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Bill Gates fights polio in Africa
Topic Started: Apr 25 2010, 03:11 PM (241 Views)
John Galt
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WSJ article on the outbreak of polio in Africa and elsewhere
Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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ivorythumper
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i was closely watching the Rotary campaign in the mid 90s, where polio was fast tracked to extinction. Indeed it was massively successful.

I can't help but wonder if the shift to "horizontal" strategies, and the resistance of regional leaders to vertical plans, is not self serving. If Bill Gates showed up with a couple of hundred million to do X, I can see people claiming that he should really be doing X*Y, as well as not wanting X to fully succeed since then the money stops.
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John Galt
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Interesting observation, IT. Money talks.

I have the same sort of reaction to many drugs that are created by the pharmaceutical folks. I still wonder how important cholesterol reduction is when compared to reduction of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Cholesterol reduction requires those expensive nifty statins; homocysteine may be reduced by certain B vitamins. Not much profit in homocysteine control.

I have a neighbor who is an active Rotarian. She has been on numerous trips to Africa and India for Rotary immunization programs. She turned 85 a few weeks ago, and her family contributed enough money to Rotary to immunize a couple of thousand kids!
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ivorythumper
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"Polio backers say they are buoyed by reports of just 71 polio cases worldwide this year, vs. 328 in the year-earlier period."

That is down from 350,000 new cases per year before Rotary started the program. At what point don't we call it a success?

Thank your neighbor for me. I was a recipient of the Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship, and went to India on the Group Study Exchange to see the work they were doing. They are doing the work of the angels.
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John Galt
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A couple Rotary angels (I know the one on the right):

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Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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ivorythumper
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God bless her.
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Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
I see Gates as the promise of capitalism. A brilliant man who accumulates power through the free market, then devotes his life to distributing that power in the most pro-social ways he can think of, as an act of freely chosen charity. He'll make some mistakes but I don't think his heart is in the wrong place.

As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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I agree with that assessment, Horace. Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
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Horace
Apr 25 2010, 10:04 PM
I see Gates as the promise of capitalism.
Oh come on, he's an evil monopolist. Its Goldman Sachs that is doing Dodd's God's work.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Apr 25 2010, 10:33 PM
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Is that the new slogan for Windows?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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