• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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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.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    Follow the money. Nominee for surgeon general has a stake in wearable tech.

    Just like when those scatter machines were forced on the TSA, it’s because the person in charge had a stake in the company making them.

    My company gave these things away to each employee for some ‘fitness challenge’ between departments…I never even opened the package. My group was mad at me for not helping win the free lunch or whatever it was … Until I made them read the privacy policy. Many stopped wearing them immediately

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

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    Mandating Americans use ‘wearables’ for health reasons thats coming from the same party that, when asked to wear a mask during a worldwide pandemic for the public health decried government overreach, claiming it was like living in nazi germany, and even discredited Fauci over his very true claims of wearing masks helping to save lives. I truly cant wait to see what that side has to say about Junior here, gotta keep that same energy right??

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    Ok RFK. Let’s see you and all of Trump’s squad do it first, and make sure it’s public in realtime. I’d love to see timestamps each and every time he reads AOC tweets.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    Thing is putting the horrific privacy concerns aside it’s not like it’s a bad idea from a health perspective. Everybody being simply more aware of the things their body is doing is immensely helpful on a societal scale.

    Problem is there aren’t any devices that are local only or otherwise truly private. Apple stores your data locally on your phone which is good, but there’s no guarantee it’ll always be that way.

    Pass a law that protects wearable health data under HIPAA and I’d consider it.

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      HIPAA data is protected…until it isn’t. Laws change. Especially when companies are salavating to access health data.

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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.