Posted on 11/07/2012 9:12:07 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) — About 450 southwestern Pennsylvania school students will be wearing electronic devices that will track how often they come in contact with one another at school — and on their day off during Election Day — to help researchers track how the flu may be spread among them.
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” wearing electronic devices that will track how often they come in contact with one another at school —and on their day off during Election Day —to help researchers track how the flu may be spread among them.”
Yeah, sure. That’s the ticket.
“If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear, Comrade.”
Flu, yeah, uh huh, yep, we’re buying it! NOT!
This news is surprising to me considering how conservative the area is. I had two opportunities to sue that school system and make millions, based on past legal cases, but preferred not to destroy people’s lives. Instead, I talked to them and educated them. This makes me sorry I didn’t sue and take them to the cleaners.
The Borg Collective needs good little drones.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
—C. S. Lewis
A little paranoia goes a long way around here.
Student prank.
Every kid make physical contact with the school’s ‘resource officer’ at least 5 times during the day.
What exactly are these researchers hoping to discover? That the flu is spread through contact? We already know that. At first blush, it sounds more like the real research is in testing these tracking devices. ;-)
The possibilitites for lulz boggle the mind...
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