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RandySF

(57,661 posts)
Mon May 25, 2020, 11:41 PM May 2020

More than 40% of Republicans think Bill Gates will use COVID-19 vaccine to implant tracking chips, s

Fighting misinformation and conspiracy theories about the novel coronavirus has almost been as hard as battling the pandemic itself. And a new survey has found that one conspiracy theory about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is taking hold.

A conspiracy theory that Gates is planning to use a future COVID-19 vaccine to implant microchips in billions of people in order to monitor their movements has gained supporters particularly among Fox News viewers and Republicans, the survey found.

The representative survey of 1,640 US adults by YouGov for Yahoo News found that half of respondent Americans who say Fox News is their primary television news source believe the conspiracy theory. It's the largest group responding this way, followed by self-described Republicans and "Voted for Donald Trump in 2016" -- 44% of both those groups said they believed the conspiracy theory was true. Twenty-six percent of respondent Republicans said it was false, and 31% said they weren't sure.

Representatives for Fox News, the Republican Party, the White House and the Trump 2020 campaign didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which the namesake founders use to fund medical research and vaccine programs around the world, also didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.



https://www.cnet.com/news/more-than-40-of-republicans-think-bill-gates-will-use-covid-19-vaccine-to-implant-tracking-chips-survey-says/

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
2. Now, why would Bill Gates want to implant tracking chips in everybody?
Mon May 25, 2020, 11:47 PM
May 2020

To broadcast subliminal messages into our brains that compel us to buy the latest version of Office?

DBoon

(22,288 posts)
5. to find out if you are using an unlicensed version of Microsoft software?
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:10 AM
May 2020

Stuff like this makes me afraid to go out, knowing a large percent of people I see believe crap like this.

SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
10. They donated $30 something billion
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:54 AM
May 2020

Mostly for hunger and disease eradication.
So why would he be the evil genius?

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
13. +1, For 3 yrs Trumps poll numbers have been going up and down on how dems feel about him ...
Tue May 26, 2020, 01:42 AM
May 2020

... believe it or not and not how Trumps steady 39% feel about him.

Its been head bending no doubt

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
6. Oh, dear lord.
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:15 AM
May 2020

While I'm not a huge fan of Bill Gates, this is total bullshit. And people who can't see that are total idiots.

TreadSoftly

(219 posts)
7. Yes. My neighbor believes this. Not necessarily Republican, but church.
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:16 AM
May 2020

She is worried about vaccines having little machines in them -- nanotechnology and liciferace (?).

Somehow, they are "mark of the beast" so if she uses this vaccine, she cannot go to heaven. She was worried about HR 6666 as being sign of beast and she relaxed when I researched & found it was just to fund tracing, testing, and advising.

I think this is being spread mostly in churches. She texted me a video of a preacher going on about stuff like this. Thank heaven for the speed option on youtube!

Midnight Writer

(21,549 posts)
11. They are all carrying around "tracking chips" in their phones everyday.
Tue May 26, 2020, 12:57 AM
May 2020

Intrusive spying on individuals is too expensive.

That's why we have social media. It's free stuff, right?

Then how do these companies like Facebook make hundreds of billions of dollars if it's all free?

Because they sell the information on us that we voluntarily put up everyday.

I bet nearly every one of these Republican nitwits are on Facebook, Twitter, whatever, providing personal information and tracking data to God knows who.

Bill Gates doesn't need a scheme to put "tracking devices" on us.

That deed is done, and then some.

renate

(13,776 posts)
14. I wish this post could be put on billboards and shouted from the rooftops
Tue May 26, 2020, 03:19 AM
May 2020

Plus, have people always been this STUPID and we just didn’t know, or is Fox making it happen? How is a microchip supposed to fit through a 25-gauge vaccination needle?

myohmy2

(3,118 posts)
12. it probably...
Tue May 26, 2020, 01:03 AM
May 2020

...makes sense if you're a trump Republican...they seem to struggle with reality...

...we have our work cut out for us this November...

TheBlackAdder

(28,076 posts)
16. Really really really tiny tracking chips, so small they won't block an artery. 😂
Tue May 26, 2020, 03:55 AM
May 2020

.

Yet, big enough where they'll transmit more that a foot when energized.

Let's see. Cell phone, internet usage, license plate scanners, cellphone trackers in newer cars.

But they'll microchip people.

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HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
17. Dye under skin, not chip
Tue May 26, 2020, 07:20 AM
May 2020
https://consumer.healthday.com/public-health-information-30/vaccine-news-689/special-invisible-dye-could-serve-as-skin-s-vaccination-record-753181.html

Gates rumor probably came from this. After all, that small pox vaccination left a permanent white mark on the skin, and for everyone to see.

Will something like either of these be done when a COVID19 vaccine comes out to see who has and has not gotten the vaccination?
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