Posted on 02/01/2021 10:01:57 AM PST by Onthebrink
The financial stakes for dominating the global biotech sector — the industry that's bringing us the COVID vaccine — are staggering, estimated to be worth up to $4 trillion a year. For perspective, that's more than the valuation of Amazon and Apple combined. Not surprisingly, many U.S. companies want a piece of that pie and recognize that control over the future of health care lies in collecting and then analyzing massive quantities of data. So, like China, they too are building up vast libraries of health information. There are undeniable benefits to this — potential cures and treatments, some already in use. But there's also a darker truth buried in the fine print: companies, including some of the ones that sell those popular genealogy test kits, could profit off of consumers and their private medical data.
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and I’m vying the stairway to Heaven.
So they can "improve" the Chinese Wuhan Flu.
On another subject, Brink, you CAN comment in post #1 when opening a thread, it's not forbidden.
This is why I NEVER fell for these DNA scams.
why does this matter?
Read the book by Frank Herbert - White Plague
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93448.The_White_Plague
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague
one of those books that will scare the living bejezuz outta you...
4 years ago, a sibling and one of her offspring offered to give me a free subscription Ancestry.com. and paid for my DNA test.
I discussed it and this DNA issue with my wife and adult offspring and even grand kids.
All of them said to go for it. The adults said that every time we had blood drawn, gave blood and were admitted to any
hospital for any procedures, my/our DNA was exposed to anybody willing to pay for a sample or the computerized version.
About 2 decades before this time, I was a librarian at the local Mormon Genealogy library and our county genealogy library. A cousin about my age got into our family history. We were both retired and after about 2 years
we had documented my mother’s and his mother’s (Sisters) genealogy back to early American settlers. I had my Dad’s genealogy back the early 1800’s.
That was before DNA and my cousin and later one of my siblings and one of his were in the genealogy search.
Basically, he and I had dead ended the paper searches on our ancestors. So we stopped searching.
About 5 years ago younger siblings of ours got into genealogy and had the DNA tests done. That opened doors back to the late 1400’s/early 1500’s.
So, I took up the offer from my sibling and one of her adult children and became a member of Ancestor.com in April 2017.
I now have over 29K ancestors via the old ways and DNA.
IWhy would you want a comprehensive DNA database? Organ donation for one. If someone needs a kidney, compare their DNA to the database to find potential donors. If a rich person needs a kidney, a suitable donor could be easily found. Then you compare other facts about them, and if they have a low social credit score you go get them and take the kidney.
This also applies to other organs. Heart, lungs, liver, eyes....
How would giving a coronavirus test to everyone in your country differ from gathering DNA samples for your database?
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