We don't know what is happening behind the shadows, right? There are a lot of suspicions that it might be a plan, we don't know. All we know is that this virus mutated from the past corona viruses that we knew.
I have my suspicions and even if Bill Gates is a software geek, he might be one of those people.
As far as I can tell, Gates is not really that much of a 'computer geek' though he knew something about hacking code as a kid back in the early days. Lots of kids did though. It was basically all you could do on an old 6502 or 8080, and it isn't rocket science.
What Gates has is a maternal side who were central bankers and a mother who was in the same club as the president of IBM and was able to do her a favor by helping out her son.
On the paternal side, it seems that there was an unusually strong interest in eugenics (later known as 'population issues') as his dad headed up Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was a re-brand of some of the pre-WII eugnenics organizations before the nazis gave the idea a bad name.
Bill Gates is obviously a hell of an intelligent and capable guy, but has always been highly cut-throat in business. He wanted to outlaw open-source software because it threatened his business model. He and his pal (and fellow tribesman?) Ballmer tried to cheat Paul Allen out of his share when Allen was sick with cancer (if Allen's side of the story is to be believed, and from all else that I can see about Gates, I don't have any reason to doubt him.)
In the final equation, I see ZERO reason to believe that Gates would be in this thing (vaccines and a host of other technocratic efforts) to help anyone but himself and his class. And I see all kinds of reasons to suspect that, like many of the other ultra-wealthy, he greatly fears the loss of control over the plebs and put a lot of focus on methods of ensuring that it doesn't happen.