His predictions were eerily on point. 🤓 Engineering
where he underlined how the next big disaster to strike humanity would be due to microbes, and not a nuclear war. "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus," he explained. Moreover, Gates stated that once this viral disaster hit, we'd be massively underprepared for it.
Unfortunately for us, he was right. More than a year later, we're still battling Covid-19 to varying degrees of success around the globe. We were indeed massively underprepared. Gates pointed out that globally we've invested a lot of resources in warfare planning and prevention. In fact,reached a staggering $1.83 trillion in 2020. However, pre-Covid, we invested very little in preparing for a global epidemic.
The world's nations don't exactly have teams of epidemiologists ready to hit the ground running to save the Earth's population, as Gates pointed out. Comparing this to the world's armies that are ready to deploy at any given moment in case of war against other humans, we in fact have very little support.
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