For a rapacious mega-billionaire who was buddy buddy with Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates has a remarkably positive public image, most likely thanks to the tens of millions of dollars he’s “contributed” to hundreds of different media outlets. But an oligarch has to always be on the lookout to make sure the masses never wise up and turn on you, which is likely why Gates is still pushing the idea that blame for the pandemic rests on vaccine skeptics who refused to take the jab.