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So, there’s a lot of discourse about whether people should donate to Notre Dame fundraisers or not.

Personally, I would never tell anyone what to, or not to, give money to, but I wanted to put out some facts which might help people make their decision.

The biggest one is The Catholic Church does not own Notre Dame.

You heard that right.

Notre Dame does not, in any way, legally “belong” to the church. Like many French medieval churches, Notre Dame belongs to the people of France. Who graciously permit the Catholic church to use it as a place of worship.

The financial responsibility for repairing and restoring the church thus falls to the government of France. Not the church. The state. The building was not insured, which is fairly common for government-owned buildings. The Federal government tends to self-insure a lot too. Also, no insurer will cover it.

The construction companies working on the restoration may be found responsible, but their liability insurance will be a drop in the water.

So.

If not enough money is donated, then the balance of the cost will come out of the French treasury.

The tl;dr - the people actually on hook for repairing Notre Dame, ultimately, are the French taxpayers. If you donate to help repair Notre Dame, you’re really donating to arts and culture and history funding in France in general.

Make your decision based off of that. The fact is, the church will be rebuilt regardless of how much money comes in in donations, but other parts of the French arts budget may suffer as a result.

Choose based off of your personal priorities. And don’t let anyone on the internet guilt trip you one way or the other.

However if you do decide to donate, please, please send your money to the Friends of Notre Dame. This is the organization that pays for most of Notre Dame’s repair budget. They are registered as a 501c3 in the United States.

Do not donate to random GoFundMes. Some of them will be scams.

If you would rather donate to the black congregations in Louisiana, who admittedly probably do need the money more, this GoFundMe appears to be legitimate and is hosted by a religious non-profit. They’re about 60% from their goal.

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Workin a bit of kassandra while on break….why are you so perfect. 

                     you’ve failed, your highness. 

my stardew: fall 🍁🍃🍂🌿

Tooth Infection: Can literally kill you and wreck your overall physical health. United States: Dentistry is a frivolous cosmetic luxury which we should bar the poor from having. To even have access to a dentist should be a sign of affluence akin to some forms of plastic surgery. How else will we laugh at the poor and their disgusting toothless mouths which showcase how inferior and uneducated they really are in comparison to our pearly-smiled perfection? 

Like honestly?! I’m a nurse on a cardiac surgery unit. Do you have any idea how many patients I see every year have to go through open heart surgery to get a valve replacement because they got a tooth infection that caused endocarditis and vegetation on the heart valves? It’s appalling that people have to go through such a traumatic surgery when it could have been prevented by routine dental care.

I also once had a patient lose his fucking EYE because a tooth infection migrated into his sinuses and then his eye. And of course he had shit insurance so he didn’t get seen until it was too far gone for us to be able to save his eye. We did save his life but he was left without an eye and I can only imagine how much debt for that hospital bill.

The US healthcare system is so fucking broken.

Dentistry was the first form of medicine that humanity invented. That’s how seriously bad dental health can ruin someone’s health.

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