Ever since March 2020, the memes have spread. Was Gates a mass murderer with a global depopulation agenda? Was he a "biofascist" seeking control over the world's population through vaccine passports and microchips?

It didn't stop there. Was the Covid-19 pandemic actually "plandemic"? Did the Microsoft founder and his acolytes create it through funding "gain of function" research in a biosecurity lab in Wuhan? Was it all war-gamed at Event 201 in October 2019?

Bill Gates has not much enjoyed being the focus of these stories for the past 18 months. He just wants to help out. He wants to solve problems so badly, he tells us early on in How To Prevent the Next Pandemic, that in February 2020, he flew from Seattle to South Africa to participate in a charity tennis match, no doubt on one of his four personal jets.

It was in South Africa that he first began to join the Covid-19 dots. The tech entrepreneur delivers the story with characteristic flair: "A couple of days after returning from South Africa, I sent an email about scheduling something for the coming Friday night: 'We could try and do a dinner with the people involved with coronavirus work to touch base.'" Gates is happy, "everyone was nice enough to say yes — despite the timing and their busy schedules". His work on the pandemic begins.