other, maybe both.

52 posted on 09/10/2024 7:25:50 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

He’ll see to it that there will be.


53 posted on 09/10/2024 7:32:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

I take comfort in the fact bill gates will be judged just as he has judged us


54 posted on 09/10/2024 7:37:18 AM PDT by Tc lear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

It would be nice if he went to bed one night and didn’t wake up.


55 posted on 09/10/2024 7:40:56 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fido969

Pretty sure Bill Gates of Hell is most definitely hoping for a war. And for disease and pestilence, and anything else that will send our world into chaos.


56 posted on 09/10/2024 7:44:02 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: RatRipper

Too quick....


57 posted on 09/10/2024 7:45:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: RatRipper

I want to see him tried for crimes against humanity and sentenced to hanging.


58 posted on 09/10/2024 7:45:53 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 1malumprohibitum

They’re super-state actors. They are so rich and influential that ‘states’ no longer apply to them. They lecture and influence states to comply with their wishes and desires.

Sounds kinda familiar to the biblically inclined.


59 posted on 09/10/2024 8:30:15 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Fido969

Re rooting for a big war:

Sure as hell sounds like it to me too…


60 posted on 09/10/2024 9:59:07 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson