Published 16:03 IST, March 19th 2020
Prateik Babbar posts Bill Gates' 2015 talk on virus possibilities; fans left unimpressed
Prateik Babbar recently took to his social media handle to post a Bill Gates video, which warns about an airborne epidemic. Read more to know what fans feel.
Coronavirus has affected over two lakh people worldwide and has caused over eight thousand deaths. Governments across the globe are taking efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Schools and colleges have been kept shut, and several offices are closed off for now.
Amidst this, Prateik Babbar took to his social media handle to talk about how Bill Gates had warned about such an outbreak years ago. But fans are not happy with the fact that even when Gates knew that such a calamity may occur he did not do much about it. Read on to know more about what Prateik Babbar fans have to say:
Fans are not impressed by Prateik Babbar's Instagram post
Prateik Babbar took to his social media handle to post a video of Bill Gates recorded in the year 2015 at an event. In the video, fans can see that Bill Gates had warned the world about a threat similar to Coronavirus. He talked about how we are ready for nuclear warfare and that we have nuclear deterrents, but we are not ready for an epidemic.
Gates talked about the history of such viruses and talked about the Spanish flu that had killed many. He also said that this can be stopped, but we need to prepare ourselves for such threats by building a response system. Fans of Prateik Babbar were not impressed by this as they feel that Gates should have done something regarding this situation in the past as a safety measure.
An Instagram user by the handle name harry17in stated that ‘Illuminati knows everything’. Another user asked if Gates knew so much then why did he not act on this. Some fans were seen talking about how futile it is to think about what could have happened. They felt that it is now the time for action and that we need to do everything we can to contain coronavirus at our level and not indulge in spreading mass panic.
Updated 16:03 IST, March 19th 2020