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Bill Gates (64) is committed to developing a coronavirus vaccine and is therefore the target of some vaccine opponents and conspiracy theorists. “There are people who want to see it through a political lens, not a scientific one,” the Microsoft founder said recently in an interview with CNN.
“That can lead to strange opinions.” For years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has fought for better healthcare around the world. There are many claims circulating about billionaire Gates. A fact check:
CLAIM: Gates wants humans to be microchipped in the fight against the pathogen, thus gaining full control.
CLASSIFICATION: Bad connections.
ACTS: Gates wrote in March that at some point “digital certificates” could provide information on who has already survived a coronavirus infection or, as soon as possible, has been vaccinated against it. This claim was mixed with entirely different projects supported by the Gates Foundation, such as research in digital identification, a technology that displays vaccines in infrared light on the skin, and contraceptive methods using microchips. But this has nothing to do with the corona virus.
CLAIM: The Gates Foundation funded the development of the new coronavirus, including a patent.
CLASSIFICATION: It has no basis.
ACTS: The supposed proof: the patent of an institute endorsed by the foundation since 2015 with the title “Coronavirus”. However, it is not about Sars-CoV-2, but about the development of a vaccine against an avian virus from the group of coronaviruses. In immunology, it is common for researchers to modify the genetic makeup of pathogens to make them less dangerous. These are then suitable for the production of vaccines. In addition, scientists consider the development of the new coronavirus in the laboratory implausible.
CLAIM: Gates did not vaccinate his own children.
CLASSIFICATION: Abstruse Quelle.
ACTS: The alleged former Gates physician is said to have said this at a symposium in Seattle in the 1990s. Neither the name of the symposium nor the name of the physician is given. Who first brought this unproven thesis into the world is no longer understandable.
CLAIM: Bill Gates wants to make money off vaccines.
CLASSIFICATION: Quote out of context.
ACTS: As proof of the thesis that Gates wanted to make money from diseases and vaccines, his critics often quote one of his phrases from March 24, 2020: “We do not want many recovered,” he said at the time. He immediately added the following sentence: “To be clear: we are trying to keep the number of infected people below one percent of the population through the closure in the United States.” Gates emphasizes that, in his opinion, it makes the most sense for people not to get infected in the first place.
CLAIM: Gates wants to decimate the number of people on earth through vaccines.
CLASSIFICATION: Incorrect. Gates simply points to a statistical relationship between the death rate and population growth.
ACTS: An appearance by Gates in 2010 should show that he wanted to reduce the world’s population with vaccines. “There are currently 6.8 billion people in the world; the trend is towards nine billion,” he said at the time. “If we do a really good job now with the new vaccines, health care, and reproductive medicine, we could reduce that by maybe 10 or 15 percent.”
He explained the background of the statement several times: In his opinion, there is a connection between vaccines, death rates and population growth. Today, many parents around the world have a large number of children for support in old age, knowing that some of them die before their time. But if more children survived to adulthood, parents could secure their retirement without having many children. (pbe / SDA)
