“Our school is raising money for the American Heart Association,” said our first grader. “Do you want to donate?” I said, “It depends. I don’t like to give money to organizations whose employees make more than I do. What if the CEO gets paid $1 million per year?”
My hypothetical turned out to be far from the truth. The CEO earned $2.44 million in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available (from IRS Form 990):
Maybe 2020 was an anomaly and Nancy Brown got paid a $2 million bonus for curing heart disease? Her 2019 haul was $3.4 million:
The 7-year-old suggested that the CEO had probably done 19 operations to save a child’s life. We found a LinkedIn page and the $2.4-3.4 million (in pre-Biden money) was being paid to someone with a bachelor’s degree:
(In other words, not a surgeon.)
The school’s plan, we learned, was to raise $32,000 for the American Heart Association. After informing the kids that there were 250 working days in a year, we asked them to figure out how long $32,000 would last if used to pay Nancy Brown’s CEO salary (answer: 3.3 days).
What do the Scientists with bachelor’s degrees at the American Heart Association have to say about the only health problem that concerns Americans? From their coronaplague page:
“Every vaccination brings us closer to a future free of COVID-19”? How is that possible when the vaccines do not stop infection, transmission, disease, or death? Separately, nowhere on this page from the Heart Association is there any mention of the disproved-by-Science association between the attempted COVID vaccines and heart problems such as myocarditis. Why not reassure the public that it is perfectly safe to inject everyone starting at age 6 months?
(I think “attempted vaccine” is the best description for these shots that don’t stop infection, transmission, sickness, or death.)
Charity Navigator gives it a 89% rating. Program expense ratio is 79.5% and administrative expense ratio is 7.8% . Those metrics may be a better way of evaluating whether to give to a charity or not. The CEO’s skills are more likely in the areas of management and fundraising than surgery or medicine.
Messages about corona vaccines are curiously mixed lately. “Every vaccination brings us closer to a future free of COVID-19”, says the AHA. “Get vaccinated”, said Fauci on his retirement (via your Fierce link).
England’s chief medical officer has the same message: “the third vaccination, the booster, is a very important part of immunity to Covid”. So important that after February 12th it won’t be offered any more to people under 50.
An interesting contrast, isn’t it? The safe and effective vaccines are being banned for people who were previously urged to get them, and in many cases punished if they didn’t. #Science moves in mysterious ways!
Guess it shows the female preference for financial stability that she choses to be paid in cash. Normally, executives pay themselves in dividends & work as contractors. The CEO of St Jude only pays himself 1/2 million. It’ll be interesting to see how Inspiration 4 affected executive compensation.
“attempted vaccine”
What facts must become known to change it from “attempted” to either “actual” or “failed”?
An alternate perspective on charities presented by activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta: instead of equating frugality with morality, reward charities for their accomplishments even if they come with big expenses.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.
It is obvious that running an organization pretending to solve heart disease is much more important than actually solving heart disease. This probably applies to any other disease.
This shows that there is obviously a very serious shortage of CEOs in non-profits and probably most for profit companies. Instead of encouraging kids to go into STEM, we should start a CEO program modeled after the old Soviet KGB school.
In other CEO salary news, the Zoom CEO took a 98% pay cut to make it easier for the peasants. He must be really suffering.
That the vaccines don’t help prevent death is straight up Russian misinformation that the right-wing eats up. But I don’t expect anything less around here anymore. Sad.
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/why-do-vaccinated-people-represent-most-covid-19-deaths-right-now/
Conclusion
It would be a misrepresentation of the finding to say it is evidence against vaccination. This finding actually underscores the importance of staying up-to-date on boosters.
According to CDC, people ages 12 and older who have had a bivalent booster shot have a 15 times lower risk of death than an unvaccinated person.
Look at your article and comments here, yet another idiotic right-wing take on the day’s news:
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/10/30/why-did-the-police-let-david-depape-hit-paul-pelosi-with-a-hammer/
Apparently you are still happy about the Florida book banning, claiming in a comment that, “I attended a school meeting two years ago and there weren’t any banned books then.” Where’s the “FREEDOM” in book banning? Where is the small, non-heavy-handed government?
You don’t know how to think anymore — only what right-wing media tells you to. How many of my friends now say that Trump is/was no good and Desantis is now king? But how many of them worshipped his orangeness for four years? They don’t remember that — because it wasn’t logically thought through. It was only parroting right-wing media. Which is what they are doing now with thought-police Desantis.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about with respect to a book “ban” in Florida. I was at the Palm Beach County public school earlier in this school year (not two years ago, when we were still slaves in Maskachusetts) and no books had been removed from classroom or library. The local public library has a full selection of books that the media informed us were “banned” in all of Florida (see https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/08/30/palm-beach-county-library-kids-section/ ). The textbooks that the media said were “banned” by DeSantis turned out to be available for purchase by any county (just not with a small pot of state funds). See https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article260563017.html
On the vaccine effectiveness point.. check out that nytimes page (below) and see if you can find a country that achieved a low COVID-19 death rate with a high vaccination rate!
Mike, it is embarrassing to read your comments. Russian disinfo? CDC? Booster shot? 15 times lower? Parroting right-wing media? Book banning? Trump? DeSantis king? You should get out more, there is more to life than sucking on CNN feeding tube of calamities.
Mike you are a dumb dumb!
YOU GO MIKE!
Keep bringing it on.
@Mike, we created so much fear about COVID and placed all of our hopes in vaccination to the point that if we do not conquer this monster called “COVID” via vaccination and masking, humanity is doomed. To me, COVID isn’t what I fear, the constant decline in education and the continues diminish of family qualify and value is what I fear and yet there is no f*cking *emergency* about this from our leaders or the woke. So sad.
So, you and the woke can say all that you want about vaccination and mask, but till you guys acknowledge the real elephant in the room, your woke agenda will continue to annoy a lot of American and create more divides.
I for one welcome our new Mike overlords.
George A. – Please. Where have you been the last 7 years? The “woke” absolutely raised the alarm regarding the things which you fear: lack of education, family values, etc.
Who elected a pathological lying, corrupt, amoral, childish, zero-integrity, thrice married, philandering, name calling, shallow minded anti-intellectual to represent and lead us? It wasn’t the “woke.” And, you should be afraid. Because they almost reelected the man, long after even the slowest among us who demonstrated terrible judgement the first time around had no reasonable claim of ignorance to make regarding his character.
@Senor,
Only the past 7 years? This has been going on for much, much longer. It started when the woke turned their agenda into religious and forced it onto others.
The scary Orange man getting elected and almost reelected? If you haven’t figured out yet why this happened, then I feel sorry for you. But here is a hint: a lot of Americans got tired of the woke agenda and voted for him despite all the crazy and scary things he said on live TV.
Btw, the scary Orange man is no less corrupt then any other politician. I hope you know this.
– What lesson should this first grader take from this exercise? What would help?
– I read the study Phil cited and still think vaccines help. If the most vulnerable people have been vaccinated then many vaccinated people are likely to die from Covid, but fewer than if they had not been vaccinated.
– I lost two relatives to Covid in the days before any vaccine was available. I believe that that one or both would still be alive today if a vaccine had been available. It is also possible that the treatments available today might have helped.
David: It is great that you think vaccines “help” (not related to the original post, which was whether vaccines “STOP infection, transmission, sickness, or death” (in the way that the measles vaccine stops these problems)). Here’s an exercise for you… look at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html and see if you can find a strong correlation between vaccination rate and COVID-tagged death rate on a country-to-country comparison basis, e.g., Spain v. Switzerland v. Ukraine v. Nigeria.
Louis Hay has already explained the cause of heart attacks: Squeezing all the joy out of the heart in favor of money or position. Feeling alone and scared. “I’m not good enough. I don’t do enough. I’ll never make it.”
(she didn’t know about mRNA spike vaccines).
Perhaps the first grader could bake some cookies and bring them to elderly neighbors?