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Indonesians Want To Microchip AIDS Patients

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-me-scan-you dept.

Lawmakers in Papua, Indonesia have thrown their support behind a bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in order to better monitor the disease. In addition, legislator John Manangsang said by implanting chips in "sexually aggressive" patients, authorities would be in a better position to identify, track and punish those who deliberately infect others. Health workers and rights activists sharply criticized the plan. It would make the dating scene a lot less scary if you could carry your AIDS chip reader into the club.

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  1. Fact Question about AIDS. by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have a few questions I wanted to "fact check" about AIDS.

    1. Most people who have AIDS are actually Heterosexual.
    2. AIDS is incurable, there is no vaccine, and treatment is generally painful and only delays the inevitable.
    3. No one who gets AIDS ever survives it. It has a 100% kill rate.
    4. While there are homosexual people who have AIDS, Homosexuality and AIDS are unrelated. However, religious groups attempt to connect AIDS to Homosexuality, when there is none.
    5. If AIDS were transferable through some other common method, such as water, or mosquitoes, and a large majority of the population, if not the entire population of the Human species, we would be extinct within a matter of a few decades.