Would you agree to have a sensor injected under your skin ?

Implanting any tracking device in one's body would open a huge Pandora's Box of trouble.

Besides, I'm not too keen about extending my life beyond the first wave.
 

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win231 said:
I adopted 3 dogs that had chips from previous owners; some deceased.
A chip is not useful unless the information on it is current. Tags are usually current - & don't involve making a hole in the dog or a medical procedure.
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It's not difficult to update info on an animal's chips.

The idea is to have BOTH - chips and tags - on our pets.
 
Nathan said:
Our dear friend and founder of Save a Small Dog Rescue inc. chipped our Rusty that we adopted, he was calm even though he had been abused, before being abandoned by his last [so called] family.
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Although it's a couple of hours away from me, I will look into your friend's rescue when I'm ready for another dog - which will be soon, I think. ♥
 
Read sometime ago about a company placing chips in employees hands (on a volunteer basis) to be used for entering the building, accessing computers and buying snacks from the machines. Very disturbing that the people actually think it's just wonderful.

As for me, NO NO and NO!
 
My initial thought was no. Then I remembered an ex BIL. He had major heart problems. Even though he lived in a small community 100s of miles away, his device was monitored automatically by a major hospital. It warned him before an event even happened. Finally it warned but couldn’t help him anymore. He got a few extra years of life because of this implant.
 
Some diabetics have glucose monitors that have sensors under the skin.
My MIL had a smart pacemaker that her doctor could adjust over the phone somehow - no idea how that worked.

So this isn't as much of a leap as one might think.

Nevertheless I'd be reluctant to sign on for it.
 
Probably a good idea for pets. Not so good for humans.

For people with dementia who might wander off, there are tracking devices they can wear, similar to jewelry. They come in necklaces, bracelets, who knows what else? They work using GPS technology. So families, with the help of the company providing the service, can find their loved one without injecting anything into their body.
 
Sunny said:
Probably a good idea for pets. Not so good for humans.

For people with dementia who might wander off, there are tracking devices they can wear, similar to jewelry. They come in necklaces, bracelets, who knows what else? They work using GPS technology. So families, with the help of the company providing the service, can find their loved one without injecting anything into their body.
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LOL, Sunny. This reminds me of my mom during the last few years of her life. She lived alone and was suffering with early dementia. I wanted her to get one of those "I've fallen and I can't get up" devices.

She raised an eyebrow and said, "My dear daughter, that is not my kind of jewelry." (She was always beautifully put together with wardrobe and jewelry.)
I got the message. Eventually she moved to assisted living, but never would wear one of those devices.
 
StarSong said:
"My dear daughter, that is not my kind of jewelry."
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Understandable.

She’s not the only one who don’t like the look.

Also, it’s like wearing a sign on your chest that you‘re not capable.

Our electronic devices, mine’s an Apple Watch, help with some of these necessary emergency or tracking issues. I wouldn’t wear one with those plastic bands so replaced it with a metal band.
 
This idea was discussed several years ago, but for
bank cards, when you paid in a shop, all you had
to do was wave your hand or arm across the card
reader, and all was paid for, you might of course
have had to enter a pin-number into it.

Mike.
 
OTOH, for older people who live alone, the thought of possibly falling and getting a broken hip, or having a stroke, or something else awful like that, is not a pleasant one. It might be enough to just carry your cell phone around ALL the time, but what about when you go in the shower? And especially for the really older people, it's not always that easy to remember to pick it up and carry it around. Many of them have memory problems; they'd probably forget that too.

I have one of those First Alarm devices that I wear as a "necklace," but only when I am alone in the house. I wouldn't be caught dead with one outside, for all the reasons given above, and why would I need it outside anyway? The whole idea is to give the person a way to summon help when alone. It took me a few years of thinking before I finally broke down and got it, as I didn't want to be reminded of how "old" I was, but finally decided that's ridiculous. I've gotten used to it, and find it reassuring to know that I can always summon help if needed. (Fortunately, I've never needed it yet.)

But that's a far cry from having hardware implanted into my body. That is something I can't imagine doing.
 
hollydolly said:
The US military's storied DARPA agency is backing development of a sensor meant to be injected under the skin to monitor for COVID-19.

According to the agency — which has backed futuristic endeavors like laser weaponry, flying trucks and robot animals — the sensor continuously monitors vital signs and can flag an infection up to two days before symptoms appear.

The agency is exploring whether the sensor could be given members of the US military. When coupled with a receiver worn outside the body, it can set off an alert when something is wrong, the developers told Insider.

These sensors make it possible to detect, in 'real time' and over long periods of time, changes in the body's chemistry," Jared Adams, chief of communications for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), told Insider in a email.

The sensor is made up of two parts: a small strip of hydrogel injected under the skin. The strip is tiny, about a 10th of an inch in length. (Hydrogel is same type of material that is used in soft contact lenses.)

Then, outside the skin, there is the detector.

The gel is infused with chemicals. Early markers of infection, such as an abrupt change in oxygen levels, trigger a chemical reaction. The strip starts to glow with fluorescent light, which can be picked up by the detector.

https://www.businessinsider.com/military-sensor-skin-covid-darpa-19-2021-4?r=US&IR=T
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No.
 
The reason I don't want that inserted in my skin has to do with biblical prophecy that I won't get into here. I'm not taking nothin that could cause me separation from God. At least not knowingly.
 

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