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How concerned were you about malaria, prior to this year? If the answer was "I didn't particularly think about it", then you have the answer for how people can
by JoshuaDavid 6y ago
How concerned were you about malaria, prior to this year? If the answer was "I didn't particularly think about it", then you have the answer for how people can be blasé about diseases that have a very high cost in human lives and suffering.
- notahacker 6y agoWe're talking about different kinds of blasé though. Many people - me included - don't think a lot about malaria because they don't live in a malarial area and have the health and healthcare access to probably recover when travelling into them ). In fact, I gave so little thought to malaria even whilst in malarial areas that I didn't devote time to arguing malaria's long term effects were relatively rare and might be psychosomatic so not really worth the Gates Foundation bothering with, which is the specific kind of dismissive attitude towards the disease being called out here.