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riversedge

(76,620 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 05:16 AM Jul 9

RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks? However, they said not everybody needs to have a



RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks?

However, they said not everybody needs to have a wearable and there are some potential risks including data breaches.

abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-j...

RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks?

However, they said not everybody needs to have a wearable and there are some potential risks including data breaches.

abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-j...

(@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T09:05:26.782Z


RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks?

Kennedy said his vision is for every American to have a wearable within 4 years.


https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-wearables-benefits-risks/story?id=123422287


By Mary Kekatos July 3, 2025, 4:28 AM



Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the agency was launching a campaign to encourage all Americans to use wearables to track health metrics.

Wearables come in the form of watches, bands, rings, patches and clothes that can be used for a variety of reasons including monitoring glucose levels, measuring activity levels, track heart health and observe sleeping patterns.

"It's a way … people can take control over their own heath. They can take responsibility," Kennedy said during a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Health. "They can see, as you know, what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates and a number of other metrics as they eat it. and they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives."

He went on, "We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda -- Making America Healthy Again. My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.".................................
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RFK Jr. wants everyone to use wearables. What are the benefits, risks? However, they said not everybody needs to have a (Original Post) riversedge Jul 9 OP
I have worn a Fitbit or an Apple Watch for more than a decade. So, now he's going after my data? hlthe2b Jul 9 #1
So that... 2naSalit Jul 9 #2
So instead of getting vaccinated, get a smart watch? Jesus fucking Christ. Walleye Jul 9 #3
"every American is wearing a wearable within four years." bucolic_frolic Jul 9 #4
Who is making money off of this and how much? Irish_Dem Jul 9 #5
I never wear jewelry... MiHale Jul 9 #6
Same here EYESORE 9001 Jul 9 #7
Friend of mine was a carpenter... MiHale Jul 9 #8
Any thing that comes out of - werdna Jul 9 #9
You beat me to it. If RFK Jr. is for it, I'm against it. (nt) Paladin Jul 9 #10
I absolutely love my fitbit purple_haze Jul 9 #11
didn't Google buy Fitbit? Skittles Jul 10 #12

hlthe2b

(110,693 posts)
1. I have worn a Fitbit or an Apple Watch for more than a decade. So, now he's going after my data?
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 05:32 AM
Jul 9

That includes dietary data too, including nutritional analysis of my common recipes. All meant for MY use. But, unlike you, I have never eaten methylmercury levels high enough to give me brain damage from 6 times/day tuna to build muscles for some self-perceived vanity project, nor road-kill, undercooked pork to give me neurocysticercosis.

FU, you slimy little defective brainworm.

2naSalit

(97,341 posts)
2. So that...
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 05:39 AM
Jul 9

We can all be easily tracked and found if we are suddenly deemed unfit to be in public or some bullshit.

Not gonna happen.

bucolic_frolic

(51,491 posts)
4. "every American is wearing a wearable within four years."
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 06:44 AM
Jul 9

So they're about to pass a law? Sort of like the $200 Federal vehicle fee?

MiHale

(11,921 posts)
6. I never wear jewelry...
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 07:18 AM
Jul 9

Wore my wedding ring for a little while, always hated wristwatches. Crap like that is too dangerous to wear while working they can get caught on too many things and cause serious injuries.

So…no Booby, sorry…Bobby don’t think so.

EYESORE 9001

(28,580 posts)
7. Same here
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 07:55 AM
Jul 9

I once witnessed a horrific accident involving a ring. Later on, I quit wearing a watch as well.

MiHale

(11,921 posts)
8. Friend of mine was a carpenter...
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:03 AM
Jul 9

His specialty was installing custom built stairway bannisters, caught his ring on a nail that wasn’t countersunk yet while running down the steps to get a tool…ripped his finger nearly off. I took that lesson to heart. Wedding ring is an insane piece of jewelry…been married 52 years…wore it maybe the first year…my wife does the same.

werdna

(1,069 posts)
9. Any thing that comes out of -
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:40 AM
Jul 9

his horses ass of a mouth and worm eaten brain is, by definition, suspect and immediately rejectable.

 

purple_haze

(401 posts)
11. I absolutely love my fitbit
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:36 AM
Jul 9

I wear it with the full knowledge that the Chinese already have my information. Don't really care.

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