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The eradication program works by offering cash rewards for reporting cases in areas where the worm is present. Those reports are then investigated and followed
by lysace 9mo ago
The eradication program works by offering cash rewards for reporting cases in areas where the worm is present. Those reports are then investigated and followed to prevent transmission and identify the source.
Clever. I wonder if the same model can be reused for other diseases.
An example:
https://www.who.int/news/item/11-04-2014-south-sudan-introduces-reward-to-accelerate-detection-and-reporting https://www.who.int/news/item/11-04-2014-south-sudan-introdu...
Any individual presenting with the disease who meets all the criteria for containment is now rewarded with 500 South Sudanese pounds (SSP). The informer is given 100 SSP.
- MagicMoonlight 9mo agoI’m not sure it is clever, because you’re bound to get an entrepreneur who infects their local school to farm rewards. It’s inevitable with these kinds of schemes.
- lysace 9mo agoSomehow it seems to have worked here. There's probably a bit more to the secret sauce.
- buellerbueller 9mo agoYou then create a bigger bounty to identify the entrepreneurs, and now it's bounties all the way down.
- onraglanroad 9mo ago500 SSP is about 4 USD. If you have the ability to come up with the scheme, you can do better with pretty much anything else.
- gus_massa 9mo agoIt has been done for snakes. Nobody minds you have a snake farm and sell them to the government. Neighbors may even sell you captured mices. On the other hand, infecting the children at the school will make everyone go to your house, probably burn it and hit you until you are rescued by the police. Did I mention the local police chief has nephew in the school?