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Yes we should be so flippant about hundreds of thousands of people dead. How dare you ask me to sacrifice going to a restaurant for that?

nostromo 7y ago
For you it's not eating out. For working families it's losing their jobs, their healthcare, and their housing because a bunch of healthy young people, that are facing almost no risk, are afraid to leave their apartments. In Seattle we're one week into this and 50+ restaurants have closed and hundreds of jobs have been lost. Those people can't pay rent and now have no healthcare. That's one week. In one month it'll be much worse. By the way, you can prevent a malaria death for about $50 in Africa. It kills 500,000 people a year. How many dinners have you sacrificed to save those lives, personally?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  > Those people can't pay rent and now have no healthcare. That's a problem specific to America. But regardless, what got is "having healthcare" if you don't actually have healthcare, because the whole system gets DDoSed by COVID patients in critical condition?
- robryk 7y ago
  > By the way, you can prevent a malaria death for about $50 in Africa. Could you point at a source of that? Last I've seen the Against Malaria Foundation was estimated to save 1 life for every couple thousand dollars.
  - loeg 7y ago
    Yeah, GiveWell estimates $2331/death averted for AMF (2019). See sibling comment for their spreadsheet.
- loeg 7y ago
  > By the way, you can prevent a malaria death for about $50 in Africa. This figure is fictitious; you just made it up. AMF, one of the most cost-effective anti-malarial charities in Africa, averts one death for about every $2331 in donations, per GiveWell's 2019 analysis: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zLmPuddUmKsy3v55AfG_e1Quk-ngDdNzW-FDx0T-Y94/edit#gid=1364064522 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zLmPuddUmKsy3v55AfG_... (Listed as: "Cost per death averted at any age.") > How many dinners have you sacrificed to save those lives, personally? Personally? Not that it's any of your business, but I've given $50k to the Against Malaria Foundation.

nostromo 7y ago

For you it's not eating out. For working families it's losing their jobs, their healthcare, and their housing because a bunch of healthy young people, that are facing almost no risk, are afraid to leave their apartments. In Seattle we're one week into this and 50+ restaurants have closed and hundreds of jobs have been lost. Those people can't pay rent and now have no healthcare. That's one week. In one month it'll be much worse. By the way, you can prevent a malaria death for about $50 in Africa. It kills 500,000 people a year. How many dinners have you sacrificed to save those lives, personally?

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> Those people can't pay rent and now have no healthcare. That's a problem specific to America. But regardless, what got is "having healthcare" if you don't actually have healthcare, because the whole system gets DDoSed by COVID patients in critical condition?
robryk 7y ago
> By the way, you can prevent a malaria death for about $50 in Africa. Could you point at a source of that? Last I've seen the Against Malaria Foundation was estimated to save 1 life for every couple thousand dollars.
- loeg 7y ago
  Yeah, GiveWell estimates $2331/death averted for AMF (2019). See sibling comment for their spreadsheet.
loeg 7y ago
> By the way, you can prevent a malaria death for about $50 in Africa. This figure is fictitious; you just made it up. AMF, one of the most cost-effective anti-malarial charities in Africa, averts one death for about every $2331 in donations, per GiveWell's 2019 analysis: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zLmPuddUmKsy3v55AfG_e1Quk-ngDdNzW-FDx0T-Y94/edit#gid=1364064522 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zLmPuddUmKsy3v55AfG_... (Listed as: "Cost per death averted at any age.") > How many dinners have you sacrificed to save those lives, personally? Personally? Not that it's any of your business, but I've given $50k to the Against Malaria Foundation.