• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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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    9 days ago

    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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    9 days ago

    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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    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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    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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    9 days ago

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

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    RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.

    He can fuck off.

    If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.

    Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)

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    “Wearables” but they forget to mention it’s about government mandated trackers in a closed ecosystem.
    They will track which bad (health or otherwise) groups of people one has come in contact with and make deductions based on that.

    Ofcourse it’s also extra business for the ice teams. And the deluxe wearable also tracks payments.

    The European Covid tracking app back then already was very scary in its early setup … and this mandated wearable idea will be far worse.