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– All countries must work together to end the pandemic and begin to rebuild economies. The longer it takes us to realize it, the longer it will take and the more it will cost us to get back on our feet. warns Bill Gates.
After the founder of Microsoft (64) stepped down from the day-to-day running of the company, he announced that almost all of his fortune, estimated at 460 billion kronor in 2013, would be used for charitable purposes.
Gates was for many years ranked the richest in the world, but was eventually overtaken by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (56).
– We are 25 years back in time.
Gates is now seriously concerned about how the corona pandemic will affect the businesses and daily lives of billions of people in the coming years.
He thinks that it will take a long time to return to the same level as before the pandemic.
– I am pessimistic about how the fall will probably be in the northern hemisphere. If we don’t take the necessary steps, the death toll in several countries, including the United States, will return to the levels we had in the spring. We are 25 years back in time warns Gates in The Telegraph newspaper.
– Everything has collided with everything else.
Now he fears that the consequences will outweigh the mortality from the coronavirus alone.
– Right now it is a health crisis, an economic crisis, a food crisis, a housing crisis, a political crisis. Everything has collided with everything else. There is a mutual aggravation of disasters, Gates thinks.
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In the Goalkeepers annual report, which shows global progress measured against the UN sustainability goals, various indicators such as infant mortality, hunger, disease and education are mentioned as critical factors.
– No national solution to a global crisis
– It has already gone in the opposite direction after decades of progress, and it will cost many more lives than the coronavirus itself.writes Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Parallels in the preface to the report.
They compare the 2020 pandemic with the Spanish flu, which in 1918 had catastrophic consequences. Still, he believes the world can overcome the pandemic, but on one condition.
– There is no national solution to a global crisis.says Bill Gates, who calls on all countries to cooperate and put aside their own prestige and needs to achieve a common goal.
– This will end sometime in 2022
In the interview with The Telegraph, he concludes with an optimistic scenario of the global crisis.
– Next summer we will send vaccines to all countries in the world. Even with a vaccination level of 60 percent, we should be able to stop almost all the exponential spread of disease. Therefore, I am optimistic that next year we will be the year that the numbers drop very dramatically, and that this will end sometime in 2022concludes one of the richest people in the world.
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