CBS News 60 Minutes: Pentagon scientists reveal a subdermal sensor that senses COVID-19 in your body BEFORE you show symptoms and a filter that extracts the virus from blood
So the Daily Mail is reporting on conversations Pentagon officials had with a team from 60 Minutes (the actual source from 60 Minutes also below). Is this real life? Are we being punk'd? Are they just trolling the already large number of paranoid people? Come on man... This would be better if it were 4/1.
At least the Pentagon said they're not looking to track people's movements with these microchips. They're known for being men & women of their word who would never violate the rights of American citizens.
Edit: Upon reading the actual piece from 60 Minutes, the official explicitly says it's not a microchip (quotes clipped below)... But it is a subdermal sensor... So DailyMail does seem to be a clickbaity headline, but this is still weird as hell.
What are everyone else's thoughts?
- Scientists at the Pentagon's secretive unit are researching viruses and developing pandemic cures
- They work at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other Pentagon laboratories
- DARPA's teams saw COVID-19 infected 1,271 onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt as the virus spread unchecked
- In response they have developed a microchip to detect asymptomatic COVID in a bid to prevent an outbreak
- The chip is inserted below skin and triggers a sensor if COVID infects the body
- DARPA have also created a filter which can remove COVID virus from the blood when attached to dialysis
- They are working on a vaccine that would work against all coronaviruses, even ones not yet identified
- The team also successfully manufactured antibodies against Spanish Flu
Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection, and a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine.
The team at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been working for years on preventing and ending pandemics.
They assess the issues and come up with ingenious solutions, which at times appear more from a science fiction novel than a working laboratory.
One of their recent inventions, they told 60 Minutes on Sunday night, was a microchip which detects COVID infection in an individual before it can become an outbreak.
The microchip is sure to spark worries among some about a government agency implanting a microchip in a citizen.
Officials who spoke to the 60 Minutes team said the Pentagon isn't looking to track your every move.
A more detailed explanation was not given.
Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician leading DARPA's response to the pandemic, showed the 60 Minutes team a tissue-like gel, engineered to continuously test your blood.
And here's the actual article from 60 Minutes confirming:
Military programs aiming to end pandemics forever
Dr. Matt Hepburn: What we don't do -- we don't say, "Okay, here's our problem. Here's your blank check. Come back to us in three to five years, we'll see how you do.
Bill Whitaker: You're on them?
Dr. Matt Hepburn: Active program management is what we call it. Okay? (LAUGH)
Dr. Hepburn showed us a few current projects, some sound like they're from an episode of "Star Trek." Consider a ship like the USS Theodore Roosevelt -- hobbled last year when 1,271 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. What if everyone on board had their health monitored with this subdermal implant, now in late-stage testing. It's not some dreaded government microchip to track your every move, but a tissue-like gel engineered to continuously test your blood.
Dr. Matt Hepburn: It's a sensor.
Bill Whitaker: This tiny green thing in there?
Dr. Matt Hepburn: That tiny green thing in there, you put it underneath your skin and what that tells you is that there are chemical reactions going on inside the body and that signal means you are going to have symptoms tomorrow.
Bill Whitaker: Wow. There's an-- an actual transmitter in that--
Dr. Matt Hepburn: Yeah. It's like a "check engine" light.
Bill Whitaker: Check this sailor out before he infects other people?
Dr. Matt Hepburn: That's right.
Sailors would get the signal, then self-administer a blood draw and test themselves on site.
Bill Whitaker: Look at that.
Dr. Matt Hepburn: We can have that information in three to five minutes.
Pretty impressive. Its amazing how the government can do all these advanced things, yet can't even control the Mexico border.
It gets even better. So I guess CNN and 60 Minutes are spreading fake news now because reading this stuff might make people not want to get the vaccine, right? Isn't that how this works now?
CNN Health: CDC and FDA recommend US pause use of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine over blood clot concerns
Sounds just like what was happening in Germany and Canada: Germany halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine for people aged under 60
I truly feel like I'm living in a simulation. Am I the weird one for finding something wrong with this or is it everyone else who has found COVID-related actions palatable?
There are tens of millions of people who feel something wrong with all this. MSM just acts like they either don't exist or that they want everyone to die from a virus with a 99% survival rate. We never got back any of the civil liberties that were given up after 9/11, we're certainly not just going to be handed back the ones that were given up this past year.
DARPA is wild
Daily mail is one of many shit british tabloids - not a reliable news source. Wouldn't trust anything you read on there
Lol they're no more a tabloid than CNN is half the time, but sure maybe you can make a case for them not being the best source. US MSM half the time just omits reporting things entirely because it doesn't fit the broader narrative (see how quickly the Colorado shooting went bye bye as soon as they realized the perp wasn't white), so nowadays I find it more useful to see what other countries are covering about what happens in the US. Also, you clearly failed to read the title because yes, this article is from the DailyMail, but they're reporting on a discussion that CBS 60 Minutes had with the Pentagon. So unless 60 Minutes now falls on your list of FaKe NeWs, you're just batting this away without actually using critical thinking.
Here, try this
CBS: Military programs aiming to end pandemics forever
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