Nigohosian Schema

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Today I decided to watch a TED talk for my schema builder, and it was Bill Gates talking about the dangers of a future outbreak and how we aren’t prepared currently. This video was made in 2015 as he talked about the recent ebola virus outbreak and some of the issues with pandemics and how we weren’t prepared for it. He used this as a lead into how an outbreak would wreak havoc on the world if we continued to disregard creating plans for future pandemics. After watching the video, it was scary how accurate some of the information he presented was. He explained ideal conditions for a virus to spread, and the coronavirus has many of the characteristics that could prove to be dangerous to the world and so far it has been.

It’s ironic how we were given the knowledge to prepare for an outbreak through the experience of dealing with the ebola virus outbreak, and we were even lucky with how little it spread because of the conditions of the virus. In spite of this happening, few precautionary measures were taken when the possibility of a potentially dangerous had broken the news, and its as if history is repeating itself again. I think that Bill Gates has taught some very valuable information that we should heed when dealing with future outbreaks in order to prevent something of this magnitude or even worse from happening again.