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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
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1 posted on 09/10/2024 5:55:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Bill is missing the glory days?


2 posted on 09/10/2024 5:59:42 AM PDT by Leep (Re-elect deep state. 2024!)
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To: Red Badger

That headline makes it seem like he is rooting for a big war.


3 posted on 09/10/2024 5:59:50 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Red Badger

Natural PANDEMICS are relatively raw, however man created pandemics can be ordered as required. /s


4 posted on 09/10/2024 6:00:03 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (My opinions are the rusult of 80 years of life, you may not like them but who cares.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

The last pandemic was an act of war.


5 posted on 09/10/2024 6:01:48 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Fido969

He wants the population of Earth reduced to 500 million to one billion. One way or another..................


6 posted on 09/10/2024 6:03:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Fido969

IMO he’s rooting for anything that reduces the population of those “useless eaters” that are dirt under his fingernails (i.e. us).


7 posted on 09/10/2024 6:04:25 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Red Badger

He’s giving us a choice? How nice…..


8 posted on 09/10/2024 6:06:26 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Red Badger

He wants to kill millions. Full stop.


9 posted on 09/10/2024 6:06:43 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Red Badger

Murdering creep needs one between the eyes.


10 posted on 09/10/2024 6:09:06 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: Red Badger

He was probably touching himself inappropriately while he said it.


11 posted on 09/10/2024 6:09:09 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Red Badger

Picture him sitting in a plastic covered chair in his Disney underwear with tissue boxes on his feet.........................


12 posted on 09/10/2024 6:10:36 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Well hopefully we can have World War III so that Bill Gates can get some peaceful sleep.

I used to joke with the Good Windows Release then a Bad Windows Release that Bill Gates was the Antichrist.

Anymore I’m not certain that it was all that far off the target......


13 posted on 09/10/2024 6:11:03 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Leep

How much was he dancing with “Rona”? Maybe he misses her. There are no many that are richer than him, so what do you do when you are no longer number one?


14 posted on 09/10/2024 6:12:05 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Bill Gates is “Cocteau” from “Demolition Man”:

“I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants.”


15 posted on 09/10/2024 6:12:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaveFerris

He could be the False Prophet..................


16 posted on 09/10/2024 6:14:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I have to wonder just how secure Billy is.

A drones says , meh, he’s reachable .


17 posted on 09/10/2024 6:14:51 AM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-circuit )
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To: Red Badger

BTTT


18 posted on 09/10/2024 6:16:12 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Red Badger

The more I read about him and from him the less I think of him

To me now, he’s basically Klaus Schwab


19 posted on 09/10/2024 6:18:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger
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.

There you have it people everything bad is caused by Climate Change and if it doesn’t cause it, it makes it worse.

If, God forbid, world peace ever breaks out it will be caused by Climate Change.

/S

20 posted on 09/10/2024 6:18:28 AM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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