"Google co-founder Sergey Brin has given $126.6 million worth of Alphabet stock to the Sergey Brin Family Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Forbes reports."
"....both Brin’s mother and an aunt were diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and Brin himself carries the Parkinson’s-related mutation of the LRRK2 gene."
Bill gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others should follow the same.
Gates reportedly has PD. Google it
I believe Brin is "Leftist". People donate their money on things that are close to their heart. No need to bring politics into this. I guess I missed Fox news $127 million dollar donation.
The statistics speak for themselves:
"Democrats and Independents both had many zero-to-very-light givers (less than $100 for the year), and modest numbers of heavier givers. Republicans, in comparison, had comparatively few skinflints, and numerous serious donors—31 percent sharing at least $1,000 with charity, versus 17 percent among Democrats, and 20 percent among Independents."
philanthropyroundtable.org/...
Sure, if you include the 1,600,000,000 donation recently given to right-wing groups, plus similar donations from Koch and Adelson.
The pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall into place with this one.
yeah? what pieces?
I could go and pull quotes off the internet to say different, but I am stopping here. My point is why even bring politics into this? Let's talk about things that help people with PD. I am just thankful Brin, MJF and others are using their status and money to help us out.
No, Zuckerberg is no leftist. Quite the contrary.
So you never heard of the 'Zuck Bucks' scandal of the 2020 election? He personally donated 400 ... 400 ... 400... MILLION dollars of which 90% when to support democrat precincts
Why bring Black into this? This is very messy!
Enjoyed yours Posts in the past, right now your behavior is a mess.
I only tell the truth... and often times people don't want to hear the truth
The truth may be that in this thread you have, at times, used the word truth synonymously with opinion - a bit like Amber Heard does with pledge and donate. (That's my opinion anyway.) Bear in mind when you read this that often times people don't want to hear the truth (or even an opinion).
It is also my opinion that the following will not generate one extra cent of donations to the PD cause. Imagine being stood on a street corner shaking a tin at passers by and:
* Being openly jealous and resentful of the focus given to other chronic conditions.
* Ranting about politics.
* Pigeon-holing people for not donating what you consider to be enough.
And that is the truth. (Again, in my opinion.)
I'm not buying that lame excuse. All you are doing is showing ignorance.
As I was driving to work in Manchester, England, not half an hour ago, I was thinking how it seems a significant minority of US citizens go out of their way to find reasons to hate instead of love, or at least live and let-be. Got into work and on checking the HU forum I found this nugget. HAPPY FRIDAY 🤪
It is really sad, and upsetting to me, personally, to see the political hatred spewing out, in the USA, today! Our country is sharply divided, and, it looks like, it is incurable, sorta like PD, in an odd way! Just my opinion, and my opinion means nothing, to most people!
We all know that the media has always preferred the ranting of some wound-up fruitcake over a nuanced opinion because the former generates soundbites and headlines, and that translates to cash. All we should expect is a never ending cycle of 'truths' voiced by the hard of thinking who are often stoked up by one or the other side of the political spectrum, who in turn stoke up fellow half-wits, and thus the $$$ cycle rolls on. I imagine you are not really a deeply divided nation if you scratch beneath the surface and that the vast majority of people (like everywhere) are quite happy to have their differences but muddle on together regardless - the media can never entertain that thought though, and I have as much idea about how to cure that as I have how to cure PD.
Looks like politics has permeated one of my daily routines. Let the haters hate. I'm too busy trying to heal. Anybody get all shaky after reading this? Or is my C/L kicking in?
"everything is politics"
let me just ask you something since we are all suffering from this damn dirty evil disease...have you ever thought about... WHY???
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HIV had a vocal ... but organized sliver of people in the USA -- but still got 3 BILLION dollars in funding for research which lead to treatment and a 'cure' of sorts...
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Did you know that medicare spends $25 BILLION dollars yearly for various services and treatments to take care of us?
But... NIH spends only 250 (paltry) million yearly for ... research
BOTTOM LINE: For every $250 spent on treatment for PD...
ONLY ONLY ONLY
$1 is spent on... research
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Did you know that local, state and federal governments spend at least 116 BILLION dollars each ... year... for ILLEGAL ALIENS???
thecentersquare.com/nationa...
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If that ain't "political" ... What is?
If you like suffering... vote democrat
"If that ain't "political" ... What is?"
It's RADICAL LEFTISTS' politics. America used to be the center of capitalism, not any more. . .
So let's pray all the rich get PD so for sure they will donate, no matter left or right.
well i'm sure you were joking on the first part... but furrr shurr the gov't and private people are NOT donating ENOUGH MONEY to beat PD
I don't see the point of classifying peoples attitudes and beliefs, either political, religious or other, into left-wing or right-wing. Most people are somewhere in between. There are very few hard dividing lines in life. Autism is a spectrum for instance. PD is different for everyone and seems to be an umbrella term used to refer to a collection of many related groups of causes and symptoms. Viewing life through a binary lens isn't helpful to our goal of beating Parkinsons. There probably won't be one "cure for PD". There will be many, for all of the different PDs we are experiencing. I lean left, for lack of a better term, but I don't care much about who funds the eventual successful treatment for my PD, as long as it isn't at someone else's expense. Let's keep our eyes on the prizes.
The key to fighting Parkinson’s is a Autophagy
Brain Food for Parkinson's Patients (from Michael Fox site)
Impact of Parkinson's
Symptoms with LRRK2 and GBA mutations
