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>> a virus that spreads extremely easily, has greater than 50% mortality, and has an incubation period of several weeks? ... without the world having time to prepare, could wipe out more than half the population in a matter of months.

I am not sure if Sam or anyone would have expected this to happen in the near future?

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Sam seems preoccupied with a weaponized virus rather than a natural mutation.

Gates had a 2015 TED talk about “the next epidemic”

Hopefully we will be more prepared for the next one. Covid-19’s mortality is much lower than 50%, so in some sense this is a warm up for the big one that Sam fears.

It has nowhere near a 50% mortality rate, luckily.

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