Tech billionaire Bill Gates addressed vaccine protesters on Tuesday at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver, BC, where he presented his ideas about how to prevent potential future pandemics..Gates pointed at what he saw as ironic that vaccine protesters accuse him of malevolence through his work on vaccine development when he claims his organization has helped save millions of lives..“So it’s somewhat ironic to have somebody turn around and say we’re using vaccines to kill people, or to make money, or we started the pandemic,” Gates said..When asked what he thought about the protests, Gates said it was “kind of weird.”.“Does this turn into something where there’s constantly crazy people showing up? Who knows?,” Gates said..Addressing his audience, Gates also touched on the belief that he wanted to implant chips into the general public. .“I somehow wanna track the location of individuals because I’m so deeply desirous to know where everybody is. I’m not sure what I’m gonna do with that information,” Gates said, presumably with a note of sarcasm..“Hopefully, as the pandemic calms down, people are more rational about, ‘Hey, vaccines are a miracle and there’s a lot more we can do.'”.Gates has previously tackled the protesters’ claims..Earlier this year during an interview with Professor Devi Sridhar, head of the Global Health Governance Programme, Gates said he didn’t understand why people would believe he would want to surveil them in the first place. .“People like you and I and Tony Fauci have been subject to a lot of misinformation,” he said. .“I didn’t expect that. Some of it, like me putting chips in arms, doesn’t make sense to me — why would I want to do that?”.“The Gates Foundation is very involved in vaccines, the invention of new vaccines, funding vaccines, and we’re very proud that, through joint efforts like Gavi, that saved tens of millions of lives,” Gates said, referring to a global alliance working to get vaccines to everyone in the world..As another wave of COVID-19 ripples across the planet, Gates chose his TED presentation to float a $1-billion plan to prevent a repeat of the current pandemic situation..“What we’ve had these last few years is like a horrific global fire,” Gates said. “The COVID pandemic has killed millions and upended economies, and we want to stop that from happening again.”.Gates promoted his idea that a team of 3,000 doctors, epidemiologists, policy and communication experts, and diplomats — to be coordinated by the World Health Organization — would help national health services tackle disease outbreaks that demonstrate potential to morph into deadly epidemics..Gates said instantaneous reaction would be essential to address exponentially growing pandemics..He said that if COVID-19 been stopped in the first 100 days, 98% of the deaths would have been avoided..Amanda Brown is a reporter with the Western Standard.,.abrown@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter: @WS_JournoAmanda
