[ny2ko]

Agreed with the other responses. The main reason there are lots of malaria deaths is often due to the lack of access to medication but for folks that do, it is similar to the flu stateside.

I was born and raised in Uganda and I'm shocked by this. Ebola was 100x more scary than malaria growing. At least way back before this recent vaccine. Get Ebola you are basically screwed, get malaria have a pill

To be fair on your part, as an 'expat' (I have a lot of qualms with this word, see https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals... as a starter), its harder as your immune system didn't grow up with it and so when you get it, its much worse. Quinine in my head is a hard core malaria drug for the tough cases (well atleast in was 10-20 years back). But for folks born and raised it really was like the flu. When I go back these days though, I'm in the same boat and actually start a dosage of anti malarials a week before I arrive

[Perceval]

Quinine is better as a prophylaxis rather than a treatment - i.e. for preventative or early-stage use, not once it's developed into a bad case. Low doses early (like in the tonic water of the late 1800s) could help prevent one from catching malaria while avoiding the nasty side effects of larger quinine doses needed for treating an advanced case.

[ny2ko]

Ah I see. I was only familiar with the latter advanced case usage

[Tostino]

That's interesting and I hadn't thought about the difference in terms and how they were used before, thanks for the article to chew on.

[janto]

Expat typically means emigrant, not immigrant.

[jquery]

Japanese working abroad are expats wherever they are.

[dmt0]

And Russians are immigrants. It doesn't go by race, it's Haves vs Have Nots - the only two classes that really exist.

[ny2ko]

It's definitely more nuanced for sure. Factors that can play into it can include but aren't limited to race, social standing and class, country that you are living into etc. I agree there's a have vs have nots at play at times but I don't think you can discount race at play either.

As an example, I always found it interesting that when I moved to the US, I found the words use suddenly disappears despite there being lots of people that could fit that mold. Has anyone experienced otherwise? I'd be curious to know

[spacemanmatt]

> it's Haves vs Have Nots - the only two classes

Then what do you call it when the Haves trend light in skin tone and the Have Nots trend dark in skin tone?

[dmt0]

I call it "fighting over bread crumbs when 0.01% take away the whole cake".

[lxxxvi]

3/4 of Europe are have-nots in the expat:immigrant debate...

[spacemanmatt]

I might be confused. Is your argument that 3/4 of Europe being Have Nots negates racial inequity?