• dermanus@lemmy.ca
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    So the vaccine is the government implanting a tracker into me, but watches that track my vitals and send them God knows where is hunky dory?

    These anti government types always have such a hard time when they become the government.

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      Having watched his actual statement, is not that they want your data. That’s a red herring in the article.

      But that the average American is so out of touch with how food --presumably bad, shitty food and nutrition-- interacts with their body, that them, the individual, being able to know of how, for example, that 2nd Coke, and bag of chips is screwing up your insulin levels, and how it get affected in real time could be a positive drive for change in lifestyle. The fact is that the USA has an obesity pandemic and most people’s knowledge of nutritional science can be laughable at best. 60+% of Americans are overweight. And 33% are literally obese, including kids.

      You do not have to buy a wearable. They are not making or forcing to you wear a wearable and they are not going to ask you to show papers before you want to enter a restaurant proving that you use or own a wearable. He said that he would prefer it because how do you empower people who know next to nothing? Is it the only way? Nope. Of course not, but the system has been so captured by interest groups that many changes may not be politically feasible. They could be done in theory but not in practice right now. Europe had s superior take on nutrition than the USA, for example.

      Personally, I would never wear a wearable but I also spent a lot of time studying Nutritional Science and attempt to leave a healthy lifestyle. It is an extra load of work that cuts into other things and not many may want to do but it is one that it is worth doing for yourself and the family.

      Additionally, I have friends who are Doctors and the concept of wearables is not always well received. Privacy concerns aside, the worry is that it can turn a lot of people into hypochondriacs if they do not fully understand some basics of human anatomy and take raw data out of context. Not to mention a waste of resources if people want to run tests for absolutely everything they think might be wrong with it. It can also be a source for unnecessary stress in some people.

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        3 months ago

        Bro wrote a novel just to say they’re dumb as rocks. Lmao.

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        Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it

        You haven’t researched as well as you think you have. Even freshly squeezed juice is unhealthy. You need the pulp too in order to slow the sugar metabolism, in which case you may as well just eat fruit.

        Check Robert Lustig re sugars.

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        But that the average American is so out of touch with how food --presumably bad, shitty food and nutrition

        A substantial part is that our food is filled with shit.

        They add sugar to everything. Food marketing is insane, and so much of it should be illegal.

        Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it. Getting a loaf of bread will involve eating extra sugar. The country subsidizes corn, so high fructose corn syrup is added to everything.

        Unregulated hell capitalism means that food gets to be pumped full of shit. Broke and stressed people rely on convenience foods - which don’t need to be unhealthy but are purposefully made so with addictive ingredients.

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    Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.

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    My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There’s no way that I’m replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.

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      If it ever comes to this, I’m going to “forget” to charge mine. Every day since it comes out of the box. I might wear it so that I don’t get stopped in public but this is going to be a brick.

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        I’m sure soon enough we’ll be “wearing” them inside our bodies so we don’t have to be troubled to make sure they’re working. Hasn’t that been the Big Tech dream for decades now?

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      I’ve got 20 watches and only ever change the Swatch batteries. They’re laughably inefficient. One is an old smart watch, but it needs charged daily and I’m not up to all that.

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    You know what else would help? Annual (or more) blood tests during routine wellness checks with your doctor.

    Do you know why most people don’t get those?

    Insurance won’t cover them. Many insurance providers won’t cover them.

    Maybe start there? Although I’m guessing he has no buddies who would make money from routine blood tests.

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      You know what else would help? Annual (or more) blood tests during routine wellness checks with your doctor.

      Do you know why most people don’t get those?

      Insurance won’t cover them.

      My insurance covers this.

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    I love how these extremist Christian Republicans always go on about the mark of the beast and how everyone will be forced to wear it but that the righteous man won’t wear it…

    All of them will do this, mark my words. These fuckers are worshipping Satan as far as they know and they’re fine with it.

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    No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.

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    American evangelicals when the government suggests getting a vaccine for a deadly virus- “IT’S THE MARK OF THE BEAST DON’T GET IT OR YOU’LL GO TO HELL”

    American evangelicals when people they voted for say you need to wear something on your wrist to participate in society - “This is fine”

    A wearable computer is much more similar in form to what is described in the Book of Revelation than a vaccine is, but these dumbasses don’t see that because they’re not operating on logic but instead are just doing what they’re told.

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    He reminds me of the ‘precious bodily fluids’ general from Dr Strangelove.

    edit: holy crap, I just rewatched the movie and RFK is EXACTLY that general. The general talks about toxins from fluoride in drinking water poisoning our precious bodily fluids. He even looks a bit like RFK. Its almost RFK is trying to act exactly like that general.

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    Revelation 13:16-17 New International Version 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

    Huh. No uproar from the people who believe in this shit? Weird.

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    Guess we’ll cut food stamps but tell people who can afford to to get a watch