While promoting his global WHO-led GERM pandemic response initiative, Bill Gates said the worst may be yet to come with COVID.

“We’re still at risk of this pandemic generating a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal,” Gates said in an interview with the Financial Times.

“It’s not likely, I don’t want to be a voice of doom and gloom, but it’s way above a 5 per cent risk that this pandemic, we haven’t even seen the worst of it.”

Of course, scaring the public with this rhetoric will help Gates in many ways. First, it helps him sell his would-be-irrelevant book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. But more importantly, it allows Gates to justify his new pet project: the GERM team.

As reported by the Counter Signal, Gates wants to create a global “GERM” team that will work with the WHO to monitor sovereign nations and decide when to suspend people’s civil liberties, force them to wear masks, and close borders.

“We need a permanent organization of experts who are fully paid and prepared to mount a coordinated response to a dangerous outbreak at any time. In my book, I propose that we call this group the GERM—Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization—team,” writes Gates on his website.

And it appears that Gates isn’t alone in perpetuating the never-ending COVID narrative, with many forwarning of the return of restrictions.

For example, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health recently said that people should expect mask mandates might return when the seasonal nature of the virus picks up again in the fall.

Universities and institutions are also reluctant to dismiss their vaccine mandates and instead opt to announce “pauses” to their policies.

It wasn’t until they got hit with a human rights complaint that the University of Toronto announced that it was “pausing” the vaccine mandate and the mask mandate, effective May 1.

Likewise, Ford Motor Company of Canada continues to extend the cut-off for its mandatory vaccination policy instead of abolishing it altogether. The cut-off date that would see unvaccinated employees fired has bounced from January 3 to March 28 to May 2, and now it’s July 4, workers say.

Rather than move on from COVID like countries such as Greece and Denmark have done, accept the endemic nature of the virus, the threat of a “worse” pandemic ensures that restrictions always remain at an arm’s length away.