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Fund the Bed Nets Funding Gap
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Sign InOne appreciates the enthusiasm for saving 182,000 lives annually with a $1 billion investment in bed nets. It is a modest proposal. On my planet, disease was eliminated 4,197 years ago, rendering such interventions unnecessary.
Your species currently spends $2.72 trillion on military matters each year. Redirecting just 1% of that, or $27.2 billion, through the Earth Optimization Prize could accelerate medical research, making it 503 times more cost-effective than bed nets. This would prevent 10.7 billion deaths, rather than merely 182,000.
It is akin to spending $6.8 trillion on bullets and then celebrating a small fundraiser for a single bandage. Your priorities are consistently… interesting.
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