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Covid PCR tests check for specific viral RNA. They’re not sequencing human DNA.
by murkt 5y ago
Covid PCR tests check for specific viral RNA. They’re not sequencing human DNA.
- aww_dang 5y agoThe potential exists for DNA harvesting. Dismissing it as impossible seems inaccurate. >(CBS) — The largest biotech firm in the world wasted no time in offering to build and run COVID testing labs in Washington, contacting its governor right after the first major COVID outbreak in the U.S. occurred there. The Chinese company, the BGI Group, made the same offer to at least five other states, including New York and California, 60 Minutes has learned. This, along with other COVID testing offers by BGI, so worried Bill Evanina, then the country’s top counterintelligence officer, that he authorized a rare public warning. “Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests” declared the notice. Evanina believes the Chinese are trying to collect Americans’ DNA to win a race to control the world’s biodata. https://www.klfy.com/national/u-s-intelligence-officials-say-chinese-government-is-collecting-americans-dna/ https://www.klfy.com/national/u-s-intelligence-officials-say... https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bill-gates-china-23me-and-your-dna/ https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bill-gates-china-23m... >China's push to control Americans' health care future: U.S. officials say the Chinese government is trying to collect Americans' DNA, and they believe a recent offer from a Chinese company for assistance in COVID-19 testing was suspicious. Jon Wertheim reports. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biodata-dna-china-collection-60-minutes-2021-01-31/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biodata-dna-china-collection-60... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/china-bgi-california-testing/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/china-bgi...
- murkt 5y agoI haven’t opened your first link, second looks like pure conspiracy theories. Covid, China, Bill Gates, Epstein!!11 If you’re afraid of getting your DNA sequenced while doing PCR test, please read up on the process of test, equipment, materials and costs involved.
- aww_dang 5y agoThe source is CBS news. >"I haven't bothered to read, but I'm dismissing it as a conspiracy theory" I hope you can appreciate the problems with that reasoning. Yes, there are costs involved in data collection. If the data is valuable, organizations will foot those costs. We've seen this in the tech sphere. Why is it hard to imagine it in the health/biosecurity realm?
- hanselot 5y agoBecause he is paid to shill that view. Want proof? Go say the same thing somewhere else, on another public forum, you will get the same script (variations of it).
- murkt 5y agoI am paid for expressing my opinion? How very nice of someone. Please wire me my moneys, haven’t received them yet!
- hanselot 5y agoIts much cheaper to pay someone in the form of controversy, so they can virtue signal in public that they belong to tribe X, and that way they think it was their own idea. In your case, this would be, "Look at me, I have a unique perspective that just happens to align with what my tribe's think-tank has assigned for this topic". That is, if it is not just a pure monetary compensation, which I believe to be more likely, given how similar this shilling is to the shilling on 4chan.
- aww_dang 5y agoEven if this were true, the accusation only derails the conversation. We are attempting to discuss the topic. Dismissing the speaker out of hand because he sounds a certain way isn't helpful. Similarly, dismissing an article because it "sounds like conspiracy theory" isn't helpful. There's a bit irony there.