Bill Gates said it’s ‘kind of weird’ that ‘crazy people’ are protesting vaccines outside his TED talk when he has helped save millions of lives
Bill Gates said “it’s somewhat ironic” that anti-vaccine protesters falsely accuse him of malice through his work on vaccine development when his organization has helped save millions of lives.
Gates addressed conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine activists on Tuesday at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver, Canada, where he gave a talk on how to prevent against the next pandemic.
Asked how he felt about the protests, Gates said it was “kind of weird.”
“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 getting vaccines to every continent in the world. “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 added: “Does this turn into something where there’s constantly crazy people showing up? Who knows.” – READ MORE
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