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Dave_5k said:
Well, work is ongoing on a passive RFID tag shrink down to ~22 microns, which I believe would be small enough to be suspended in liquid for an injection. But that is still under research, not commercially available. At best get you might get ~10 foot detection range. Although with multiple such chips in an array, passive RFID might be detectable out to 50 feet or so.

Researchers Develop Microscopic RFID Chip to Embed in Human Cells

The smallest chip the team has developed so far measures 22 microns (about a fifth the thickness of a human hair), which they plan to test reading with a specialized RFID interrogator.
www.rfidjournal.com www.rfidjournal.com
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That's almost enough to get me to sign up to team-paranoia!
 
Not really covidiots as the precipitating event was in Feb before we were aware of the nature of the disease, but apparently one attendee with covid at a biotech (of all things) conference in Boston resulted in over 245,000 cases across this country and others. Really. 245,000. Verified by genetic fingerprinting.

Wear masks!

www.cnn.com

Boston biotech conference led to 245,000 Covid-19 cases across US, genetic fingerprinting shows | CNN

A biotech conference in Boston last February that's already been flagged as a Covid-19 superspreading event led to at least 245,000 other cases across the US and Europe, a new genetic fingerprinting study shows.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
 
Funny that every fucking moron screaming about tracking chips in a vaccine is doing so in a device they never leave home without, that actually tracks them to within 3 feet, and listens to everything they say, and records everything they post or view on that device. This is an astonishing level of utter stupidity.
 
MtnMan said:
Funny that every fucking moron screaming about tracking chips in a vaccine is doing so in a device they never leave home without, that actually tracks them to within 3 feet, and listens to everything they say, and records everything they post or view on that device. This is an astonishing level of utter stupidity.
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It's really out there, isn't it?
 
MtnMan said:
Terrifying, isn't it?
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In a way, for sure. Not the fact that devices are like that, but the fact that people are so willing to give up their privacy, especially the older population that was always super concerned about government spying. Corporate spying, I'm in!
 
DAPUNISHER said:
Add these selfish a-holes to the list. "the wife admitted the man had tested positive for coronavirus"

https://onemileatatime.com/passenger-coronavirus-dies-united-flight/
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I read about that. Seems like an odd story all in all, I would have thought that someone near death would unlikely be able to manage to do all the things that are involved in getting to an airport to end up dying on a flight, or what circumstances encourage their partner to not say anything. I wondered if there was a domestic abuse angle in there.
 
From that link:

He was one of the more upbeat and forgiving photographers I spoke to. But even he was shocked by what he’d seen. At plenty of weddings, he said, guests in their eighties and nineties walk around maskless. “I saw a guy with an oxygen machine. He was carrying around an oxygen machine to breathe, but he didn’t have a mask on.”

The photographer who got sick after shooting the COVID-positive groom said her experiences throughout the pandemic have left her a little depressed. She recalled one conversation from that wedding, before she left the reception. “I have children,” she told a bridesmaid. “What if my children die?” The bridesmaid responded, “I understand, but this is her wedding day.”


wtf
 
So this was in the paper near where I live. This type of selfishness is everywhere.

"4 firefighters exposed to COVID-19"

"DAILEY — Four front-line workers — and possibly two good samaritans — were exposed to COVID-19 after an automobile accident in Randolph County this week, officials said.

Firefighters from the Tygarts Valley Fire Company responded to a single-vehicle accident call Tuesday evening just north of Mountain View Equipment on Route 219 in Valley Bend. Once the crew arrived, they found a 2019 Jeep Cherokee Latitude on its top with a female driver inside, officials said.

Four Tygarts Valley Fire Company members worked to remove the unidentified driver from the vehicle and, after securing the woman, later learned that she had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 and was supposed to be under quarantine.

“Four of our guys actually broke the glass out in the back of the vehicle and had to get in and help get her out,” Tygarts Valley Fire Company Chief Bob Elbon told The Inter-Mountain Wednesday. “Those four guys are now going to have to have to be quarantined for five days and then get re-tested. I was on scene with some other members of our department directing traffic. Thankfully we weren’t close enough to her to be exposed.”

Elbon said the accident victim was returning home from a day of skiing at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Two civilians who were on the scene before the fire department arrived attempted to help the victim get out of the vehicle, he noted.

“There was a man and a woman at the accident who stopped to help and we didn’t get their names before they left,” said Elbon. “The woman actually got inside of the vehicle with the victim. So we need to find out who they are so they can get tested.”

Elbon said the two good samaritans could contact the Randolph-Elkins Health Department once they learn of their exposure.

He also said his department is going to be a little short-handed as the four exposed firemen were among the most active within the department.

“We’re going to have to ask for some aid from some of the other departments while these guys are off,” he said. “If there are accidents to the north, we may have to call on Beverly. If it’s to the south it will possibly be Huttonsville or Mill Creek. If it’s a structure fire we may be asking for all of them.”"
 
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balloonshark said:
So this was in the paper near where I live. This type of selfishness is everywhere.

"4 firefighters exposed to COVID-19"

"DAILEY — Four front-line workers — and possibly two good samaritans — were exposed to COVID-19 after an automobile accident in Randolph County this week, officials said.

Firefighters from the Tygarts Valley Fire Company responded to a single-vehicle accident call Tuesday evening just north of Mountain View Equipment on Route 219 in Valley Bend. Once the crew arrived, they found a 2019 Jeep Cherokee Latitude on its top with a female driver inside, officials said.

Four Tygarts Valley Fire Company members worked to remove the unidentified driver from the vehicle and, after securing the woman, later learned that she had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 and was supposed to be under quarantine.

“Four of our guys actually broke the glass out in the back of the vehicle and had to get in and help get her out,” Tygarts Valley Fire Company Chief Bob Elbon told The Inter-Mountain Wednesday. “Those four guys are now going to have to have to be quarantined for five days and then get re-tested. I was on scene with some other members of our department directing traffic. Thankfully we weren’t close enough to her to be exposed.”

Elbon said the accident victim was returning home from a day of skiing at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Two civilians who were on the scene before the fire department arrived attempted to help the victim get out of the vehicle, he noted.

“There was a man and a woman at the accident who stopped to help and we didn’t get their names before they left,” said Elbon. “The woman actually got inside of the vehicle with the victim. So we need to find out who they are so they can get tested.”

Elbon said the two good samaritans could contact the Randolph-Elkins Health Department once they learn of their exposure.

He also said his department is going to be a little short-handed as the four exposed firemen were among the most active within the department.

“We’re going to have to ask for some aid from some of the other departments while these guys are off,” he said. “If there are accidents to the north, we may have to call on Beverly. If it’s to the south it will possibly be Huttonsville or Mill Creek. If it’s a structure fire we may be asking for all of them.”"
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But her freedumbs.
 
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Thomas was antimask,Thomas is now sick with covid in the hospital, don't be like Thomas
 
balloonshark said:
So this was in the paper near where I live. This type of selfishness is everywhere.

"4 firefighters exposed to COVID-19"

"DAILEY — Four front-line workers — and possibly two good samaritans — were exposed to COVID-19 after an automobile accident in Randolph County this week, officials said.

Firefighters from the Tygarts Valley Fire Company responded to a single-vehicle accident call Tuesday evening just north of Mountain View Equipment on Route 219 in Valley Bend. Once the crew arrived, they found a 2019 Jeep Cherokee Latitude on its top with a female driver inside, officials said.

Four Tygarts Valley Fire Company members worked to remove the unidentified driver from the vehicle and, after securing the woman, later learned that she had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 and was supposed to be under quarantine.

“Four of our guys actually broke the glass out in the back of the vehicle and had to get in and help get her out,” Tygarts Valley Fire Company Chief Bob Elbon told The Inter-Mountain Wednesday. “Those four guys are now going to have to have to be quarantined for five days and then get re-tested. I was on scene with some other members of our department directing traffic. Thankfully we weren’t close enough to her to be exposed.”

Elbon said the accident victim was returning home from a day of skiing at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Two civilians who were on the scene before the fire department arrived attempted to help the victim get out of the vehicle, he noted.

“There was a man and a woman at the accident who stopped to help and we didn’t get their names before they left,” said Elbon. “The woman actually got inside of the vehicle with the victim. So we need to find out who they are so they can get tested.”

Elbon said the two good samaritans could contact the Randolph-Elkins Health Department once they learn of their exposure.

He also said his department is going to be a little short-handed as the four exposed firemen were among the most active within the department.

“We’re going to have to ask for some aid from some of the other departments while these guys are off,” he said. “If there are accidents to the north, we may have to call on Beverly. If it’s to the south it will possibly be Huttonsville or Mill Creek. If it’s a structure fire we may be asking for all of them.”"
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My oldest grandson is a professional firefighter/EMT, the youngest is a volunteer firefighter, still in high school. Both have been quarantined and tested multiple time for possible exposures. Both have tested negative multiple times, and quarantine periods lapsed. Neither possible exposure because of some stupid ass like this bitch.

Departments have had to do some manpower juggling to cover for those out for the quarantine period. The city department has even developed contingency plans to supplement their ranks by utilizing county department firefighters on part time basis to meet staffing needs. They haven't had to do this.... yet.
 
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