Either way, seems to me that the economics don’t support producing and disposing of band-aids compared to total eradication of malaria. We have the knowledge and technology to do this, yet we’re hamstrung by emotional and illogical tree-huggers.

By the way, mosquitoes may be worse at night, but where malaria is rampant, rain forests and other areas shaded from direct sunlight, they are 24/7.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but DDT isn’t a repellent, rather a delayed-contact killer and more effective on larvae. A little DDT in the house helps after the fact — any malaria-toting skeeters that get inside will already do damage before they succumb to DDT hours later.

Overall, it is more effective to spray DDT where they breed. This is why native govt agency after agency clamor for access to DDT as an eradication program. But uppity nanny-ish Westerners continue to deny them the real solution to malaria, offering band-aids instead.

The people aren’t bright enough to realize their need for revolution, so the activists have to go the Gov route and force all these good things on them.

It never occurs to them that their philosophies are worthless.

Business is about finding a way to make money by serving a need of someone who can pay for it. It does not begin with a desire to help one’s workers or suppliers.

Indeed. That’s why going out of your way specifically to import something from Africa would be a species of charity. And a more effective form of charity than funneling money into the Swiss bank accounts of the African country’s ruling elite.

Quote from WaPo:

She’s still holding out for the ideal: a job that takes her to Africa for health projects and gender relations issues. As she continues temping, Hanley scours e-mail forums for job possibilities and sets up interviews — some with real stakes, some informational.

It’s been quite a few years since Psych 101, but what was that thing about the Maslow’s 5-Levels? Seems to me that the last thing on anybody’s mind when they’re at Levels 1, 2 or 3 is gender relations! Health projects, perhaps depending on the health project being dispensed, but gender relations? Give me a break. But I guess that’s goes hand in hand with all the other misguided ivory-tower psycho-babble masquerading as compassion.

Lemme guess, for this naif, gender relations to empower this poor village widow trying to eke out a living for her 3 starving diseased-racked kid would consist primarily of a rendition of The Vagina Monologues at the village square. “I am woman, hear me roar”.

I’ll bet that the health project she has in mind is that stupid commercial about nothing-but-nets.

Hello!?! Nets only work when you’re in it — as in sleeping! Doesn’t do squat when you’re going about your daily routine of surviving. How about some DDT to terminate malaria?

Or maybe it’s birth control. Hate to break it to you, young lady, but the trick to bringing down birth rates is actually counter-intuitive — just like you raise revenue by lowering taxes. Help ensure that kids survive childhood and the birthrate will go down. People tend to reproduce more often when the risks are high that their offspring may not survive childhood. Yet, the US and UN wants to throw ever more taxpayer’s money at birth control.

Business is about finding a way to make money by serving a need of someone who can pay for it. It does not begin with a desire to help one’s workers or suppliers.

I really with they’d stop calling it an “industry”. Industry is industrious, it produces things. It generates money, it doesn’t just consume it. The best this field of activity could be called is an avocation, but it’s really not much more than a hobby.