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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Not doin’ it!
I’m not being paternalistic. I’m being practical.
Do I want to pay a few billion to save trillions? I think it’s a good idea.
Thank You, I knew I was forgetting something. I guess it is time to add another layer of Heavy Duty Foil to My hat.
And gonna have to go to Home Depot and get a new bigger Shiny Tarp for the Truck !!
Because your overlords don’t have their thumbs on your pulse (and more) otherwise!
And add this “We’re about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns” on your tax dollars for redistribution of wealth from a democrat, imagine that!
So the healthy will pay for the fat and sick because of redistribution of wealth in the first place, works just like quicksand. Obviously there is too much money allocated to HHS.
Not a mandate - for now. A few short years ago you could not go out in public unless you were wearing a mask.
As long as it's just encouragement and not some mandatory thing, no. You can always just take the thing off if you're not exercising. Ideally a manufacturer will come out with a version that doesn't share data with anybody but you.
As others have noted, if you carry a cell phone, your data is already being vacuumed. You can always choose to leave the latter at home as well.
If you carry around a smartphone and drive around big metro areas, the authorities can look you up. Our state just passed a bill blocking out of state police from directly accessing our state's license reader database. They have to go through one of our state's police agencies.
Poor people are not generally sedentary. The working poor works the longest hours of any demographic. However, they don’t have the time to learn about things like health or how to take care of themselves. When do they have time to read a book?
I agree with you on the food pyramid. It upped carbs well beyond what they should. I don’t have a problems philosophically about some proper information being available for free. It won’t save everybody, but it might save some.
Wearable..a/k/a tracker, locator
I agree. My dad just checks his blood pressure once in the morning.
Saving me from myself again, eh? Well, thank you too much!
No. No. No.
A few weeks ago I caught Hannity radio, he had Mehmet Oz and a female rep from DOGE on, discussing mostly Medicare moving forward.
Oz and the DOGE chick were going on and on and on that AI is the future of Medicare.
Paraphrasing here, rather than doctors and office visits, AI and technology would take over healthcare for seniors.
I don’t remember if wearables were in the convo, but they really irritated me with the words that were coming out of their mouths.
Hannity let them yammer on, but in the next segment Oz and DOGE chick were noticeably subdued and had stopped bringing up AI Care for seniors. I thought that during the commercial break Linda must have told them they were getting rotten tomatoes thrown at them.
Personally, I don’t like or trust where technology is going.
I don’t have an Alexa or Siri or SMART appliances, and my car is old enough to not be a data scraper on wheels. I wrap my phone in foil when driving so the speedometer in it can’t track my speeding.
When my time comes to sign up I will not be wearing a wearable. Dr Oz the muzzie and his cohorts can kiss my ass.
As the church member told the minister:
“Preacher, now you’ve stopped preachin’ and gone to meddlin’.”
“”When my time comes to sign up I will not be wearing a wearable. Dr Oz the muzzie and his cohorts can kiss my ass.””
Same here. But they’re not worried. They’ll just wait around for old fogies invested in “resistance” to their tech to die off. Or... they’ll come up with something ‘else’ to help push/shuffle us off this mortal coil.
“” They’ll just wait around for old fogies invested in “resistance” to their tech to die off. Or... they’ll come up with something ‘else’ to help push/shuffle us off this mortal coil “”
They have! Still recommending people over 65 get the covid death shots.
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