Bill Gates put a date on the next pandemic and says it will be ten worse than the coronavirus

“This pandemic is bad, but a future pandemic could be 10 times worse,” Bill Gates said in an interview and once again sounded the alarm on a dark future for humanity.

Microsoft’s founder has long warned of future pandemics, in fact warned of COVID-19 before the first cases were recorded in Wuhan, China.

The authorities of the main world powers are working on scenarios of new pandemics in the years to come. And this is a hypothesis that Bill Gates supports, it is only now that he points out that it could be ten times more deadly than the coronavirus.

Bill Gates gave his prognosis in an interview with the German newspaper South German newspaper. There, he reflected on the lessons the world is learning from the current health crisis and stressed that if society does not take precautions, it could face much more serious prospects in the future.

He also assured, as he did in April last year in an interview with the Financial Times, that a similar epidemic could occur in 20 years or less.

“We don’t know when the next one will come, whether it will be flu, coronavirus or some new disease that we have never seen before. But what we do know is that we can’t afford to be caught off guard again. . The threat of the next pandemic will always be there. Overhead, unless the world takes action to prevent it. “

In your opinion pandemics are now part of a new normal, “as the earth trembles, tornadoes come or the weather changes. For this reason, protecting citizens against possible new diseases must become an essential task of governments, ”said Gates.

And he added that “we are not prepared for the next pandemic. I hope the situation will be different in a few years. Vaccines, tests, drugs, epidemiology, monitoring: there is a lot to do.”

In the interview with German media, Gates also explained that scientific advances in the development of vaccines against the new disease are auspicious. “It’s a miracle: if the pandemic had broken out five years ago, the world would not have had a vaccine after that short period.”

In this context, the American tycoon warned against vaccination nationalism and called on heads of state and government to distribute the drug fairly. “No country can be alone in the fight against the pandemic.”

Another warning from Bill Gates

A few weeks ago, the businessman launched a global alert. He ensures that everyone is focusing their efforts on reducing coronavirus infections, but they forget to attack “the deadliest animal in the world”: the mosquito.

The creator of Microsoft said on his blog, Gates Notes, that the species that threatens humanity “does not practice social distancing. They also do not wear masks. As Covid-19 spreads across the world, it’s important to remember that the world’s deadliest animal hasn’t taken a break during this pandemic. “

As the businessman explains, it must be made visible that malaria kills a child every two minutes every day and most of these deaths occur in countries with the highest poverty rates.

In addition, he assured that it was vital to deal with malaria, because during the Ebola epidemic in 2014 in West Africa, diseases such as malaria, HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis have gained more strength. “Now this incredible progress can be threatened.”