Implanted Alzheimer Chip: Protection or Violation?

A Florida adult-care facility is going ahead with plans to implant identity chips into patients with Alzheimer's disease who are in its care, despite protests that it is a form of branding.

Alzheimer's Community Care in West Palm Beach will implant a radio frequency identification chip into Alzheimer's patients with the consent of their families or the patients themselves if they are deemed competent. via ABC News

[Stella]

THIS IS GREAT. MY UNCLE WAS FOUND WONDERING AROUND AFTER MISSING FOR TWO DAYS ALMOST 35 miles from his home.

[Larry]

Wouldn't an I.D. bracelet be cheaper and less invasive?

[Elizabeth]

Mark of the Beast!

[Iria]

Larry wrote:

Wouldn't an I.D. bracelet be cheaper and less invasive?

It's not just to ID them, but so they can be located. I see what you're saying; if they're picked up say, by the cops, they can be IDed ... but they may not be picked up for some time ...

[T I Kirn]

Wait until they suggest this for all children 'for their protection against predators.' Total information awareness- it's not about public safety or Nat'l security... it's about maximum social control. They can already track virtually every cellphone via satellite. I'll bet the same bastards who brought us warrantless wiretaps and the 'Patriot'(sic) Act would love to get a chip inside each one of us.

I thought we already invented a non-invasive way of doing this: a Medic Alert bracelet. Contains the patient's name, condition, medical allergies; everything you need. This ID chip idea is just a test-bed for much darker applications.

[Dennis Nicholasville Ky]

Larry wrote:

Wouldn't an I.D. bracelet be cheaper and less invasive?

A bracelet can still be lost, removed or even become an entanglement for the mentally impaired. Not to revive the holocaust but what about a simple forearm tatoo. The persons initials & the last 4 digits of their SS# followed by the 2 initials of their state? IE: ABC1234OH. This would be entered in a computer data base with pertinent info. Also it would visable by the general public so if an alzeimer patient that may be wandering the streets or bus station or where ever.

[adapatc]

Why torture them more? Just keep them in a secure place with competent help.

[Matt from Akron]

I'm not in favor of chips or tatoos; a bracelet is OK by me. I tend to agree with people who say that implants in Alzheimer's patients is the first step down a dangerous path. Let's take the people who want to make tobacco illegal as an example. They know they can't do it outright, so they gradually start chipping away at the issue. In Ohio it just now became illegal to smoke in all public places. Before, it was the business owner's choice. It will evolve into legislation to prevent smoking in your car, and eventually your home. I am just using this as an example of how people with agendas operate; please don't lecture me about the dangers of smoking ;)

[Rene]

Look our Homeland SS is implanting them in every newborn, just like in animals.

Maybe before we make all these illegals automatic VOTERS, we should put an in plant in them..if they vote wrong, we can send them back..if they vote right, we can give them Social Security.

I have one in me now..so they know who's writing this crap.

[Matt from Akron]

Rene wrote:

Look our Homeland SS is implanting them in every newborn, just like in animals.
Maybe before we make all these illegals automatic VOTERS, we should put an in plant in them..if they vote wrong, we can send them back..if they vote right, we can give them Social Security.
I have one in me now..so they know who's writing this crap.

BOOOGA BOOGA BOOOOOOGA!!!!!

Babbler.

[Matt from Akron]

Here's a simple enough idea - how about a bracelet that, when the Alzheimer's patient leaves his/her room, sounds a buzzer at the nurse's desk? Kind of like the ankle bracelet some people have to wear when they're out on bond. The technology is there, and relatively cheap.

[T I Kirn]

Sorry, but a tatoo is a horrendous idea. Not only are they ugly, personally invasive things, but having one would deny the recipent burial in a Jewish cemetery, if I am not mistaken. I believe this is one of the considerations why they were used on people in Hitler's Endlosung (Final Solution) program. Also, nanotrackers or miniature bugs suspended in the ink are right around the bend, if not currently possible.

I still say an ID bracelet is the best, simplest, safest way to ensure patient safety and personal privacy.

[MMM]

People,read your Bible.Revelation 13:16-18.