Recently I came across a video on YouTube that actually bamboozled me. Amidst these times of the Novel Coronavirus outbreak around the globe, this video shows the Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates giving a TED Talk about the “next outbreak” and telling us how we are “not ready for the next pandemic”.
The former Chief of Microsoft started the speech by saying that in his childhood, people feared a nuclear war. However, times changed and 5 years ago, the man said, “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes!”.
The former Microsoft CEO also compared the real-world situation with the popular Hollywood movie, Contagion, which is one of the top pandemic movies of all time. However, he said that the real world is much different from Hollywood and it does not always have “handsome epidemiologists” to save the day.
