Bill Gates was right in warning of a dangerous virus.
In his opinion, humanity should learn from the lessons of the current corona pandemic.
The fact that
Bill Gates was
correct in
his
prognosis
for a raging worldwide
pandemic
has already been reported in the media several times.
Years ago, the
multi-billionaire
warned of the world's deadliest animal *.
"If something kills 10 million people in the next few decades, it is not a war, but a highly contagious virus," said the American entrepreneur five years ago.
For a year now, the world has actually been confronted with a
global
pandemic
and its effects
caused
by such a
virus
.
Despite or precisely because he made such predictions long before the outbreak of
Covid-19
, Bill Gates is also repeatedly the target of conspiracy theories *.
Bill Gates as part of conspiracy theories
+
Bill Gates warned of a global pandemic years ago.
© Gian Ehrenzeller
A particularly popular conspiracy theory even assumes that Bill Gates *
wants
to use the
corona vaccine
to usurp world domination.
Precisely because the Microsoft founder
has been aware of
the great danger posed by
viruses
and the scope of a possible
pandemic
for many years, he invested a lot of money in research.
However, some
conspiracy theorists
interpret this in such a way that he only wants to enrich himself with the active ingredients developed or - worse still - have
even bred
the
coronavirus
himself in one of the laboratories
The
multi-billionaire was
really only interested in prevention: "Even for this
pandemic it
would have made a big difference if you had prepared a little more," explains
Bill Gates
in a recent interview with the
Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)
.
"A better diagnostic capability would have brought us to the infected faster and drastically reduced the number of deaths."
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested billions in vaccination campaigns
The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
,
founded by him and his wife,
fights against
diseases
around the world
using billions of dollars
and has supported numerous
vaccination programs
for years
- especially in third world countries.
And
so far, around 1.44 billion euros have also been invested
in the development and production of a vaccine against the
coronavirus
.
"The money that the Gates Foundation has invested in gigantic vaccine factories in India to reserve capacities and thus support developing countries in supplying them," said
Bill Gates
to the
SZ
also helped with the implementation
.
"It's a miracle: if the
pandemic
had broken out five years ago, the world would not have had a
vaccine
after this short time
."
Warning: "We are not prepared for the next pandemic"
Without the large and forward-looking investments made by
Bill Gates
and his wife's
foundation
, the fight against the
coronavirus might
last much longer than it already will.
In
the
SZ
interview, the
Microsoft founder
advises
to learn from the current lessons: "We are
not prepared
for the next
pandemic
." This is already bad, "but a future one could be ten times as bad".
* bw24.de and tz.de are part of the Germany-wide Ippen editorial network
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