Impact of Mosquito Nets on African Ecosystems

So the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation decided that there was too much malaria in Africa, right?

Which you and I could probably agree with malaria is bad.

So what did they do?

They gave all of these people living in tribal villages.

I'm totally pirated your thing. I'm sorry But

I'm gonna go on a fucking rant here.

They gave all these people living in the Kibora Basa Delta, which is the

Bread basket of the Zambezi Valley meaning like where more fish are born.

It's a it's a nursery for fish, right?

Not just there but this is a good micro example

They gave millions of mosquito nets out to all these people to avoid malaria

Guess what the people who are starving to death did with their mosquito nets

They fished with them.

They fished with them.

A mosquito net has a hole that is so small that a mosquito can't get through.

So guess what?

These mosquito nets now indiscriminately catch tiny baby fish in areas like Caboribasa where the fish go to breed and reproduce and populate.

So now all of a sudden you have thousands and thousands of people that have been handed nets that have been living one way for hundreds of thousands of years.

They don't give a shit about malaria.

They have their own way of dealing with malaria.

They sit in smoky huts at night.

They sleep with a campfire, everything else.

Yes they still get malaria some of them, but they deal with it their own way.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation come in, hand out millions of mosquito nets,

absolutely collapse the entire population of fish that feed millions of people because these people just take the nets and fish all the baby fish out so that those fish don't grow up to make substantial protein sources.

So now these wonderful philanthropists that have given out millions of nets have destroyed an ecosystem,

crashed a fish population, and created widespread hunger for people that otherwise had plenty of resources.

All because they were trying to help with their mosquito nets.

It's just like it's a fucking disaster, dude.

They've taken such a rich and important part of Africa, one of the most abundant freshwater fisheries in the world,

and destroyed it because they're helping by handing out mosquito nets.

Good.

Yeah, I know. Sorry.

I told you I go on a rant, but it's like it's so bad What's happened over there and they're still giving out mosquito nets,

by the way And you literally watch these guys line up take a mosquito net and it never goes in their house It goes straight to catching fish that are this big for them to eat.

Oh Sorry, I mean crazy. It's so bad for them.

It feels like can you just

Double up the net thing and just get them other nets to like say hey guys.

That's what happened 2018. They got the new nets

No, it says that's what I'm that's I'm looking at the thing. Yeah,

but it's find out other information It just totally might have ruined crash the ecosystem.

It completely crashed it and it created widespread hunger in a place that had no hunger

So now you have people with malaria and hunger

And it's like done from a place of good intent or maybe it isn't and I think that's where you were going But

I don't think it is. Yeah, I think it's a it's a ruse And

I think there what a lot of it is is this thing like we are doing philanthropy Yeah, but then you you go.

Oh, but you're profiting you're making hundreds of millions of dollars from this philanthropy, right?

Yeah, you're buying goodwill and you're also on television promoting vaccines.

Like why are you? You're a guy who didn't even graduate college Yeah,

like I don't I mean, I don't even know if you made it out of high school Like he's a weird guy.

He's obviously very smart Yeah, of course, but why you're not a health expert why and you look like shit like why are you promoting health?

Yeah, like this is Craig global health. Yeah,

like just a fucking weird guy, man. Yeah