上周六，美國得克薩斯州奧斯汀民眾舉行集會活動，抗議疫情期間的“居家令”，并且要求重啟經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)工。網(wǎng)上視頻顯示，有民眾打著“疫情是騙局”的標(biāo)語，同時高喊“逮捕比爾·蓋茨”。
Protesters gathered at the Capitol in Austin Saturday afternoon to rally against local stay-at-home orders and to demand Texas businesses reopen. Videos circulating online at the rally show protesters holding signs calling the coronavirus pandemic a hoax and shouting "arrest Bill Gates."
視頻來源：環(huán)球時報新媒體
疫情跟比爾·蓋茨又有啥關(guān)系？《紐約時報》的一篇分析文章道出其中原委：蓋茨與特朗普面對疫情上的意見不合，導(dǎo)致他成為美國右翼分子攻擊的目標(biāo)
《紐約時報》分析指出，比爾·蓋茨對于如何抗擊新冠疫情的立場，使得他最近成為了網(wǎng)上陰謀論者大舉攻擊的目標(biāo)。
Bill Gates' vocal stance on how to combat the coronavirus has made him a massive target of online conspiracy theorists, a New York Times analysis suggested.
文章中寫道，在油管、臉書和推特等平臺上，蓋茨被錯誤地塑造為新冠肺炎的“制造者”，病毒疫苗的“獲利者”，甚至說他卑鄙地利用疫情監(jiān)視、殺害全球民眾。
In posts on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, he is being falsely portrayed as the creator of Covid-19, as a profiteer from a virus vaccine, and as part of a dastardly plot to use the illness to cull or surveil the global population.
福布斯和商業(yè)內(nèi)幕等外國媒體網(wǎng)站也注意到蓋茨成為了陰謀論的目標(biāo)。
據(jù)《紐約時報》報道，同時，這樣的言論還特別有“市場”：媒體分析公司Zignal Labs發(fā)現(xiàn)，今年年初病毒暴發(fā)后，有關(guān)蓋茨制造病毒的言論同樣“暴發(fā)”，在社交媒體和電視廣播中總共提到120多萬次。
The media analysis company Zignal Labs found that posts on social media falsely claiming that the Microsoft founder engineered the virus had exploded since the beginning of this year. In total, Zignal Labs found that conspiracy theories involving Gates and the virus had been mentioned 1.2 million times on social media and TV broadcasts, The New York Times said.
《紐約時報》的文章還指出，尤其是最近，蓋茨對白宮處理疫情問題的評論尖銳。
Especially since Mr. Gates has sharpened his comments about the White House’s handling of the coronavirus in recent weeks.
3月31日，蓋茨在《華盛頓郵報》的專欄中寫道：“毫無疑問美國錯過了提前應(yīng)對疫情的好機(jī)會。如今，我們和我們的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人們所做的選擇，將對病例數(shù)量多快能下降、經(jīng)濟(jì)要停擺多久以及多少美國人會失去摯愛親人產(chǎn)生很大影響。”
“There’s no question the United States missed the opportunity to get ahead of the novel coronavirus,” he wrote in an opinion column in The Washington Post on March 31. “The choices we and our leaders make now will have an enormous impact on how soon case numbers start to go down, how long the economy remains shut down and how many Americans will have to bury a loved one because of Covid-19.”
2015年，蓋茨曾在一場演講中表示，未來幾十年里，如果有什么東西能威脅無數(shù)人的生命，那更可能是有高度傳染性的病毒，而不是戰(zhàn)爭。這樣的“預(yù)言”最近幾周在油管上又火了起來，瀏覽量超過2500萬次，只不過可能不是蓋茨所期望的那樣。
In a 2015 speech, Bill Gates warned that the greatest risk to humanity was not war but an infectious virus that could threaten the lives of millions of people. That speech has resurfaced in recent weeks with 25 million new views on YouTube — but not in the way that Mr. Gates probably intended.
圖源：蓋茨演講視頻
演講中蓋茨還說道，面對新疫情時準(zhǔn)備不利，可能導(dǎo)致比埃博拉病毒更大規(guī)模的災(zāi)難。人們可能在感覺良好的情況感染病毒，可能在飛機(jī)上，或者在商場里。
"The failure to prepare could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than ebola," he said. "You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane, or they go to a market."
《商業(yè)內(nèi)幕》網(wǎng)站指出，蓋茨的猜測與當(dāng)今新冠病毒有相似之處：有無癥狀感染者，癥狀也可能潛伏14天或更久。
Indeed, that is exactly the case with the novel coronavirus — symptoms of the disease don't necessarily manifest for up to 14 days, and potentially longer.
然而，這樣的“預(yù)言”，成為了攻擊者認(rèn)為蓋茨早有打算的“證據(jù)”。
針對這樣的論調(diào)，蓋茨在本月初接受央視采訪時就表明了自己的態(tài)度：很諷刺，尤其是對于那些盡全力幫助世界做好應(yīng)對疫情準(zhǔn)備的人來說。
"I'd say it's ironic if you take somebody who's doing their best to get the world ready," Gates responded regarding the accusation that he's the creator of the virus.
綜合來源：央視新聞，環(huán)球網(wǎng)，CGTN，Business Insider，New York Times，Statesman.com，F(xiàn)orbes
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