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Justin - @MindsFiction
6 months ago
RT @balajis: The decentralized response: 23andMe for coronavirus.
If you fear you're infected, swab nose and send sample back for analysis. A Gates-funded lab will give you a diagnosis.
https://t.co/HmymWvfHRm https://t.co/R6PfZ7oZUM
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Kevin Pham - @_Kevin_Pham
6 months ago
RT @balajis: The decentralized response: 23andMe for coronavirus.
If you fear you're infected, swab nose and send sample back for analysis. A Gates-funded lab will give you a diagnosis.
https://t.co/HmymWvfHRm https://t.co/R6PfZ7oZUM
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Sal ₿ Ohcin M.D. ⚡️ - @sal__ohcin
6 months ago
RT @balajis: The decentralized response: 23andMe for coronavirus.
If you fear you're infected, swab nose and send sample back for analysis. A Gates-funded lab will give you a diagnosis.
https://t.co/HmymWvfHRm https://t.co/R6PfZ7oZUM
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Balaji S. Srinivasan - @balajis
6 months ago
The decentralized response: 23andMe for coronavirus.
If you fear you're infected, swab nose and send sample back for analysis. A Gates-funded lab will give you a diagnosis.
https://t.co/HmymWvfHRm https://t.co/R6PfZ7oZUM
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BurnTheRus
6 months ago
As much as this will help people it ought equally serve as a wake up call we live in an oligarchy.
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goblox
6 months ago
But my mom’s friend said Bill Gates created the Coronavirus so he could profit off the cure...? (/s, but this really happened)
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KnowUAre
6 months ago
Wow. I’m surprised these are helping people actually in this country. I love it how Bill and Melinda play ‘hero’ as they skip out on write off US taxes due to funding their charity and proceed to spend the savings over seas.
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1BoredUser
6 months ago
We will have to see if makes a difference if the tests will be ready quickly enough.
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SoggyFlakes4US
6 months ago
Elite playbook 101. “Charity” as a replacement for actually paying taxes. “Charities” run by other elites 100% of the time.
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producerd
:flag-co: Colorado 6 months ago
It is not how it works. Charitable donation is deducted from taxable income and not from taxes owed. Therefore cannot serve as a replacement for paying taxes. There is plenty of other ways to do it. It is definitely one of the most effective tools for PR and advertising though.
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M00n
6 months ago
The Gates Foundation recently announced it’s committing $5 million for coronavirus response in the Seattle area, and much of that will go for expanded testing and analysis. While the initial focus of the test-kit effort will be on the Seattle area, it could eventually expand statewide – and beyond, Dowell said.
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running4cover
I desire all to receive it... 6 months ago
To be clear, Gates has donated about 40 billion dollars in the past 30 years. By their own report the fucking LDS Church has given away 2.4 billion. My math and grammar aren’t perfect but the church is a joke.
Gates is a far better man than anyone in the LDS Church leadership.
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TheFactedOne
6 months ago
To be fair, I only skimmed the article, but i didn't see anything about how much money the Gates foundation has spent. If your numbers are correct though, at they have spent at least 20 times more than 100 million, that would be around 4 billion. I don't see much difference between Gates and the Mormon church. They are both institutions that could easily end world hunger. And they both choose not to.
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stuff171
6 months ago
I honestly agree, since starting the gates foundation he has only gained in wealth and influence. These billionaires are so excessive and never put enough money “back” into the system to justify their existence.
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ShittyTBMResponsebot
6 months ago
Bill Gates doesn’t understand how philanthropy works. He just spent billions of dollars funding vaccine programs that saved millions of lives.
President Nelson set the gold standard of philanthropy. He told the poorest people in the world to get their act together and pay more tithing. It’s the only way they’ll ever get out of the poverty cycle.
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BlurryfacedNico
6 months ago
Our world is unfortunately controlled by money. This is philanthropy.
He could otherwise just keep his money and put it onto the other insanely high pile, like so many others do.
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kadinshino
6 months ago
im willing to bet bill gates is on the governor's emergency advisory board and why he seems to be ramping up action quicker than the rest of the country. Bill Gates doesn't want to die and he loves WA. I can't imagen what he feels not being able to get his white castle burgers.
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overlapping_gen
6 months ago
Um... your sentence is ambiguous there. Do you mean that Gates foundation give 20 times more the total tithing amount paid by all church members? Or do you mean Gates foundation give 20 times more than the church have spent on humanitarian effort towards general public?
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fatmonkey1235
6 months ago
Either way, LDS HQ sucks at charity, geek from Seattle is way better of person (and not LDS).
I think thats the gist of it.
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livingfortheliquid
6 months ago
Because god knows the federal government has been so dismantled and underfunded that we can't count on the CDC.
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TheRealRacketear
6 months ago
The CDC has been neither, thanks to congress (both republican an democrats) . They have been used as a pawn in budget negotiations though.
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Spitinthacoola
6 months ago
CDC has been [underfunded for years](https://www.tfah.org/report-details/2019-funding-report/) and it is definifely having an effect on [public health](https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2019/2018-STD-surveillance-report.html) [outcomes.](https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/27/16371142/stds-syphilis-gonorrhea-chlamydia)
Specifically, now, theyre also being [hamstrung by this administrations FDA](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve) and so we've tested [fewer than 2k people](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615323/why-the-cdc-botched-its-coronavirus-testing/) in the entire US.
I know multiple people who have come down with flu like symptoms who've tried to get tested for covid19 but have been refused.
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TheRealRacketear
6 months ago
So a previous fund that was created for a previous outbreak was depleted.
The same thing will happen after the funds allocated for this outbreak are gone.
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NewlyNerfed
6 months ago
It objectively sucks that this isn’t coming from the government.
But since we no longer have a government that gives a shit, I am enormously grateful that Gates is doing this. He and Melinda really epitomize philanthropy.
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TheThreeCamps
6 months ago
Question, is there any way to reliably test if Ive had it before?
I got sick three times since Christmas and it was pretty brutal every time
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monpapaestmort
6 months ago
Maybe you have antibodies, but I don’t think anybody’s testing for that right now. But I feel you on being sick three times since Christmas. I was sick twice in January (a flu and then a week later a cold) and then this past week I got sick again with a mild fever and a cough, so I’ve been self-isolating. I’m hoping the Seattle Flu Study I did will be illuminating. After I get over this, I deserve to not get sick for the rest of the year. Hope you don’t either.
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nurse-jen
6 months ago
Great if there isn't too high of a false positive rate. Most people just don't grok that if, for example, 1% of people have something and the test has a 1% false positive rate that your chances of having something after a positive test is about 50/50. That's why doctors usually resist tests if they don't think they're needed.
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pedestrianbyday
6 months ago
I'm more worried about false negatives. I could imagine people going "it's okay, it's just the flu" and recklessly exposing people after getting one.
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UnspecificGravity
6 months ago
Why would people feel like exposing others to the flu (which ONLY kills a few hundred thousand people every year) is totally OK?
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pedestrianbyday
6 months ago
Because the death rate is a tenth of that of COVID-19 and because people are assholes and/or have shitty work leave policies :/
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ThisIsPlanA
West Seattle 6 months ago
I don't know, but take a look at every thread online with Sounders fans in the lead up to this weekend's game. A decently-sized group of young healthy people isn't worried about themselves and appear to give no fucks about spreading anything to others, either.
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SB12345678901
6 months ago
"Access to testing is really the major tool we have right now to fight this new coronavirus," he says [Dr. Keith Jerome](https://depts.washington.edu/labweb/Faculty/jerome_keith.htm), a professor in the department of laboratory medicine who runs the lab (UW Medicine)
[https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/812679331/when-coronavirus-struck-seattle-this-lab-was-ready-to-start-testing](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/812679331/when-coronavirus-struck-seattle-this-lab-was-ready-to-start-testing)
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RawSkin
6 months ago
>"Access to testing is really **the** major tool we have right now to fight this new coronavirus," he says
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>Dr. Keith Jerome
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>, a professor in the department of laboratory medicine who runs the lab (UW Medicine)
No, it is not Dr. Jerome! Not everybody will even be tested.
It is more prudent to candidly educate the general public about basic hand and respiratory hygiene regarding the SARS-Cov2 virus, among other pathogens.
What is with all these opportunists?
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UnspecificGravity
6 months ago
You might want to think about the importance of context when analysis a quote. It will help you to sound less shrill and incoherent.
Take for example the quote that you are complaining about:
>"Access to testing is really the major tool we have right now to fight this new coronavirus,"
Now, before you can really understand what is being said here you have to understand who is talking:
>professor in the department of laboratory medicine who runs the lab (UW Medicine)
Okay. So he runs the lab. So now we know that when he says "we" he is likely talking about the UW Medicine Lab, rather than "we" being the whole of the human race, or the whole of the medical profession, or any other possible uses of the word. To be sure, lets take a look at the rest of the article:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/812679331/when-coronavirus-struck-seattle-this-lab-was-ready-to-start-testing
From reading the article we can see that the entire article is about the virology lab which supports the UW hospital network.
So now we have a person saying that the major tool that they have (they being the virology testing lab at UW) is access to testing.
Somehow, with context, that does seem like a pretty sensible thing to be saying. It also makes your response look pretty fucking stupid:
>No, it is not Dr. Jerome! Not everybody will even be tested.
>It is more prudent to candidly educate the general public about basic hand and respiratory hygiene regarding the SARS-Cov2 virus, among other pathogens.
>What is with all these opportunists?
You can be the solution that you propose and start educating YOURSELF by actually READING THE FUCKING ARTICLE before you respond to it.
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UnspecificGravity
6 months ago
Not angry at all, just making it really damned clear that you are contributing to the panic-response by failing to pay attention to what is happening around you before you respond.
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RawSkin
6 months ago
> Not angry at all, just making it really damned clear that you are contributing to the panic-response by failing to pay attention to what is happening around you before you respond
So you are here to mitigate the panic-response to the general US public?
Why not just candidly inform the public (tell them the truth) and let them make their own decision?
BTW, how does advising the public to vigilantly practice hand and respiratory hygiene contibute to a panic-response?
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UnspecificGravity
6 months ago
> BTW, how does advising the public to vigilantly practice hand and respiratory hygiene contibute to a panic-response?
Accusing the head of the UW Virology lab of being an "opportunist" because you are too stupid to read the article that was posted is not achieving anything at all. Your insistence on defending that action just makes it REALLY obvious what a fuckwit you really are.
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6 months ago
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Voldebortron
6 months ago
Look at Hurricane Katrina: when you intentionally defund and neglect agencies it leaves room for that. The mormons and walmart were doing more than FEMA. But FEMA was an amazing agency before that with a great track record.
This isn't corporate altruism or bad government: it's the active yielding of government to private interests, the Republicans wet dream.
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MoscowMitchMcKiller
6 months ago
Not the title just far right wing propaganda, disregard. I’m sure OP believes in trickle down and that Bloomberg will save us all
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DjangoNinja
6 months ago
If you knew how incredibly stupid your comment was you wouldn't have wasted the seconds of your life typing it.
I'm about as anti trump Bloomberg etc as you can get.
In this case I'd put much more faith in corporations charity than the complete fucking idiocy of our government at the moment.
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skremnjava1
6 months ago
Free Market Corporations gave me preexisting conditions.
Government did not.
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cebu4u
6 months ago
Wow! Thanks Bill! Yes, he is definitely stepping up to provide kits for the virus he funded development for and promoted the fact that it was going to happen back in 2018. Good Guy Bill!
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SaltHash
6 months ago
Actual title of article:
Gates-funded program will soon offer home-testing kits for new coronavirus
From this subreddit's rules:
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/wiki/index
Regardless, government can decently function during a crisis when management is competent. Currently, our government is managed by an incompetent clown and his stooges.
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DjangoNinja
6 months ago
Yes. Except governments in this case specifically are funded and have one if their primary goals as the governance and safety of its population. Keeping a pandemic in check would obviously fall under that.
Instead we have a missing pandemic response team. Laughable funding. Extremely slow response. Consistent lies and contradictions of scientific evidence. Complete bungling of safety precautions. Etc etc etc
I'll be amazed if the US doesn't get worse than Wuhan.
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