We Must Find a Way to Prevent Bill Gates from Preventing the Next Pandemic
We Must Find a Way to Prevent Bill Gates from Preventing the Next Pandemic A book review. eugyppius For days now, I’ve been fighting my way through Bill Gates’s disturbing new book on How to Prevent the Next Pandemic , and I’ve found myself wondering about one question above all: How are we to explain Gates, exactly? I know that for many of you he is a calculating conspiratorial goon. Pretend for a moment that he’s not, though. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that he’s every inch the obtuse, naive and self-important former software developer that he seems to be. How did he get this way, what does he even think he is doing, and what can it mean? Remember that this man has billions of dollars . A whole world of unusual vices stands open to him: He could hire a mercenary army to invade some country and proclaim himself god-emperor for life. He could retire to a tropical island with his favourite mind-altering substances and a harem of nubile young women. He could do bo...