[PLUG-TALK] The "truth" about microchips in vaccines

[Keith Lofstrom]

Most of us know people who are afraid of needles and won't
get vaccinated.  With the "COVID-Delta" variant arriving
from India and Britain, with a 50% higher infectivity rate,
we may experience yet another COVID surge midsummer. 

So, it is important to protect the medically fragile by
vaccinating those who might infect them.  And important
for anyone with a brain to stop the spread of lies that
reduce vaccination rates.

One common lie is that vaccines have microchip IDs in
them, implying that vaccinated people can be tracked. 

Usable ID /systems/ are WAY TOO LARGE to fit through the
tiny bore of a vaccination needle.  Vaccination needles
typically range from 0.26 mm inner diameter (#25) to
0.41 mm (#22).  Most doctors use smaller gauges (larger
#gauge number, thinner needle, similar to wire gauge)
because thin needles hurt less.

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I designed part of the smallest ID microchips ever made; 
they were 0.05 millimeters wide and 0.005 millimeters
thick, a product development with Hitachi ULSI in Japan. 

My contribution was "ICID", small arrays of permanent
random bits that I licensed to Hitachi, intended for the
Japanese market.  Hitachi called the chips "smart dust".

So yes, that bare-naked chip would fit through a needle.

But without a LARGE antenna, it would be as inert as any
other piece of dust.  It was intended for a smart card,
which includes a multi-turn coil as big as the card itself.
Besides being cheaper to make, a very small chip allows
the card to flex mechanically without breaking connections.
Tri-Met "Hop" cards have a similar coil - though Hop chips
are larger, perhaps 0.5 millimeters across.  Don't bend it.

The antenna gathers energy from a nearby (closer than a
few inches) transmitter, and reflects a wee bit of it. 
Without enough incoming energy, it does not reflect
enough either.  "Near field" is the technical term.

Think of the coil in the card as a reflective signalling
mirror.  For wavelengths very much larger than the card,
it is a very INEFFICIENT signalling mirror.  Good enough
to "reflect signal data" over 10 cm distances.  Perhaps
meters, given HUGE amounts of delivered power (enough to
cook with).  Keep your "smart" cards inside of (or next
to) a conductive shield, if you are paranoid like me.

Another variety of RFID "chip" is implanted into pets, and
perhaps North Korean prisoners and other barbaric uses.

Pet "chips" are actually shaped like large rice grains;
for these, the actual silicon chip is attached to a 
millimeter-scale wire coil, wrapped with dozens of turns
of extremely thin wire to form a coil antenna, then
encapsulated in glass or plastic.  These ID pellets are
perhaps one millimeter in diameter and 10 millimeters
long.  Read range is 3 to 8 centimeters for that smaller
antenna.  The "injection needle" is enormous, perhaps a
two millimeters in diameter.  That would HURT LIKE HELL
if you injected it into an arm deltoid muscle.

A pet tag makes a large and obvious bump under the skin,
which is how a veterinarian can find the tag and align
the reader directly over it to read the ID.  Typically,
the tag stores a phone number for the pet tag registry,
and a ten digit ID number for the registry database,
where the actual pet and owner identification information
is stored.

I worked on another RFID product; that tag was intended
to replace bar codes, and could have been a ten billion
dollar per year licensing stream.  It was designed for 
maximum consumer privacy - it would only respond with a
secret code if the scanner already knew the associated
secret code.  Unfortunately, it was too complicated to
explain to the standards committee, so they chose a
twice-as-expensive non-privacy-protecting technique, which
did not find a large market.  Oh well, vast wealth attracts
parasites.

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Now that you know what an RFID tag is, you can explain 
the difference between that and a half milliliter of
COVID vaccine.  If the person you explain this to insists
they are STILL SURE that vaccines contain RFID tags, this
is your opportunity to sell them your bridge in Brooklyn. 
But PLEASE make sure they don't infect decent people on
their way to NYC - my niece lives there.

Keith

P.S.: during a Hitachi-project-related visit to Tokyo,
I came down with pneumonia ... at the same time that SARS
"pneumonia" threatened Japan.  If my MD wife wasn't with
me to lay on the blarney, I might have been quarantined
for months.  I still have the hospital card; my name in
katakana is pronounced Ketu Rofosotoromu. 

I don't have all the licensing royalties; after the Sendai
earthquake and tsunami, I donated those to "Red Feather",
the Japanese equivalent of the Red Cross.  Less money
than a multi-month quarantine in Japan, so money-wise and
health-wise I came out ahead.  

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com