"Gates offers a variety of proposals to improve on this — to invest in health innovation, ensure earlier detection of pathogens, encourage the creation of new vaccines and treatments, and close the health gap between rich and poor countries. But his signature idea is called GERM: Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization. Do you know how, in many pandemic movies, there is a team of highly trained scientists who arrive in hazmat suits to respond to outbreaks? They don’t really exist. During the Obama administration, when then-Ebola czar Ron Klain asked the U.S. military to play this role, it agreed to fly personnel into West Africa. But it refused to transport blood samples because it had never trained for that mission, Gates said. GERM is designed to fill such a role. Gates would locate about 3,000 health professionals — experts in epidemiology, genetics, vaccine development, logistics, computer modeling and communication — at the World Health Organization. They would wake up each day with the question: “What can we do to be better prepared for the next pandemic?” And they would constantly rehearse the worst possibilities. “To me,” Gates said, “practice is everything.” It’s not easy to stay prepared for a relatively rare event. But it is not moral or responsible to stay unprepared for one of the most likely existential threats to humankind." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/10/bill-gates-covid-how-to-prevent-next-pandemic/ It's also a lot cheaper.
Perhaps Bill should spend his free time working the bugs out of Windows before he ventures into unknown territory.
