Posted on 05/07/2020 7:33:32 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Let the government-pressed coronavirus-tied blood collections of citizens begin.
And begin they have.
They have in Georgia at least, where the state’s Department of Public Health recently announced, in cooperation with both Fulton County and Dekalb counties’ Boards of Health, that “to learn more about the spread of COVID-19,” an “investigation” has commenced — and it’s an “investigation” that’s leading government officials to make random stops at randomly selected residences and ask random citizens for, get this, their blood.
Citizens’ DNA in the hands of unelected government officials. Hmm, what could go wrong there?
Specifically, Georgia’s health wonks want to know “the percentage of people in the community who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19,” a statement on the state’s Department of Public Health webpage reads.
And to get that data, the government needs citizens’ blood. Dontcha know.
Oh, it’s completely voluntary.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
They can have a stool sample
“DNA please”
“DNA please”
Ideally, voluntary cooperation will run in the neighborhood of 5% and the program will be quietly dropped.
So were face masks.
For about a week or two.
Which should be able to confirm the presence of the virus and anti-bodies.
I say, offer the canvassers that or nothing.
fulton and dekalb counties are city of Atlanta area and may be Dem controlled.
No I am not a nurse and I do not decontaminate myself in any way before entering your home, but I am a professional government worker and I am here to help.
As long as it’s strictly optional, they need to be doing this to get good random statistical samples of who has already had the Beer Flu. This will finally start to show the real death rate, which is going to be far lower than the panic-monger numbers like 3% put out based on the highly biased “cases” number as the denominator. The real death rate is deaths / infections, and they still don’t really know the real infection rate since most people get no or mild symptoms from the Beer Flu and may not even realize they had it or even had a cold.
I understand the concerns we all have about government intrusion into out lives and the potential loss of freedoms.
Mistrust of government is certainly warranted.
If this is strictly a voluntary process, it makes sense. The goal would be to establish actual morbidity rates and risk in the general population rather than in selective biased samples of sick people.
As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw than I do about loss of freedoms because of biased samples making the disease seem more dangerous than it is. That has been the cause of government over regulation so far.
I understand the concerns we all have about government intrusion into out lives and the potential loss of freedoms.
Mistrust of government is certainly warranted.
If this is strictly a voluntary process, it makes sense. The goal would be to establish actual morbidity rates and risk in the general population rather than in selective biased samples of sick people.
As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw than I do about loss of freedoms because of biased samples making the disease seem more dangerous than it is. That has been the cause of government over regulation so far.
You can go get a test for free on Saturday here in NM, no thank you.
“Sample”? Give them the entire bag!
"...making random stops at randomly selected residences to ask random citizens" for a sample is about as random as it can get. The operative word is "ask."
Of course, asking "citizens" skews it against illegals, but I suppose that'd the author's cute way of saying "whoever answers the door."
...people’s homes many of whom are filthy pig sties ...
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We spent the last 6 weeks looking for a new home. We looked at mostly unoccupied houses, although for a few, the place was occupied w/the owners absent for the showing. MOST places were spic & span, although that does sometimes highlight deferred or haphazard maintenance.
Some places, though...no sense of awareness about how the presence of strewn personal possessions, odors,lack of cleaning of bathrooms and ovens and washers and refrigerators impacts a buyer’s approval/disapproval and their ultimate decision.
We actually paid 20% than we had originally planned on for a clean, well-maintained property without tons of randomly collected *good stuff* stuffed into every nook and cranny. A few actually thought ‘sold with all furnishings’ was an incentive, when all we could think about was now we were expected to haul out someone else’s years of packrattery.
We started to triage *stuff* a couple years before listing our old place. More to go, but seeing what it actually looks like incentivizes the clean-out.
If that is how people present their homes for sale, it’s sobering to wonder what did it look like before they ‘straightened up’?
And all the information will be saved on a BIG Government DOUBLE SECURE computer. FOREVER SAFE!!!
Yeah, right.
Now, all that data would be worth a lot of money, do you think your fat slob of a governor (ILLINOIS) of a bankrupt state or a midget mayor (Chicago) of a big broken-down city, or a zillion other scheming politicians would sell your data?
NO, they would give it away for a fun weekend in Vegas and the promise of some votes.
Also, they would PAY MS GOOG AMZ to build the BIG Government DOUBLE SECURE FOREVER SAFE computer. And like the Canadian gun computer, BIllions$$$, never worked and shit caned.
You will be receiving spam the same day as the contact tracer/DNA tester sees you, but it will be years before any actual research if any is completed.
By the way, where is the vaccine for the common cold? It is also a coronavirus????????
Nice idea, but the antibody tests are not completely reliable. OTOH, they may develop one of the most comprehensive databases ever of people who have had colds caused by coronaviruses.
As for worries about the government collecting DNA... if the government wants that, they only have to keep the paperwork you sent them in the mail, like your physical tax returns. Your DNA can be extracted from saliva, cells, hair... you’re leaving DNA behind everywhere you go.
“”As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw “”
Boy - I absolutely do not/cannot understand this mentality. As long as it’s voluntary? That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard today and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things here so far and the day is only half over! I’m sure that there were Jews in the ghettos all over Europe who said, “they told me it was voluntary - we don’t have anything to be afraid of.” They PROMISED!
People are showing that they only need to say OK and the enemy takes over without a shot!
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