And what youre seeing now is how the 2020 u. S. President ial election is shaping up so far lawsuits calls to stop ballot counts on allegations of fraud draw angry crowds to the streets. Make sure to check out our website r t dot com for faster than light updates on anything and everything surrounding the u. S. Elections ill be back with more of your world new News Headlines in just about half an hour in just about an hour thanks for watching and i hope to see you then. No one. Looking at the white house. I dont think if the phone. And then. Call tom that come on a full. One. Sorry very sorry 6 6 2. Welcome to so think of visionaries may Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty and the our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to how i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the loss of a at Oxford University and the co
Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live i am eugene scott a political reporter of the Washington Post and i would like to welcome our first guest this morning assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force admiral brett, thank you so much for joining me. Good morning it is great to be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to
A couple of Dollars Per Day well they dont have the very very most basic lifesaving. You know medical treatments so a long lasting insecticide treated bed net costs just 4. 00 can for x. 2 children for 2 years. And statistically speaking youll save a life there for just a few 1000. 00 thats incredibly cheap whereas if youre trying to save a life and its currency then. You know some of these other causes youll be spending more like millions of dollars to save a life. Well other tourism is traditionally defined as unselfish behavior for the benefit of the others but its no secret like doing good for others it actually makes you feel good right and it gives you the sense of fulfillment selfrespect that you often look for do you agree that altruism has an element of egoism to it i mean even in this case the desire to just feel very good about oneself the reason for as being altruistic. Well i think we should divorce the idea of altruism some unselfish behavior if i can help lots of people
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Im now going to throw to Stacey Herbert because she is packed in here i want to check in now so what the audience can understand what you were saying is last year around june of of 29 you asked royce of gold money dot com how on earth negative Interest Rates could ever exist because never in history had that happened and he said the one thing it could possibly be suggesting is huge decline in population whether through choice that people just decide not to have children or a pandemic then it would make sense you know a lot of our system is quite massed up and we just refuse to where we have so many sunk costs right that we cant really change course the globe is orchestrated with the infrastructure of finance and banking and geo economics and globalization and trade as all engineered for just in time so theres a kind of inertia that happens when Something Like a black swan arrives like a pandemic and we all are just sit there waiting for something to happen or for it to go away because