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originally posted by: peter_kandra
People are willing to give their DNA away to the various genealogy companies AND pay for it. No need for a virus.
originally posted by: peter_kandra
People are willing to give their DNA away to the various genealogy companies AND pay for it. No need for a virus.
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
. . .
A primary motivation for the act was to curb illegal raves and free parties, especially the traveller festival circuit, which was steadily growing in the early 1990s, culminating in the 1992 Castlemorton Common Festival
. . .
Part IV, sections 54–59 which gave the police greater rights to take and retain intimate body samples.
en.wikipedia.org...
In May 1992 Avon and Somerset Police tried to end the annual Avon Free Festival, which had been held in the Bristol area around the May Bank Holiday for several years.[4] As a result, hundreds of new age travellers en route to the area for the expected festival were shunted into neighbouring counties by Avon and Somerset's Operation Nomad police manoeuvres, with West Mercia Police deciding to confine them to common land at Castlemorton
originally posted by: kingparrot
Just a wild hypothesis here but not so wild as to be beyond the realms of possibility, and I don’t for a second believe I’m the first person to think of this...
The millions upon millions of swabs being taken to test for covid-19 could possibly be the greatest DNA harvest of all time.
People lining up to give their names, phone numbers and a slice of their DNA freely.
I imagine a multitude of uses for such information, a law enforcement agencies wet dream, even insurance companies or advertising firms.
[...]
Never let a crisis go to waste as they say...
(Reuters) – Blackstone Group Inc said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine.
Ancestry.com has more than 3 million paying customers in about 30 countries, and earns more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Launched in 1996 as a family history website, it harnessed advances in DNA testing and mobile phone apps in the following two decades to expand its offerings.
The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of DNA damage related disorders. One embodiment is a method for the inhibition of side effects associated with chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic agents using chloroquine compounds. Another embodiment is a method for treatment and/or prevention of lethal or sub-lethal radiation toxicities associated with terrorist acts or war.