"Helicopter dropping Bill Gates' mosquitos." For this string of words to make any sense, let alone terrify (as it is intended), you'd have to be steeped in the most potent of conspiracy teas. A tea that claims "15-minute cities" are actually "open-air prisons" and that Microsoft founder and Epstein pal, Bill Gates, is releasing mutant mosquitos over a Miami suburb, in broad daylight, with a helicopter. 


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These "Bill Gates’ engineered mosquitos" were originally filmed and posted on TikTok by @peluzalamasviral, where she and onlookers questioned what was coming out of a helicopter in the sky. There's an almost blue smoke streak being emitted from the aircraft as it circles round and round. 



Though it's unclear what the trail is made of, people in the comments speculated that it could be smoke or even possibly fuel. 


While the video has a zero percent chance of actually being a helicopter dropping mutant bugs over a Miami suburb the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given funds to initiatives like the World Mosquito Program which seeks to eradicate mosquito-borne illnesses through gene therapy. The World Mosquito Program has not released any mosquitos in the U.S (yet). 



What happened to the good conspiracies? There used to be a time when online conspiracy theorists were at least clever enough to inspire Hollywood blockbusters. Now all we have are lame TikToks of helicopters releasing fuel over neighborhoods their backers are hoping to gentrify. 



The smoking gun for many of the commenters was also the biggest oversight of the video's assertion. Why would you need a helicopter to release mosquitoes in the wild? Did they forget how to fly?