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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

And another conspiracy “theory” becomes reality. Any others out there?

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

When I went back to school to finish my BSN I had to take a genetics course. Having to do research for papers on ethical issues, I came across quite a bit of information regarding the 23 and me and other online “genetic testing” centers. I also learned that when your baby is born and they get that initial blood work done for genetic screening, those blood cards are stored in the state that the child is born in and they are never destroyed; you have to ask for them to be destroyed. There was a case in Texas where a bunch of those cards were sold to the military.

https://www.wadsworth.org/programs/newborn/screening

https://www.darkdaily.com/2010/03/05/parents-outraged-at-warehousing-of-dna-saved-from-newborn-baby-screening-programs-and-used-for-clinical-laboratory-testing/

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Yes, that's right. I talk about that in my essays. People don't realize what they are giving away. But of course because it is on Fox News, millions of people will not listen, or will discard it as disinformation when it is there, easily documented, for all to see. Very frustrating.

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Jul 26, 2022Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

It was such an eye opener for me at the time. Common sense told me never to consider sending in my DNA to any company, but the baby cards were a big surprise. Any mention of Fox news and one is automatically dismissed. I try to use sources that are based directly from the literature, but even that doesn't seem to matter to people who are so deeply rooted.

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Exactly. I certainly don't depend on Fox News and go to sources. I would be hard pressed to get anyone who listens to MSM to read either of these essays. Even though it is researched and based on facts.

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Jul 27, 2022·edited Jul 27, 2022

I was recently forced to wear a mask and answer 20 questions to visit my daughter in the hospital. Of course, one of the questions is have you tested positive for covid in the last 10 days. I answered I have never tested positive for covid. The real answer is that I have never been tested period, and with any luck, I never will. I know perfectly healthy people who routinely test for no good reason. This, to me, borders on insanity; certainly psychologically impaired. Now we see this is another way for the unscrupulous to harvest your DNA for all kinds of nefarious reasons. It seems as if the whole world has lost the plot, and the naive are assisting. I'm glad I'm old.

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Yup smh

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"The" media? There are no such things. You are a media now.

(Off-topic:

I recently heard a man said "we were little mediums at large." Even the radio host could not control himself!)

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https://fortune.com/2018/07/25/glaxosmithkline-23andme-gsk/

This was an article from 2018 from Fortune

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