Who said EA was dying?

I have 1400 contacts on my EAG London spreadsheet!

Yeah I know it's a bit of a lame datapoint and this is more of a tweet than a forum post but hey.... 😘

Drug prices in the US are often absurdly high and not super relevent to other Developed countries, let alone low income countries. New Zealand for example buys medications through a different system, usually far far cheaper than the US does.

And its almost an unrelated parralel drug market in places like Uganda compared with the US, with competing Indian companies competing to sell drugs here, its amazing how cheap they are here really. Some examples

1. Amoxicillin 100 tablets 250mg $1.50
2. Doxycline 100 tablets 100mg $2.20
3. Diclofenac gel (Voltaren Gel) $0.50
4. Iv fluids 500ml (all types) $0.50
5. 1 vial of 1g Ceftriaxone (amazing broad spectrum antibiotic (0.25)

I'm not worried prices will go up here because of an odd Trump emergency order. 

I'm not sure it's "misuse" of voting exactly, I  think people should vote how they want. I just think this downvoting pattern is unfortunate for encouraging discourse and a diversity of views.

I think the eating them during it was one of the main keys to keeping it real and palatable 

As it were...

@tobycrisford 🔸 unfortunately on mamy animal welfare threads, more extreme dissenting views get downvoted to oblivion without strong up votes (like mine and yours) to compensate. This pattern seems mostly to apply to animal welfare threads unfortunately, and I think more discourse would be encouraged if animal welfare supporters didn't obliterate dissenting views.

Only a handful of us, including myself and @Henry Howard🔸 engage with different perspectives on these animal welfare threads and I think it would be more useful if these kind of comments were encouraged, even if only to better understand what many (probably most) non EA people might be intuiting and thinking when they see these arguments.

I'm mostly not engaging with these threads because I often don't find the engagement particularly rewarding unfortunately. I'll keep trying from time to time :D

I think @Henry Howard🔸 s 2 points are very important, even if you don't necessarily agree with them.

This is one of the most useful videos about effective altrutism I've seen. The humor is on point and accessable with zero preachiness! Can't believe both this and Rutger were on the Daly show in the last week.

In the last week I feel that "generally shareable" EA content has had a huge boost.

Hey there @GiveWell do you have a write up of these grants or cost-effectiveness analysis that I can look at, even a brief one? I couldn't find anything through you or Openphil? I've read the podcast transcript so far. Full disclosure I might (if I have the time) write a critical response to this in the weekend. 

Yes it'swhat it would have been based on the original cuts. Things completely different now that funding for medication has been restored. The predictions of malaria and HIV deaths resulting from the cuts would now be slashed I would guess by over 80 percent I think because the numbers were based on medication shortages.

Thanks Meghan yes I'll definitely organise a meeting with Anisa!

It seems to me like it would be challenging for a big international organistion to manage $5 for a year of protection including all management and overheads (often the biggest cost for NGOs), but if that's in the ballpark that's really impressive. 

Do you have a public calculation you can share at all? All good if not!

Quick note I think this is GiveWells reasoning not @Meghan Blakes the OP. She might want to respond though regardless.