The Federal government has been monitoring the feces of some 53 million Americans for a few years now. Described as a "grassroots effort" by academics researchers, the CDC is rapidly ramping up the program, expanding the National Wastewater Surveillance System from 400 to 650 collection sites -- a nearly 65% increase.
"Wastewater surveillance serves as an early warning system for the emergence of COVID-19 in a community,” according to Dr. Amy Kirby, director of the program. "With the expansion, “more communities will have the opportunity to use this tool to help guide their public health decision making."
It's all very fascinating. The ability to collect human DNA and viral RNA from wastewater never really occurred to me. By extension, the fact that this could be used by the State as another surveillance program, which according to Dr. Kirby is, "uniquely powerful," because it can monitor people without symptoms, also never occurred to me.
But there is a theme here. Think about all the testing sites that have cropped up the last two years. Think about how quickly people have simply accepted their role as lab rats for the government. Why do you think they want to collected genetic data and track people who are not actually sick?
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