لكن كريس قال في خطابه أنه لم يفكّر أن ما فعله كان مذهلاً، بسبب أنه قام بحساب عدد السنوات التي أضافها لهؤلاء الناس ، لتمديد حياتهم ، كانت نفسها التي كنت ستحققها أنت إذا تبرّعت ب5,000 دولار إلى"مؤسسة ضد الملاريا" .
But Chris went on to say that he didn't think that what he'd done was all that amazing, because he calculated that the number of life-years that he had added to people, the extension of life, was about the same that you could achieve if you gave 5,000 dollars to the Against Malaria Foundation.