When we allow the apparatchiks of the state power, they abuse it. Common sense is absent among the operatives of the state machinery as one mother discovered.
A mother has spoken of her outrage after she was sent a letter from the NHS warning that her ‘fit and healthy’ ten-year-old son was overweight.
Claire Margeson, of Hull, East Yorkshire, received a letter after son Bradley took part in a national child measurement programme to tackle childhood obesity set out by NHS guidelines.
Any rational person looking at the images can tell that this boy is not overweight and certainly not obese. Once again, these mindless cretins are using BMI – a metric that is unreliable to the point of fraud – to decide, despite the evidence of their eyes, that this boy is overweight and his mother needs advice, when it is obvious that she doesn’t.
So, what to do when these creatures insist upon measuring children and issuing decrees about obesity that isn’t?
A statement from the Humber NHS Foundation Trust said: ‘All children in reception or Year 6 in the East Riding are weighed and measured, unless they opt out.
Ah. There, you are, then. Problem solved. If everyone opted out, then they might get the message, but people don’t do they? And they become their own worst enemies because they enable this stuff.
you can never opt out,as that creates suspicion ,like organ donation will be an automatic opt in ,rather than a precious gift, because you belong to the state. Even when you’ve gone they interfere.
I opted out, simply wrote a letter to the school informing them they were not allowed to take any measurements without my express explicit permission on every occasion. Kids haven’t been measured, and not had any comeback.
My first though on seeing this was to think ‘what the effing hell is wrong with these people?’. After giving it some thought, could it be that there would be a lot of people out of a job if there were no obesity epidemic? Since there is no obesity epidemic those people have to manufacture one.
To be fair, the health professionals that I come into contact with, due to having type 2 diabetes, seem to take the BMI nonsense with a pinch of salt. According to my BMI I am overweight but only by about 2 kilos. If you saw me you would laugh, I’m 57 and have a 32″ waist, but technically I’m overweight. I’m currently training for a half ironman so they can’t really hassle me about getting enough exercise either.
According to BMI, I’m borderline overweight. That said, since I took up cycling again, I’ve lost half a stone and I was only 11 stone to start with.
I thought this was going to be about Camp Granada… 🙁
As the late Bernard Levin once wrote, “The least amount of power always leads to the greatest desire to abuse it.”
Of course the state is mother and father:- precedent? – think orphaned puppies in ‘Animal Farm’.
In other news David Cameron is warning us that Brexit will cause WW3.
Opting out creates suspicion, of course – you’ll be put on some secret list, “troublemakers” or whatever.
But more importantly, you have to know that there’s a plan to poke the State’s nose into yet another area of your life, and you have to know how to opt out, and you have to opt out in time. None of this is made easy.
Probably the first thing this mother heard about the scheme was after it had happened.