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Bill Gates was, for quite some time, the world’s wealthiest person.

According to Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker, he now sits in fourth with a paltry $120,5 billion to his name.

Having founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, the late Paul Allen, and thus ensured he will never go hungry, the idea that he seeks to profit and control humankind via microchips in COVID-19 vaccines is so daft it beggars belief.

But it’s an idea that just won’t go away, along with conspiracy theories that Gates created COVID-19 to profit from the vaccine, so he may as well get in on the fun.

This week, Microsoft shut down Internet Explorer, the browser which launched in 1995, announcing that Microsoft Edge will replace it as the default browser for Windows users.

In response to a tweet from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, reports Business Insider, Gates took the piss:

I guess we finally ran out of microchips. https://t.co/dptfYIGl4k

— Bill Gates (@BillGates) June 15, 2022

In May, Gates was quoted as saying, “I spend billions on vaccines, I don’t make money on vaccines, vaccines save lives.”

He also detailed how he’s been shouted at by conspiracy theorists on the street who say he’s tracking them.

Gates has been in trouble with the law before (his 1977 mugshot is a classic), and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein hasn’t done his reputation any good, but let’s try and maintain some sort of grip on reality, people:

The microchip vaccine conspiracy theory is a false rumour that the Covid-19 vaccine was implanting a magnetic tracking device somehow connected to 5G mobile networks.

A Reddit spokesperson told The Verge the rumour originated on 4plebs, a community-run archive of 4chan, before it sprung onto Reddit, became a popular theory and punchline. It has since been repeated by artists including Charlamagne, M.I.A., and Kanye West.

We can always rely on Kanye to talk total and utter shite.

In the past, Gates’ daughter, Jennifer, has also joined in the fun. On her Instagram account in February 2021, she shared an image showing her getting the jab.

The caption read in part, “Sadly the vaccine did NOT implant my genius father into my brain – if only mRNA had that power…..!”

She has since deleted the post.

A poll in May 2020 showed that 28% of Americans believed that Gates wants to use vaccines to implant microchips in people, with that figure rising to 44% among Republicans.

The movie Idiocracy really will prove to be on the money.

[source:businsider]