It’s a common flaw in society to think that because someone is a success in one specific area that that success can be applied with equal weight in other areas. The classic example is that of Albert Einstein: brilliant mathematician, but political idiot.
How much credence, then, are we to give to this asshole?
Bill Gates forecasts another global pandemic ‘likely’ within next 25 years in ominous health warning.
Even worse, he conflates two unrelated scenarios:
War or another global pandemic, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is cautioning that, if the world manages to avoid the former, the latter is a very real possibility within the next 25 years.
“A lot of unrest” in today’s age could spark a major war.
“If we avoid a big war … then, yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next 25 years,” he continued.
And if we do have a big war, does that mean there won’t be a pandemic, you moron?
I should like to remind everyone that back in the early 1980s, Gates completely missed the oncoming tidal wave of personal computing, and in fact pooh-poohed the entire concept, saying that he saw that there’d be fewer than half a dozen PCs in existence, and that all humanity’s computing needs could be addressed by mainframe computers — to be fair, quite a common thought among Big Iron believers of the time.
So if he could be that spectacularly wrong in his own field, why should we believe anything he says about pandemics?
As they say, to ask the question is to answer it.