Topic: Why not we donate some Bitcoin for corona virus? - page 4. (Read 761 times)

To make a donation campaign like this you have to be an established entity with a proven record. You just cannot randomly start your own, and expect the money to actually reach its intended destination.

If OP collects money, who is going to ensure it reaches China? And the entirety of it? Sure the Chinese government probably accepts donations, and such donations probably wouldn't even be used for the virus and there is no way you can even audit that. Some organizations send things instead (such as masks) but again they will go to the government and then they will decide who gets them and who don't, and what quantity.

This is a big problem with raising money for causes. Or are you going to aid big pharma develop a vaccine?

The Chinese companies are taking the chance to improve their relations with the government, don't think the likes of Binance are suddenly humanitarian. Yes its nice of them, maybe they get some tax exemption later. Lets just hope some of their money actually reaches victims, but no one can truly audit that, people can only hope.

I think the best thing you could do is in fact help develop a vaccine funding those efforts to something local to you (that you can verify), or ask one of the world renown non gov humanitarian organizations to see if they are taking bitcoin donations.

Something similar happened before with the Amazon fires, people here wanted to "give money" but didn't stop to think what that money was doing (if anything). Indeed Brazil did not stop their century old deforestation policy ("developing").

Please when you feel the urge to donate your money, be smart as if you were doing an investment. Perhaps doing an actual investment in something that might benefit the intended cause may actually be better.

Are you serious about this one? Almost all the countries already feel the threat of this virus and it will increase more if we can’t still find the cure, the Media might exaggerated the news but the death rate is really alarming. China might not need the money, especially our donation because we all know that they are rich in resources and money but still if we can help them do so, my prayers to all the individuals who are suffering now because of the virus.

It is a new strain and therefore it is going to take some time to create a vaccine. It may take anywhere from a few months to a couple of years. I heard that facial masks are in short supply and donating some medical equipment including masks will be a great way to help the Chinese. But there is very little that can be done on our part, since the virus is extremely contagious and spreads through air. The only way to stop it is by enforcing lockdowns and quarantines. And it is up to the Chinese government to do that. 

China is one of the richest country today and I beleive they do not need money for donations, what they need is medical staff volunteers and a huge supply of materials use to prevent the spread of virus like face mask and the most important what they really need is vaccine which until this time no cure for ncov-2019.

Money for what?
There is no starvation happening in China, but just a spreading of virus there and no money can help with that. It could help for research of vaccine but it is said that it might take within or more than a year before one would be created. I don't think that money could speed the progress of making a cure.
(Reference: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-vaccine-could-take-years-timeline-and-cost-2020-2)
Important thing for now is to donate mask to the people there for protection, as what others mentioned here.

The cure is what they needed other than money we can donate to them.
Even we can donate money as long as the virus is still there hey will need more donations from others the problem is the virus if the virus gone all other problem will be resolve . Hopefully some country will have that cure so this problem will be ended very soon.

Let's not forget that all this thing about the virus is something that the corporations and elite are creating on purpose to profit from people's fear, so they create the virus and they create the cure, it is round business, people need to wake up and see what is behind all this drama.

All affected nations are working to find solutions in how this virus will be cured or how their hospital will able to hold and not to allowed this problem
to spread out. Donations will help though like what you have said that there are much wider concern from other issues that being raised and looking
to help those people are really needed.

Well.. you can't say like that, because the virus is having a huge impact in China. Almost 50 million people are in lockdown, in cities such as Wuhan, Xiaogan and Wenzhou. The total economic loss til now is expected at somewhere in the vicinity of $150 billion, which can increase significantly in case the outbreak is not contained. The number of infected people are increasing at a rate of almost 3,000 per day and the disease is spreading to previously uninfected areas with each passing day. Western media also believes that China may be under-reporting the number of cases and deaths.

Under these circumstances, how can you say that the impact is not big? 

The  Coronavirus is here to stay, and was obviously created as part of the global eugenics programmes declared by the likes of Bill Gates, John Bolton and Hilary Clinton. Even if you were to donate all of the Bitcoins in existence, it is unlikely to be enough. It would be far better to create a trust to research the long term effects of vaccination ( over 10 years), and the damage done to immune systems. More people have dies as a result of influenza, and it would be interesting to see the percentage of those who are unvaccinated. I thnk the results would shock those who blindly push vaccination as "health care".

My understanding is that people with a healthy, naturally built immune system are not at risk from the coronavirus, and may not even show any symptoms if they contract it, although they will still be able to pass it on.

Corona Virus is not that big of a problem , you should understand that if you really wanna help , I think it would be better to donate for the Australian bush fire trust me when you think impact wise it's more of a problem there .
The Virus is a new thing that we do not have any vaccination or any passive dose against therefore the people are scared .
But we should be able to understand that right now the government are working against it and they will develop antivax.

It is a virus so what would you expect. There are lot of ways in order to help and also, the problem starts to spread to different countries. In China, patients are being treated but since it is viral, it also causes panic and if yoj would watch news, there's still a shortage in terms of other medical services. It is possible to help, maybe not direct crypto, but fiat could be used or by other means. In my country, there is a shortage of face masks, since many people panicked about this issue. Some people hoard and make use of it to make money, which shows greed.

I strongly agree with you in regard of using the face mask, that's at least adding extra layer of protection, but base on the research on how it is being transmitted from one person to another, is through a tiny droplets of saliva coming from an infected person that sneezes or cough. When this saliva travels through air or touched to any surface and gets a direct contact to another person, then It might cause the other person to be infected by the virus.
But, then again, any necessary steps that makes you comfortable to secure yourself from being infected is all good, and that includes disinfecting yourself everytime and wearing of face mask.

Many will likely help if they can see solid proofs that their donations are used for people in need and not used for something else. Wish there are ways I could track my donations, For example: from when I send my donate> To when it gets to your organization> To Hospital> To doctor> Patients needs.

But if this turns out to be safe I will give the little I have

Just like what I've said mate we will be focusing to those victims in our own country because the problem is not only in china but worldwide that even United states of America  is affected.

We will be focusing on our local victims and also their family because they also need help not only those in social media that looking for sympathy but not doing anything to help victim's.

Since every body here is in the opinion that China does not need any help, I think we should then start concentrating on poor countries like Africa. If any one knows how to contribute to the cause either through fiat or crypto please do share it here.

Exactly, I believe some bitcoiners already made donations in some other ways if they wanted to there's no need to open a topic abut it and besides not all countries were affected by the outbreak so not all may not want to donate or what. Anyhow, I think you have good intentions but lets those authorize organization to solicit donations if necessary.

I think it is a very good step and you might be able to combine the collection of your funds to several institutions so that it can multiply and can be directly channeled to China or if you have channels or friends in China can use the cryptocurrency method as one of the shipments funds that have been collected.

The fear for Novel Corona Virus is just hysteria and overblown by social media. We do not need to start a donation process but what we need is to start spreading real information. The mortality rate for NCOV is low and if you do not have a compromised immune system, you would likely survive it with proper medical attention. And like an ordinary flu, it is not airborne so N95 mask is not necessary. A surgical mask will help protect you. But to properly protect yourself, you just need to practice proper hygiene, avoid touching your face, wash your hands often, boost your immune system, have enough rest and do not stress yourself (it will lower immune system) over the fear of NCOV.

As you can see from the current stat, the mortality rate is just about 2%.

Why do i need to donate in bitcoin when i can help them using fiat.here in my country there are confirmed case of Corona virus and many is under observation. So i can manage to help them by helping their family is my small little way.

Actually me and my office mates are now planning to make fundraising for the victims and incoming victim's