Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

CaptainExplosion said:
The media's praising Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for donating $25 million towards fighting the virus, despite that being more like $20 for them.

We're in the middle of a fucking pandemic and that's ALL they're giving us? Cheapskate parasites.

They could probably have done more for fighting the virus with having folding@home running on their servers for a week or so

Lets say folding@home findes something that helps develope a vacine.
And instead of being 18 months away from being possible... maybe you cut that time down to ~15 months (before you can start giveing it to people).

By then, how many people will have died that those $25 million could have saved? (here and now)

If those 25$ are spent on PPE, and they save nurses/doctors and in turn saves other patients,.... thats alot of lives saved for certain.

Folding@home is a maybe, it does something... and if it does, atbest its a maybe, of how many.... and its really far out (into the future).