The Bizarre COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Targeted At Bill Gates -By Rees Chikwendu

If the premise is incomplete or false, then the conclusion cannot be reliable or true.

I have labored mentally to find a compelling reason to join the bandwagon of conspiracy theorists demonizing Bill and Melinda Gates. The harder I try, the more I find the arguments baseless. Most social media posts I have read applied either false or incomplete premise. They hinged their arguments on the Bill Gates warning on global population growth. Many Africans joined the trend and argued that Gates has an agenda to depopulate Africa based on his warning last year during the World Economic Forum, where he stated that population growth in Africa is a challenge.

However, such an incomplete premise goes against the philosophy of logic. Deliberately or ignorantly, the arguments omitted the parts of several clauses where Bill Gates mentioned, specifically, the actions required on the subject of exponential population growth in some parts of the world, especially the poorest parts of Africa like Northern Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Congo, etc. Arguments predicated on incomplete statements cannot be completely reliable.

A critical look at several speeches given by Bill Gates could remove the misconceptions of a globalist agenda to depopulate the world attributed to them. Indeed, he has always emphasized birth control through contraceptives. He had several times mentioned vaccines as “the magic tool of health intervention.” But these are not the same thing as depopulation of any specific race. Also, I haven’t found any contexts in what he said that connotes or denotes an agenda to spread any form of a virus. Did I listened or read his speeches in the wrong way?

His speeches have always been about providing women in poor countries with the tool to control their family size. According to Gates, most parents don’t choose to have many children because they want to have big families, it turns out, they do so because they know many of their children die prematurely. I think any informed African would agree to that. I heard the same thing from my parents and grand-parents. Polygamy in Africa exists partly for the same reason – a natural method of offsetting death deficits, in addition to parents using children as their life insurance due to lack of healthcare and pensions. Naturally, parents would choose to reduce their family size if they know their children are most likely going to live to adulthood. It is in this context that Bill Gates preaches about vaccines as the magic tool of health intervention.

We have never had problems with vaccines used against malaria, measles, typhoid, cholera, meningitis, chickenpox, polio, etc. Bill Gates has also been a champion of some of these. Why are we suddenly having a problem with the idea of vaccines that, potentially, could cure or reduce the mortality rate of the COVID-19? Some of us are living today because of several vaccinations we had as babies and pre-school children. So why the faux concern about the coronavirus vaccine? Does it matter if it comes from Bill Gates?

I would suggest that if we want to go about cooking conspiracy theories, at least we should base it on some reasoned actions of Bill Gates. Has there been any intent in his speeches, beliefs, or attitudes, suggesting a global agenda to depopulate the world? It’s not enough to use someone’s concerns on global population growth and the need to use a vaccine as a tool of health intervention to demonize the person. For example, if you are a parent, would you not be worried if you have limited resources but many children? Would you not consider the options to manage your family size? Likewise, I do not see anything wrong in Bill Gates’s warning against population growth in a world with limited resources.

Of course, “the heart of man is bad from his youth up” (Genesis 8:21), and one cannot exactly know what is in Gates’s heart, but there is no basis to believe the conspiracy theories targeted at him. What if, after all, he does what he does base on humanist principles? He is a capitalist, and I would think global population growth is good for his business investments scattered around the world. So, maybe, the concerns he has on global population growth come from a good place. Associating evil agenda to someone’s act of kindness is in itself evil. No one lives in the mind of Bill Gates to ascertain his true intentions, especially when there is nothing that he said to make it obvious.

Written by Rees Chikwendu