Thanks for a great post. I will be back.

imfunny2: The “mandatory exercise in the workplace” thing pings all of my buttons. Not only is it unrelated to the reason that people are there, but it would force people with various disabilities to disclose and/or justify their uninvolvement or modified involvement. And I can just imagine the escalating fat-taunting now. “Mandatory” and “wellness footprint” just give me the cold shivers.

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This health = morality thing really makes me cross. It is like the new heaven; as you say, if you eat “good”, exercise, refrain from smoking etc. then no ill can come of you and you get to live forever. And that is, apparently, the moral ideal. As opposed to enjoying ourselves and looking after one another…

Anyway, this is a truly excellent post.

Blaming us for our impairment or our inability to sustain exersize. Like *that* would solve anthying.

Thanks for posting this.

This was amazing – you covered so many topics, so well. Cheers for people with disabilities being recognized as PEOPLE. Just a wonderful discussion.

Thankyou!

The concept of a “wellness footprint” is just … appalling.

Isn’t it?

And I can’t help wondering how an ObesityCrisis government would implement that. I’m guessing in terms of badfoods(tm) and grim, timed exercise.

I’m guessing it wouldn’t focus on things like “Eat breakfast”, “Get 8-9 hours of sleep per night”, “Floss”, “Seek happiness”, “Breathe clean air”, “Don’t be homeless”, and “Live with a pet”. (Wonder if they’d consider “Get 6-12 months of paid maternity leave for optimal establishment of breastfeeding”.)

And I’m really thinking it’s unlikely to include things like “Don’t be poor” and “Avoid unnecessary surgery” and “Have control over your life”.

pete