Who are some non-medical public figures who warned about the possibility of Covid?
Everyone (me included!) now says Covid proves our preconceived ideas right, but who were the writers, thinkers, intellectuals, leaders, activists, etc. who warned about the risk before it happened?
I can only think of Bill Gates. Rather embarrassing for us who are not big fans of him but none of the people I'm a fan of tried to warn us about this.
@LeoSammallahti On Gates...if he knew, given his financial resources, why didn't he take action?
To be fair to him I think he did but not much he can do if governments aren't listening.
@LeoSammallahti At Gates wealth level, he can make governments listen. (At least in the USA, our politicians are buyable and not that expensive. Gates knows that from the Microsoft antitrust trial.) He could start manufacturing of PPE and respirators. He could fund more research into the viruses.
@LeoSammallahti The bottom line is that Gates needs a profit motive to take action. He isn't a philanthropist, like the media claims, just a disaster capitalist. His pandemic warnings were driven by a desire to increase his wealth, otherwise he would've undertaken the funding he was asking for.
Maybe the reason no other "leaders" spoke out was they couldn't come up with a way to profit from it.
