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In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s wealthiest man, Bill Gates, argues that we need a better global supply chain and warning system for infectious diseases, and suggests that something like the simulated ‘war games’ that have long taken place within and between the world’s military forces would help create such a system.
Gates writes:
It’s instructive to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for another sort of global threat — war. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has a mobile unit that is ready to deploy quickly. Although the system is not perfect, NATO countries participate in joint exercises in which they work out logistics such as how fuel and food will be provided, what language they will speak, and what radio frequencies will be used. Few, if any, such measures are in place for response to an epidemic.
Wouldn’t a lot of industries benefits from such exercises? I can imagine a lot of scenarios where the competition and pressure of a ‘war game’ would result in better solutions, especially when we’re dealing with enterprise software vendors.
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