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ebola bracelet

pseudo-quarantine monitoring bracelet for a-symptomatic people
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wearable have been such a failure.

it's time for a markeatable moment. Plague and quarantine ; challenge, to prevent asymptomatic people from spreading the disease sans repressive and costly medical quarantine.

Fear of Ebola is growing by the day. Quarantine is becoming a 'thing' but quarantine itself is bad for commerce and the consumer and it is inhibitive. it can score politicians points but only to a certain extent.

THE solution; the ebola monitoring bracelet.

People can now be provided a (mandatory?) monitoring bracelet of temperature , sweat, oxygen in the blood, and pulse----and gps. a networked cloud vitals monitoring system detects early symptoms and automatically notifies wearers to come in for voluntary or mandatory checkup with Ebola clinic. Bracelet , options include, audio-visual compliance 'alarm' for 3rd parties, haptic vibrator alarm, remote (un)lock, and biometric-time-stamp confirmation wearer ID.

Healthlet sold to government employees, WHO, west african residents at large.

No more quarantine for the asymptomatic.

teslaberry, Oct 27 2014

150 mill of hazmat suits on gov dime. http://wgno.com/201...-50-on-ebola-fears/
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       And we know which category it's in.
normzone, Oct 27 2014
  

       150 million dollars? How many of these suits did they buy?
zeno, Oct 27 2014
  

       hazmat suits are profiteable! when you have government tax dollars to buy them with.
teslaberry, Oct 27 2014
  

       I found they got 160,000 suits for 192,000,000   

       1200 a piece
zeno, Oct 27 2014
  

       how long do they last ?
FlyingToaster, Oct 27 2014
  

       I just noticed - multiple capital letters, and in appropriate places.   

       Sort out the category choice and I'd bun this.
MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 27 2014
  

       Deliberately infect everyone with ebola. See who survives without treatment.   

       Et viola; instant population control, and no need to spent money developing a vaccine or a treatment.   

       What could possibly go wrong … ?
8th of 7, Oct 27 2014
  

       You do know that cats are resistant?
MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 27 2014
  

       Bugger.   

       Oh well, back to the CAD system …
8th of 7, Oct 27 2014
  
      
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