Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist andbusiness tycoon had cautioned the world about a pandemic in 2015. Nobody atthat time had ever thought that the human race would be facing such a threat asCovid-19 has proven to be.
"The next outbreak. We're not ready?" is theTed Talk of 2015 in which Bill Gate talked about a potential virus likeCovid-19. He asked the world to be well-equipped to face potential threats in theform of a virus.
Gates in 2015 said, "If anything kills over 10million people in the next few decades, it’s likely to be a highly infectiousvirus rather than a war." He added, it will be "microbes notmissiles."
In a chat with Derek Muller, available on a popularYouTube channel "Veritasium" said he doesn't feel good about theprophecy that he made in 2015. Gates' Ted Talk became talk of the town in Marchlast year after the new virus was discovered along with many movies related tothe contagion.
In a video callwith Muller, Bill Gates said, ""There's no good feeling that comeswith something like this: 'I told you so'," Gates says before adding,"Could I have been more persuasive?"
Muller also asked Gates how he was certain about thevirus like Covid-19, Gates responded "There are a number of respiratoryviruses and from time to time one will come along. Respiratory diseases arevery scary because you're still walking around on a plane, a bus when you'reinfectious. Unlike some other diseases like Ebola where you are mostly in ahospital bed by the time viral load infects other people."
Muller then asked what should humans prepare themselvesfor in the future. Gates first said it is climatechange. After mentioning Climate Change, he added, Every year that would bea death toll even greater than we have had in this pandemic."
Another threat that Gates mentioned was "Bio-terrorism." Bio-terrorismcan be in the form of an engineered virus that is likely to inflict a lot ofdamage. He also talked about Fake-news, Covid-19 and online misinformation onthe show of Derek Muller.