BILL GATES: Prophet or Planner?

At a TedX talk in March 2015, Bill Gates said this:

"If anything kills over ten million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly nifectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes...

The best lessons, I think, on how to get prepared are again, what we do for war. For soldiers, we have full-time, waiting to go...

We need to do simulations, germ games, not war games... We need to get going, because time is not on our side... If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic."

In 2018-2019, the United States was the largest contributor to the WHO budget, at $893 million. The Gates Foundation came second, with $531 million.

Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, says:

“Currently, WHO has full control over only about a quarter of its budget. WHO, therefore, can't set the global health agenda and has had to do the bidding of rich donors, not only rich nations in Europe and North America, but also rich philanthropies such as the Gates Foundation!"

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is responsible for over 88 per cent of the total amount donated by philanthropic foundations to the WHO.

And that means, the WHO has to do what Bill Gates wants. ('WHO... has had to do the bidding of rich donors')