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The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | Pandemic predicted in 2015 (TED)
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In 2015, Bill Gates sent the alarm: the next global disaster won't be a nuclear war, it will be a pandemic, a virus spreading all over the world and -he warned- WE ARE NOT READY!


Five years later his words came true with the coronavirus pandemic, and we were still not ready.


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Transcript

When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food and water. When the nuclear attack came, we were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.