Bill Gates knew epidemic was coming (video)

Bill Gates (TED Talk, Vox); Trevor Noah; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Microbes are "monsters," viruses are ghosts.

The world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola in 2014. Thousands of health workers worked and we had good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done.

Bill Gates was told something was coming and to keep his money, he was onboard. He could help spread disease with contaminated vaccines or profitable force immunization regimes.

(Vox) How Bill Gates plans to make money from disease modeling.

There are many ways to make money from fear.

What scenario might make the most money for him and his foundation? Vaccine research is super profitable, as Big Pharma knows. It's right up there with arms sales. As he says, "There's no need to panic... BUT we need to get going." Money doesn't make itself.

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