Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan

Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by danjoc on Monday January 15, 2018 @07:38PM (#16154848)

>Money well spent.

There have been human costs too,

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/africa/in-nigeria-po...

Of the nine vaccination workers killed, "Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of the head"

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by newfoundglory on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:13PM (#16155250)

That doesn’t seem immediately relevant, could you explain why you mentioned it here?

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by fragmede on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:49PM (#16155408)

Danjoc's linked article is about Nigerian Polio vaccine workers being killed in the line of duty back in 2013, which seems relevant to me, as a person dying is a very real, human cost of polio, all the money in the world cannot fix.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by ridgeguy on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:27PM (#16155311)

Might be irrelevant per HN guidelines.

I took it as a reminder that doing something good may require not only exceptional courage, but one's life. I'm ok with the off-topic aspect of the post.

I continue to be amazed and grateful we have such people.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt... by wallace_f on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:41PM (#16155882)

>I continue to be amazed and grateful we have such people

That's a good thing to mention.

Sometimes when I look at Washington, Wall St., or corporate actions, it makes me fear everyone is a hyper-rational sociopath willing to seek out and screw over the other for any profit. But sometimss I'm reminded of the ones who do good for the future of humanity, not just for their bank accounts.

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