Toilet-tattling? Trump COVID adviser criticizes ‘smart toilet’ proposal for COVID testing.
With the CDC reportedly withholding the vast majority of its collected data on COVID-19, Stanford University radiology and urology faculty are proposing a futuristic — some might argue dystopian — mechanism for state and local governments to fill in the gap.
Because SARS-CoV-2 RNA “can be found in faecal matter,” they propose a “smart toilet platform” that can passively monitor COVID surges, “enabling earlier detection of infected individuals and promoting public health.”
Published on Wednesday in the Nature journal npj Digital Medicine, the five researchers pitch the toilet-tattling as a response to the “psychological fatigue” experienced by populations repeatedly being subject to swab tests for two years. They note China’s practice of anal swabs has not caught on “due to its intrusive and unpleasant nature.”
While the researchers acknowledge the proposal “will require serious considerations on the ethics and privacy front,” they emphasize that their “Coronavirus: Integrated Diagnostic (COV-ID) toilet” system would provide “more granular estimations” of virus prevalence than wastewater analysis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just started publishing state-submitted wastewater data in February. more
That’s a shitty idea. 💩 Someone had to say it!
Man, the government really want to get deep into your sheeet
It ain’t going to be just bears shittin’ in the woods from now on.
Beat ya to it.
I’m on septic. Unless they come out on a weekly basis and dig up my tank once a week, go for it. Work that one out suckers.
Time to go all Shakespeare/Elizabethan.
Shit in a bucket & toss it out onto the street Below.
Seems to be working fine in San FrancisIstan.
OK but I’m warning you.
Shit happens!
Since the pandemic is waning they’re having a sale on these…
One turd off!
The government CARES about your health, don’t you know? So much so that they will think of bigger and better ways of spying on every aspect of your life. Just another way that Grandpa Pedo shows he loves you all.
I spy with my little eye car game has defecated….
“Smart toilet?… No thanks… I’ll just shit on your desk instead. Go culture that, genius.”
I hate to keep the CDC bureaucrats waiting, so I’ll send them a box of poop. Everyone should.
As if these people weren’t full of shit enough.
They really don’t want to know what my toilet has to say.
wouldn’t it be easier and way cheaper, if everyone just mailed them their toilet paper?
…so on the subject of “coming soon”, will it also be monitoring masturbatory performances?
….asking for teenage boys everywhere…
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We already have telescopes looking at Uranus.
Company slogan: “We upload every download”
So……simple “solution”……..a cup of Clorox down the bowl before every flush. Let sit a few seconds to kill everything. Then flush.
Read THAT! CDC.
I still like that ad for shitting in a box and mailing it to someone. ColoGuard.
Can I send it to my senators or just the White House?
If the box collapses under my weight, do I need more tape?
Mojo Nixon called it in his 1987 song I Ain’t Gonna Piss In No Jar – “What’s gonna be next – The Doo Doo Police?”.
And I got in Shit for putting a tiny camera in my Bowl for Germany’s Porn Hub Site…
Wait until they see my deposits. I’m already a Guinness record holder.
I guarantee I peel the paint off the device.
Throw ’em a b̶o̶n̶e̶ turd.
MJA knows all about sucking on toilet lids. Bon appetit!
Just how do they plan on forcing people to install those things in their house? I’m sure they will pass them out for free and spend a few more trillions of our dollars to do so.
^^^ what? you don’t think at least 81 million people in the US wouldn’t line up for one? ^^^^
@Old Racist White Woman: Just like the jab, liberals will line up to give out their crap freely. I’ll make them work for mine.
Family Guy correctly identifies the problem.
https://youtu.be/r0O79c5CQWY
ORWW – “Cash for plunkers?”
Cash for Commodes?
If you get one, be sure and don’t put anything else (coke, chicken gravy, dirty cleaning water… etc.) down it as that’ll trigger the COVID COPS to knock on your door.
“Ah, officer, my kid just dumped PlayDoh down the toilet, honestly. That’s all it was. We don’t use the basement toilet, except the kids.”
“I’m sorry Ma’am, but your whole family must now be quarantined.”
I like making statements like this.
It started with nosey bastards that decided your trash cans are fair game.
Sniffing toilet seats is kind of a 1960’s thing. Wake up FBI, it’s 2022.