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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

By: Bill Gates
Narrated by: Bill Gates, Wil Wheaton
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics—how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their arrival in our future. The future, of course, is now, and now is when we have to plan against a next one.

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic is a clear and upbeat plan of what every country, every government leader and every individual can do in order to help prevent another pandemic, grounded in Bill's firsthand experience with the Gates Foundation's commitment to fighting COVID-19.

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Bill Gates involvement with efforts to fight COVID is the subject of many wild and wacky conspiracy theories including that he is now monitoring everyone who had a vaccine. While he is busy monitoring my comings and goings between the supermarket, work home etc he managed to write a book suggesting many ways that we can prevent the next pandemic (man-made or natural). The book is full of great plans that will never happen as most rely on the majority of world governments agreeing to do something and then doing it even where there may be no evidence within their tenure that it has saved money. Just like they are with climate control which is now spiralling towards making the earth slightly warmer than Venus.
The book is filled with many great ideas that I am sure will go some way towards preventing the next natural pandemic although I am not so sure about man-made bio terrorist events as if I were them I would read this book and make sure my lab created virus could get by the controls he suggests.
I ‘read’ this via an audio book but after completing it I realise that it would have been much better as a traditional book as it is something I am sure I would like to refer to later on and this format does not make that easy.
Overall an interesting book with some great ideas but will probably only serve as something to look back at when the earths’ population has been decimated so we can say if only…...

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I enjoyed this from beginning to end although Wil is reading it as though the list is 4 years old!! It’s very informative. Don’t listen to the 1* reviews as they’re biased against Bill Gates just assuming he’s a tech billionaire who cares about nothing. He’s invested billions of dollars in his foundation and other charities and really seems to care for others. Good story and well written

A really good listen

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Don't listen to the reviews saying the narration is bad - while yes Bill Gates narrates the introduction and sample - another narrator steps in at chapter 1. Bill Gates can't narrate to save his life, he truly is an atrocious narrator and sounds like a robot, however, the main narrator is much better.

The book is very informative however it's very biased towards one side. Nothing in this book about how lockdowns cause mental health issues, or how lockdowns absolutely destroyed many small businesses, or how people were fined for breaking covid rules...simply for sitting on a park bench OUTSIDE. and the things he did mention like how people couldn't see loved ones before they die, he refused to go into the devastating effects of this. Same with schools closing - he only briefly mentioned it without going into the detail. it's clear this book is pushing an agenda but that doesn't mean it's not informative. I've learned a lot of legit information from this book.

Trying to be open minded

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This book is quite simply awful. It is corrupt, biased and highlights how the world has been manipulated through corporations and privileged elites.

Awful!

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I literally couldn’t continue listening to this book. The narration is so intensely over animated that it’s distracting, embarrassing and off putting in equal measure.

Horrific narration

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For a book with so many great insights, it is let down by how the condescending the narration is. Bill, if you are reading this, find another narrator and get this rerecorded. It was such a struggle to finish this audiobook

Shockingly bad narration

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Books seems great, but had to stop at 2nd chapter due to terribly irritating and condescending narration. Would be great if this got re-recorded…

Bad narration

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