Bill Gates, the Microsoft tycoon, has said the global coronavirus pandemic is his “worst nightmare”, and he will fund the manufacture of several vaccines even prior to their being approved so they are ready to distribute as quickly as possible.
In an interview with the Times, the billionaire – whose charitable foundation is reportedly the biggest funder of the World Health Organization – said he had been concerned about the impact of a viral pandemic for years.
The largest contributor to the World Health Organization is an oligarch. Planetary response to a deadly worldwide pandemic is lead not by a world health organization, not by the governments of European democracies, but by an oligarch who this year bought a yacht which cost three times the amount he contributed to the WHO.