I agreed with you at first but that argument could also be used to justify malicious behavior- e.g. I'm a fossil fuel executive who knows that fossil fuels are dying so I'm going to delay that as much as possible by using my money to lobby for pro-oil candidates.

Regardless, I think the OP of this thread is not giving Bill as much credit as he deserves- running and funding an international global health effort is not a simple task and I wouldn't be shocked if he was better at handling public health issues than writing code now.