Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another pandemic in less than 30 years

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Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another pandemic in less than 30 years​

Eleanor Pringle
Updated Wed, 11 September 2024 at 10:14 pm SGT3-min read

There are some questions that keep even billionaire philanthropist and entrepreneur Bill Gates up at night. Will there be another pandemic? Are global tensions going to reach a boiling point, sparking a global war? What would push us to that precipice?

While Gates, a father of three, is determinedly optimistic about the likes of AI and eradicating deadly diseases like polio, he remains concerned about either a widespread war or another pandemic.

He cited "a lot of unrest" in the world at the moment, which could spark "a major war.

 

[k1976]

But even if that conflict is avoided, "then yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next 25 years,” Gates told CNBC Make It.

The Microsoft cofounder was unimpressed with the global response to the pandemic and said crucial lessons have been ignored.

He was critical of America's response to the crisis, saying: “The country that the world expected to lead and be the model fell short of those expectations.

"Although some of the lessons from [the coronavirus] pandemic have been learned, [it’s been] way less than I would expect, sadly,” the 69-year-old added.

Gates isn't alone in his disappointment; many other global health advocates are also pushing the Western world for better responses to emerging outbreaks.

 

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Professor Paul Hunter is an expert in the epidemiology of emerging diseases based out of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

Speaking to Fortune last month about a deadly new strain of mpox, Professor Hunter said: “In the West we only really get interested in a disease when it starts directly threatening us. The problem is that so many of these diseases could have been prevented from spreading if the countries on the ground had had the resources."

This is a recurring theme, one which was apparent during COVID, he added: "The West only gets concerned about controlling epidemics when we start seeing cases, and then it is almost always too late to eradicate the infection.”

Gates echoed that he hopes health bodies will begin thinking more long-term in the coming years, adding: “Getting our thoughts together about what [we did] well, what we didn’t do well, is still not happening… Perhaps, in the next five years, that’ll get better.

 

[k1976]

World war fears​

Gates—who is worth $157 billion per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index—isn't the only influential name warning about a potential global conflict.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has previously said geopolitical tensions are the biggest threat facing the global economy, telling CNBC affiliate network CNBC TV-18 last September: “We have dealt with inflation before, we dealt with deficits before, we have dealt with recessions before, and we haven’t really seen something like this pretty much since World War II,” he told the Indian news channel.

“I think America takes [Russia’s invasion of Ukraine] very seriously, I’m not quite sure how the rest of the world does. You have a European democratic nation invaded under the threat of nuclear blackmail. I think it’s been a good response, but it’s going to affect all of our relationships until somehow the war is resolved.

 

[k1976]

Chinese ambassador Xie Feng lays down ‘red lines’ in US-China relationship​

Interspersed with language hailing the 45th anniversary of normalised relations between the nations was a warning: Don’t mess with China​

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Bookended by hopeful words of mutual understanding and improved relations, China’s top diplomat in the US delivered a tough message on Thursday in New York: Do not mess with China and do not seek regime change.

The presentation by Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to the United States, celebrated the 45th anniversary of normalised relations, people-to-people ties, explosive bilateral trade growth and past examples of cooperation. But interspersed with the feel-good outreach was his strongly delivered main message.

 

[syed putra]

Bill gates turning into Nostradamus?

 

[k1976]

China's banks have a nasty case of indigestion​

By Robyn Mak
September 11, 20247:00 PM GMT+8Updated a day ago



CommentaryBy Robyn Mak

A man walks past the Bank of China logo at its booth at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China September 2, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo - RC2303A7JBMJ Purchase Licensing Rights

HONG KONG, Sept 11 (Reuters Breakingviews) - China's financial sector has serious heartburn. For decades, Beijing has leaned on its state-controlled banks to turbo-charge growth by extending credit. But lenders are now clogged with risky assets. The result is something like indigestion: not critical, but painful for the $17 trillion economy.

On paper, the country's banks look remarkably healthy given 2020's twin shocks of the pandemic and a burst property bubble. Official data, opens new tab show them sitting on 3.3 trillion yuan, roughly $460 billion, of non-performing loans. Add in another $670 billion of less-problematic-but-still-pesky "special mention" loans, which include credit extended to struggling property developers and cash-strapped local governments, and it doesn’t even reach 4% of their aggregate lending.

 

[k1976]

Bill gates turning into Nostradamus?

He is the World Biggest Good Hands....fix ALL Human Problem at God Speed

 

[k1976]

One of the Real Demi Gods roaming on Earth right now

 

[k1976]

A Reset to Truthspeak can sell his Flat Earth Theory to all..Good Job

 

[laksaboy]

Bill Gates is going to hell, and all you 95% Sinkie vaxtards will join him,

Enjoy your last fleeting moments on the planet.

 

[jw5]

He should do something about it, instead of just babbling.

 

[Sustanon]

Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another pandemic in less than 30 years​

Eleanor Pringle
Updated Wed, 11 September 2024 at 10:14 pm SGT3-min read

There are some questions that keep even billionaire philanthropist and entrepreneur Bill Gates up at night. Will there be another pandemic? Are global tensions going to reach a boiling point, sparking a global war? What would push us to that precipice?

While Gates, a father of three, is determinedly optimistic about the likes of AI and eradicating deadly diseases like polio, he remains concerned about either a widespread war or another pandemic.

He cited "a lot of unrest" in the world at the moment, which could spark "a major war.

It's easy to predict when one has the power to manufacture a major war or a plandemic. KNN this asshole is evil beyond any words can describe it. No wonder wife also run away, his ex good buddy Warren Buffet also buay song with him, dotter kena piak by nigger lol.....

 

[k1976]

It's easy to predict when one has the power to manufacture a major war or a plandemic. KNN this asshole is evil beyond any words can describe it. No wonder wife also run away, his ex good buddy Warren Buffet also buay song with him, dotter kena piak by nigger lol.....

He 为国为民and Good Hands to All Mankind

 

[k1976]

Bill gates turning into Nostradamus?

Morr need to up lorry mah

 

[laksaboy]

Unfortunately, the PAP technocrats adore Bill Gates. Birds of a feather flock together.




Project Wolbachia was the main idea of Bill Gates. The PAP regime must have ordered many of those GMO'ed mosquitoes from Billy to release everywhere on this island.

 

[Sustanon]

He 为国为民and Good Hands to All Mankind

He 为 Ji Ki Lan ok Ji Ki Lan.... I don't even want any of his books nor Yuval Noah Harari books to contaminate my library...