According to U.S. media reports on November 5, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned that terrorists will try to use the smallpox virus as a biological weapon, and the billionaire has invested billions of dollars in dealing with future epidemics.
Bill Gates issued the warning on November 4 in an interview with the Policy Exchange Think Tank, along with chair of the Health Task Force and former UK Health Minister Jeremy Hunt.
Bill Gates warned that world leaders must prepare for disasters such as "smallpox attacks" at all costs and called for the formation of a new multibillion-dollar World Health Organization pandemic task force. He believes that while the study may be expensive, he says it could also produce other innovations, such as the eradication of the flu and the common cold.
Bill Gates said countries like the U.S. and the U.K. would have to spend "tens of billions" to fund the research, "And I hope that in five years, I can write a book called We're Ready for the Next Pandemic, but it's going to take tens of billions of dollars in R&D funding — the U.S. and the U.K. will be involved." ”
Bill Gates said, "The WHO-level pandemic task force, which could require about $1 billion a year, is actually already monitoring what I call the 'bacterial game.'" ”
Gates suggested that "germ games" should include preparing for bioterrorism such as smallpox attacks on airports, a program he likened to a "war game" that trains militaries to deal with conflicts around the world. He said, "You say, what if a bioterror takes smallpox to 10 airports?" Do you know how the world will respond? "Naturally induced epidemics and epidemics caused by bioterrorism may even be worse than what we experience today."
Despite the terrible warnings billed to Him, Bill Gates also showed optimism in an interview, expecting increased funding to prevent the pandemic to lead to "very beneficial" medical innovations, saying, "The good news is that we need to do a lot of R&D work to prepare for the next pandemic, such as making cheap vaccines, having big factories, eradicating the flu, getting rid of the common cold, getting vaccines just patched for you and injected into your arms, even in our days when we don't have a pandemic. These things can also be very beneficial. ”
As part of his work as a philanthropist, he said, he will continue to talk about preparing for the next pandemic, "so in addition to climate information and the ongoing fight against the diseases of the poor, preparing for the pandemic is something I will talk about a lot." "And I think it's going to find fertile ground because, you know, we've lost trillions of dollars and millions of lives." Citizens want their governments not to allow this to happen again. ”
The White Navy commented that back in the 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates predicted a pandemic when he "said that if we weren't prepared, 30 million people could die worldwide and more than $3 trillion in economic losses." "Now it seems that either Bill Gates has amazing predictive powers, or Bill Gates already knows about this virus conspiracy.