Tuesday, July 24, 2007

What A Shockingly Bad Idea!`

Indonesian lawmakers are considering the use of implanted microchips to monitor HIV carriers .
Lawmakers in Indonesia's Papua are mulling the selective use of chip implants in HIV carriers to monitor their behaviour in a bid to keep them from infecting others, a doctor said Tuesday.
John Manangsang, a doctor who is helping to prepare a new healthcare regulation bill for Papua's provincial parliament, said that unusual measures were needed to combat the virus.

"We in the government in Papua have to think hard on ways to provide protection to people from the spread of the disease," Manangsang told AFP.

"Some of the infected people experience a change of behaviour and can turn more aggressive and would not think twice of infecting others," he alleged, saying lawmakers were considering various sanctions for these people.

"Among one of the means being considered is the monitoring of those infected people who can pose a danger to others," Manangsang said.
I like that "turn more aggressive" as if being infected and diagnosed with HIV creates aggression. HIV and aggression are not linked (at least I don't know of a study that does so) and it seems to me that this doctor is manufacturing reasons to move forward with this shockingly bad idea.

What's next, implanting Christians in the mostly Muslim country?

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