Posted on 06/25/2025 3:12:34 AM PDT by Adder
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon start a massive advertising blitz to encourage uptake of wearables such as fitness trackers among Americans, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on June 24.
“We’re about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables,” Kennedy said on Capitol Hill in Washington during a congressional hearing.
Rep. Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) spoke positively about what he described as innovative wellness tools and asked Kennedy to describe how the government is promoting access to such tools.
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But it isn’t accurate information!
Not thinking this effort will meet with much joys. All busy bodies are bad, not just leftists. For your own good is especially odious.
That’s the risk. If you can’t get honesty from government, can you really expect to get honesty from Consumer Reports, regardless of what they say in their ads to get you to buy the magazine or any private publication?
So a “wearable” is a nice way of saying “a tracking device for your every move”.
A free market of ideas is at least better than one centralized, government-controlled message.
You can take the leftist out of the leftist world but…
I may be warped but I feel that such obsessiveness with one’s own activities is not healthy. You don’t need a monitor to take a 20 minute walk.
The pseudoscience that getting your heart rate to a particular numeric level is magic seems to me like the 6 foot distancing during COVID. Bogus.
NO!
You never heard of a FitBit?
Most wearables mine your health data and sell it.
My wife has a Fitbit. We don’t call it a wearable though
You can’t be working 3 jobs and be able to participate in the free market of ideas. That’s just going to be a bunch of people who are going to be part of the trillion dollars in social costs.
I do hear your concern, but there are people who are completely ignorant on how to take care of their health.
When I say that, I’d be just as happy to allow states to do this and not have the federal government involved at all.
Your paternalism IMO isn’t justified, especially considering how reliably governments are captured.
And your image of the poor working such longer hours than the not poor is upside down.
I’m physically connected to my body already, so why would I need a “wearable” when I can just pay attention to what my body is telling me?
And you can always just take the thing off if you're worried that the government thinks you're so special that they are following you.
This is effort amounts to a PSA to get healthy, like the PSA's of old to stop smoking.
I can’t believe there is a single person poor or otherwise who doesn’t know if you eat too much you gain weight and if you are sedentary you have less strength, energy & agility.
The food pyramid is responsible for much of the obesity and sickness in the US population and that was the Government “helping”. There is no stopping those who “know” from trying to impose their “knowledge” even if they are 100% wrong about what they think they know, even if a big part of the push relates to corporate profit.
Kennedy is one of those, a zealous missionary. If he would stick to the seed oils, other carcinogens, etc, get them out of the food supply and break the vaccine profit/abuse guidelines he would be doing a service. The more he tries to intimately control Americans the more they will rebel.
Eat less, exercise more. I check in with my e-scale in my bedroom every morning and know how I need to adjust the above calculation. Sheeze.
You don’t see anything wrong with a government initiative to get everyone to wear trackable devices?!?
Lucky You, now You can make a Kennedy happy. < /sarc >
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