Posted on 07/18/2007 10:49:01 AM PDT by TheTruthAintPretty
Yeah — in the same way that your SSN was never meant to be a way to track you, either!
I am thinking about a specially modified version for my daughter. It stays inert until some boy comes close to her and then the alarm will beep and I will be notified.
I don’t have that problem yet, to her dismay I just follow her around for now.
Bracelets and anklets can be removed, also getting the data off them is slower. RFIDs have a lot of advantages that are perfectly legitimate for voluntary use. If you don’t want them fine, but this paranoid BS from the Luddite crowd is pathetic and disgusting.
No sometimes the problem is the patient, or random passers by. When I was about 14 I accidentally helped an Alzheimer’s patient “break out”. I didn’t know it was an old folks home or anything, I walked by on the way to the mall and this old lady in this yard/ patio asked for my help opening the gate because it was hard to access from the inside. I did, she asked to walk with me, 5 minutes later I realized the situation wasn’t what I thought it was (she was pretty loopy) got us turned around and back to the place where relieved workers spotted us and thanked me for returning her. Feces happens, it’s a crazy a world.
Tyrants and governments could care less. It's all about TOTAL control.
The difference is free will though for for someone with Alzheimer's or retardation issues that render them a risk to themselves that’s another story.
Anything is open to abuse though.
As an RN, I see this as a negligence issue. If there was a risk of a door being opened that shouldn’t have, better safe guards should have been in place. Yes, stuff happens. That’s why there are risk management departments. That doesn’t warrant across the board chipping.
As a person who realizes feces happens I see it as feces that happened. I don’t think anybody was negligent, the gate was hard to open from the inside, which seemed to be enough to stop the old lady. Where the problem came in was it was a small operation that looked like a regular house, and somebody wasn’t looking for 10 seconds, people gotta pee. No old folks home that can be mistaken for a normal house with old people has a risk management department. And nobody is saying anything about across the board chipping, that’s Luddite hyperbole, we’re just talking about how it CAN be useful SOMETIMES for SOME PATIENTS.
how about chips for sex offenders?
Fences, my friend, they're called fences. The Alzheimer's home around the corner from me has the whole place attractively fenced off and no one wanders off.
Your children are blessed with a good parent.
Yeah. And how you need it for everything to identify yourself. Now, all ‘those’ have it; yet, we were told to keep it secure.
A ‘perfect response’ BTTT.
What about it is luddite? There’s a world of difference between a bunch of people who are frightened they might lose their jobs to mechanical weaving machines and others who don’t want to be tracked. In the case of the former, the issue was productivity and in the long run the productivity provided by the machines was a net benefit to society. The latter is about privacy, not productivity. Your analogy is false. But your point is taken, you think this is all a fuss about nothing. We shall see.
The part that’s Luddite is that you’re immediately jumping to conclusions which are countered in the article. It’s not necessarily some form of tracking of people. In the case of medical RFIDs it’s about safety, if I had a medical condition where I should get a medic alert bracelet I would get a RFID just for the extra layer of protection.
I KNOW it’s a big fuss about nothing, because I’ve seen this same Luddite fuss made over and over and over and every single time the Luddites are WRONG. I already have seen, you’re crowd is wrong every single time.
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