Bill Gates is not secretly plotting microchips in a coronavirus vaccine. [View all]
While the United States spends billions in an all-out effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, theres concern that when there finally is one, not enough people will take it to protect the population as a whole.
Even with a vaccine months and perhaps years away, misinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccines for COVID-19 are swirling online, potentially driving people away from getting vaccinated when one or more become available.
One of the wildest is a false story about a purported evil plan by Microsoft founder Bill Gates to use mass coronavirus vaccinations to implant microchips in billions of people to track their movements.
In a media call announcing $1.6 billion in funding for immunization in poor countries, Gates said the misinformation about his work on vaccines was so weird that he found it difficult to understand and he categorically denied hes involved in any sort of microchipping conspiracy.
In a way, its so bizarre you almost want to see it as something humorous, but its really not a humorous thing, he said. Its almost hard to deny this stuff because its so stupid or strange that even to repeat it gives it credibility.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-not-secretly-plotting-101102431.html
Check the comments to the Yahoo article if you dare. Some real whackadoodles.