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I think it’s bound to happen with how the world is. But a removable wristband seems better than tracking phones or even the rumored chip implants.

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crookshanked 6y ago
RE: Chip implant: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&_cid=P20-K9ADA0-20310-1 https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
m0xte 6y ago
They aren't removable AFAIK without destroying them, which probably calls home.
kgwxd 6y ago
They already track phones, and will keep doing it even with wristbands. Chip implants would hopefully be the start a revolution, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
- tellmelies 6y ago
  Did we all forget about Stingray? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
- beamatronic 6y ago
  Dopamine keeps you addicted to your phone, there's no way we are setting them aside any time soon.
djsumdog 6y ago
That's still not comforting. People can see if you're wearing your wristband or not; unlike a phone. This disease has leaders treating human beings like we're gears in a machine; or machines that can be turned on and off. >25million unemployed Americans who are burning through months of savings, with unpaid bills and rent and mortgage due, begs to differ. Humanity cannot be turned off an put in storage. Maybe in the EU there is relief and good social welfare systems. In a lot of the world, there isn't. And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Some of them might be sure, but some of them have also been in food bank lines for hours and are wondering how they are going to survive without an income for another month. We are suffering form two diseases. The first one is the virus killing people. The second one is ever measure without forethought leading to the suffering of the poor, increasing poverty and eroding our basic civil liberties. This disease has shown our leaders don't see us as people. They claim they care about our lives, but they only really care that people are alive.
- wbl 6y ago
  Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand have all had effective responses to the pandemic that haven't required lockdowns. It's just that the West doesnt believe in survival masks and didn't make them, and can't figure out how to find and isolate cases.
  - djsumdog 6y ago
    I know personally that's not true about NZ. My ex is immune compromised and they have "Levels" there (L0, L1, etc.) and she most likely won't be able to leave her place for another two months. Another kiwi I worked with sent me a video of walking through an empty Wellington. It's a small nation, 4 million people, plus ACC (health care) and solid unemployment for all, so it's much easier for them to cope. It's also easier for them to close the country, as it is a set of islands. The friend who did that walk said it was still Orwellian though.
    - wbl 6y ago
      They are about to have complete elimination of the virus.
- im3w1l 6y ago
  If worst comes to worst you can wear a fake wristband. But yeah.
- beamatronic 6y ago
  >> they only really care that people are alive. They care in the same way that farmers care about their sheep being alive...
- vzidex 6y ago
  > And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Except ... they are? From what I've seen the protestors are all for increased policed powers (Thin Blue Line type supporters), just not when it applies to _them_ - i.e. now.
ruffrey 6y ago
Is there a credible source for chip implants?
mmm_grayons 6y ago
What are these rumors of chip implants? I haven't heard of these beyond a few bio-hacker types using them. I think people would start shooting before they went for that, or at least I'd like to hope they would.
numpad0 6y ago
Anything ferrous, even tattoo inks are incompatible with MRI and other medical devices, so anything will have to be removable either way.

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crookshanked 6y ago

RE: Chip implant: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&_cid=P20-K9ADA0-20310-1 https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...

m0xte 6y ago

They aren't removable AFAIK without destroying them, which probably calls home.

kgwxd 6y ago

They already track phones, and will keep doing it even with wristbands. Chip implants would hopefully be the start a revolution, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.

tellmelies 6y ago
Did we all forget about Stingray? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
beamatronic 6y ago
Dopamine keeps you addicted to your phone, there's no way we are setting them aside any time soon.

djsumdog 6y ago

That's still not comforting. People can see if you're wearing your wristband or not; unlike a phone. This disease has leaders treating human beings like we're gears in a machine; or machines that can be turned on and off. >25million unemployed Americans who are burning through months of savings, with unpaid bills and rent and mortgage due, begs to differ. Humanity cannot be turned off an put in storage. Maybe in the EU there is relief and good social welfare systems. In a lot of the world, there isn't. And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Some of them might be sure, but some of them have also been in food bank lines for hours and are wondering how they are going to survive without an income for another month. We are suffering form two diseases. The first one is the virus killing people. The second one is ever measure without forethought leading to the suffering of the poor, increasing poverty and eroding our basic civil liberties. This disease has shown our leaders don't see us as people. They claim they care about our lives, but they only really care that people are alive.

wbl 6y ago
Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand have all had effective responses to the pandemic that haven't required lockdowns. It's just that the West doesnt believe in survival masks and didn't make them, and can't figure out how to find and isolate cases.
- djsumdog 6y ago
  I know personally that's not true about NZ. My ex is immune compromised and they have "Levels" there (L0, L1, etc.) and she most likely won't be able to leave her place for another two months. Another kiwi I worked with sent me a video of walking through an empty Wellington. It's a small nation, 4 million people, plus ACC (health care) and solid unemployment for all, so it's much easier for them to cope. It's also easier for them to close the country, as it is a set of islands. The friend who did that walk said it was still Orwellian though.
  - wbl 6y ago
    They are about to have complete elimination of the virus.
im3w1l 6y ago
If worst comes to worst you can wear a fake wristband. But yeah.
beamatronic 6y ago
>> they only really care that people are alive. They care in the same way that farmers care about their sheep being alive...
vzidex 6y ago
> And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Except ... they are? From what I've seen the protestors are all for increased policed powers (Thin Blue Line type supporters), just not when it applies to _them_ - i.e. now.

ruffrey 6y ago

Is there a credible source for chip implants?

mmm_grayons 6y ago

What are these rumors of chip implants? I haven't heard of these beyond a few bio-hacker types using them. I think people would start shooting before they went for that, or at least I'd like to hope they would.

numpad0 6y ago

Anything ferrous, even tattoo inks are incompatible with MRI and other medical devices, so anything will have to be removable either way.