I don't believe for one minute Melinda is doing this on her own. These people are bright and can get the best advice. I think the "divorce" may be a way to salvage part of their personal billions as well as Gates Foundation money from legal suits ag. the Gates Foundation. At least one country is Africa claims a Gates Foundation vaccine program ended with most of the young girls in a viilage having damage and infertility. Early in 2020, Gates stepped down as head of Microsoft. Whether he was asked to or did it voluntarily matters not as it was quickly revealed in the intial months of 2020 is was noted that the Gates Foundation eerily had funded Event 201 in Sept 2019, just before the pandemic materialized. Event 201 was a strategic simulation exercise of a worldwide Coronavirus pandemic in order to plan how to handle it. Then later comes the divorce.

This a link to a bitchute video of Bill & Melinda interviewing together re: their views on the current pandemic.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wkTO0Klaue2S/ They appear to be on good terms and CLEARLY on the same page when you see their reaction & answer to whether Covid was being paid enough attention to/taken seriously enough or some such. The shared smirks show me she was fully aware of Bill's work. I don't think she can salvage her reputation, but together they have to salvage at least 1/2 the money from lawsuits. Because lawsuits they will surely see.

Edit: Sorry: That link is dead now. I'll hope someone here archived better than I did.