I was going to comment on this one yesterday, but ran out of time. Still, no present like the time.
A new NHS initiative will force families off the sofa and into better habits by using ‘smart homes’.
The radical healthy homes will see people being monitored by their GPs digitally meaning they don’t even have to leave the house.
The new homes will have movement sensors and other technology linked to a computer that will send results directly to GPs and hospitals.
I ought to be amazed that anyone would think that this is a good idea, but we are too far down the rabbit hole for that. This evil little man clearly does think it’s a good idea, though.
Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of NHS England, told The Telegraph: ‘The Healthy New Towns project is coming up with new and exciting ideas for healthy living and we want to make sure everyone benefits.
‘If the big housebuilders join us it means that millions of people across the country, as well as their children and grandchildren, could be living happier, healthier lives in the towns and villages of the future.’
The new scheme will let the NHS badger millions of people towards better choices.
It will also medical professionals to recommend weight loss and stop smoking centres to patients.
He is so lacking in self-awareness that he is proud of this idea. George Orwell intended that we should be repulsed by the Telescreen badgering Winston to do his push-ups and here we have this creature actively recommending that our homes be used to nag us.
As it is, I am not planning to buy a new home. If I did, however, I would promptly remove all the sensors – or demand that the seller do so before I signed any contract.
As for Sir Malcolm Grant; there are no words that can adequately describe my contempt for him and his evil ideas.
I do hope the software can detect when I raise my arm to drink my G&Ts and pints of beer, as I loll in my armchair watching TV. Unfortunately I don’t smoke.
Having had recent contact with a cardiologist, I got the distinct impression that he was less keen on middle aged exercise junkies than he was on overweight couch potatoes with bad diets. The fact is that life is out to get you whatever you do.
When are the powers that be going to realise that the solution to the problems of old age care and healthcare under funding are the exact opposite of this kind of boll*cks?
The people who use most NHS and social care resources are the people who get old. Not the people who die young from lung cancer, massive MacDonalds induced heart attacks at 55, or any other self inflicted early grave. The last thing the NHS needs is everyone living to be 95, because those last 20 years will be full of demands on the NHS and the social care budget.
If the State had any sense, it would reduce taxes on alcohol, tobacco, legalise drugs, try and get people to eat as unhealthy a diet as possible, and get the life expectancy down a bit. There is no way a nation can run a Ponzi healthcare and pension system such as we have when everyone lives to be 90 odd, but stops work in their 60s. The numbers just don’t add up. We either go back to keeling over in our 60s and 70s like we used to, or we stop having universal free healthcare. We can’t have both.
@Jim
+1 Gov’t should imho inform, but not judge and punish-tax personal pleasures.
Bunch of hypocrites as so many – Thornberry, Jess Philips, Soubray, Morgan – are overweight/fat/obese heavy smokers &/or drinkers
Spot on ,
“If the State had any sense …”
Ay, there’s the rub!
*awaits the first case of a GP realising it is his wife or daughter getting it three ways on that couch in a marathon sex, doritos and “Lost” session. Double plus good.
Excellent, BD.
Dear Mr Longrider
Stasi homes – built to spy on us.
If they can be built to spy on our ‘health’ choices, they can built to spy on anything else our beloved government™ wants to know about us.
Without privacy, we are livestock.
DP
Could I equip his house with a motion sensor so that it can say “Go back to bed, you malignant piss-gibbon!”?
Can I equip his house with a device to shout “GO BACK TO BED YOU MALIGNANT LITTLE PISS-GIBBON!“?
I rather doubt that Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of NHS England has read 1984. If I am correct in that assumption it really shows what an insight George Orwell had into the evil little minds of such people.
Meanwhile radio listeners are being bombarded with ads for “Change for Life” that recommend that we limit our kiddiwinks to “One hundred calorie snacks, two a day max”. A little research tells us that a Freddo, a 20 gram chocolate bar in the shape of a frog, will attract the wrath of the snack police. A 15 gram chocolate bar is all that you are allowed, otherwise you will grow morbidly obese, get type 2 diabetes and all your teeth will fall out. If you should visit the Change for Life website, you will find that there is no way that you can comment on any of the content.