RFK Jr’s: Health Trackers for All?
June 26th, 2025No thanks, Bobby.
Via: Daily Mail:
Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to fit all Americans with a tracking device within the next four years.
The Health and Human Services secretary revealed his plans during a House hearing yesterday, saying the devices — like Apple Watch, Fitbit, Whoop and Oura ring — were ‘key to the MAHA agenda’.
He said the technology could help people lose weight and exercise more regularly, as well as ‘take control of their health’ and encourage ‘good judgements about their diets, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives.’
In an effort to get a smartwatch, ring or monitor on every American, RFK Jr said he is planning to launch ‘one of the biggest’ advertising campaigns in history to encourage more people to wear the devices — which range from $99 to nearly $800.
The health secretary said officials were ‘exploring’ how the government could pay for the devices for some Americans.
It is the latest proposal in his Make America Healthy Again mission, and comes amid his vow to find the cause of – and solve – the rising rates of cancer, chronic disease and autism in young people.
But some commentators called the move unusual for the health secretary, who has previously railed against a ‘surveillance state’.
RFK Jr revealed his plans to the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday, saying: ‘We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda, Making America Healthy Again.
How are so many people being turned?
Who is the “we” in “We think…”?
No thanks, Bobby. Agreed.
Found a Fitbit about 15 years ago, wore it a while. Snazzy. Found via Little Snitch that it was trying to contact some odd domains (guardian.com?) when I connected it to my laptop for charging. Then it turned out soldiers on military bases were mapping their locations for all to see:
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/secret-military-bases-exposed-soldiers-fitness-trackers
“According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon approved and encouraged the use of fitness trackers in the US military, distributing 2,500 Fitbits in 2013.”
No thank you.
I am interested in an affordable exoskeleton.
RFK Jr. Slashes ALL U.S. Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-slashes-all-us-funding-for
“Will the real Bobby Kennedy please stand up?”
@dale
Ha! I’m with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MEUOW7cERI&t=62s
@ Dennis: Danger Will Robinson!
@ Snowman: Kennedy keeps cheering, then shaking my head. The future looks insane for humans.
I keep cheering for him, then shaking my head? Maybe that’s what I meant.
Humanity is fracturing.
@dale —
When a promise of improvement is made, then another promise is made, then the second is broken, then the first is renewed, then there’s a third, then the first is broken, then there’s a fourth, then the second is re-interpreted so it becomes meaningless, then…
It’s an enemy bombardment. We have to shake our heads to get the shrapnel out.
I’ve accidentally hired a few contractors who turned out to be scam artists. This is how they tried to keep my payments coming while doing lousy work. They had my head spinning for awhile, till I finally caught on.
I’m not crazy, and neither are they. We work by different rules for different goals. They pretend to go by mine in order to get theirs. It’s up to me to catch on — trust my instincts — and turn them out.
Too bad we can’t fire govt officials and stop our tax payments.