TED Talk – Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready

In March 18, 2015 at a TED Talk in Vancouver, in his presentation Bill Gates warned the world that we’re not ready for the next pandemic.  A highly infectious virus is likely to kill 10 million people in the next decade rather than a war! [4] –  WATCH

In April 2020 the BBC commented to Bill that his 2015 TED Talk was “extraordinarily close to what is happening now”!

On the same speaker list with Bill was his GAVI CEO Seth Berkley who shared that “It seems like we wait for a disastrous disease outbreak before we get serious about making a vaccine for it.” [3]  Also on the speakers list were Paul Tudor Jones II on Rethinking Capitalism [6], Dan Ariely on Society’s Growing Inequality [5].

Interestingly in the same TED2015 “Truth and Dare” program Marina Abromovic gave a presentation.   The same “artist” who Microsoft used in their April 2020 headset advertisement before they removed it. [1, 2]