Microsoft founder Bill Gates issued a warning about a global pandemic in 2015. Humanity was unprepared for the epidemic and the Corona 19 epidemic hit, but in an interview on April 25, he spoke about the hope that could arise after the end of Corona 19.
Since 2015, he emphasized that if there is a disaster that will kill more than 10 million people in the next decades, it is more likely to be a highly contagious virus than a war. Bill Gates, who predicted the outbreak of the virus, emphasized that the world will first be united in hopes for the post-Covid-19 outbreak. After the World War, a new global institution was created and a movement to avoid other world wars arose. Various organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization have joined forces to give up the use of nuclear weapons as a means of resolving disputes.
In the Corona 19 outbreak, many medical workers say this place is like a battlefield. The epidemic is unfortunate, he says, but the only hope is not to cause the same problem again. In the U.S. and Europe, the number of COVID-19 infections has increased exponentially. However, it is true that even in the midst of the trend, people have rapidly improved their testing methods.
He believes that the reason for the Corona 19 epidemic in the United States is that he has not previously experienced another epidemic. In the case of the SARS epidemic in 2002, 27 cases were reported in the United States. Meanwhile, Korea and Taiwan were experiencing the SARS and MERS outbreaks, so it was possible to respond more quickly than the manual on what to do and in what order. In other words, they understood the sequence of first locating all PCR machines and then procuring the materials needed for PCR testing. Even this order has not been established in the United States, which has not experienced an infectious outbreak.
Meanwhile, no one knows what is going on in developing countries about Corona 19. But Bill Gates said that unless something magical happens, many will die in developing countries. Some people are socially isolated and cannot get the food they need. These countries cannot do the same as in the United States.
Looking back at the long-term view of past illnesses, the United States is known to have a great deal of financial aid for HIV, but this is a move started by the Republican regime. The United States is doing a lot of support to improve health around the world, but there are also many inevitable deaths. In the short term, for Corona 19, U.S. President Trump announced the suspension of funding to the World Health Organization. But as long as the United States participates in the global economy, Bill Gates emphasized that if there is a possibility that an infection from outside the United States will enter the United States, raising the World Health Fund will gain more than humanity’s problems, but also from strategic relationships. He said that everyone who has experienced the pandemic is looking forward to global cooperation, and that some may wish for it from before, and that he will continue to work.
Humans can wage war and cause the worst, but they can establish institutions to create innovation and economic growth. Bill Gates stressed that the hope is that what seems to have happened after World War II is happening.