Criminalization of disease: CDC is already implementing “molecular surveillance” of people living with HIV. Genetic sequencing data is collected without the patient’s consent, shared with law and immigration enforcement. https://www.poz.com/article/questioning-benefits-molecular-surveillance
In 2020 the Gates Foundation issued an RFP for bioinformatic methods of implementing sweeping molecular surveillance for malaria. (The RFP has been delected from the Gates Foundation site but is still available elsewhere in the web). https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/new-approaches-integrating-molecular-surveillance-malaria-control-programs-round-26
Presumably the intention is to create a universal system of molecular surveillance applying, not just to HIV and malaria, but ultimately also to COVID and other infectious diseases. The end in view is a massive database allowing for securitization and criminalization of disease.
Deleted page from Gates Foundation site.
Genetic data collected via molecular disease surveillance could, and inevitably will, be used to order quarantines and other coercive enforcement schemes; restrict travel, employment, and immigration; and create a new class of public health offenders, criminalizing illness.
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