The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Breaks Privacy Laws and is Unconstitutional. Some People Are Resisting Intrusive NWO Phone-Surveys.

The behavioral risk factor surveillance system is one of the latest hair-brained government programs.

It is truly too bad there are insufficient mechanisms available to Americans that limit the substantial stupidity that exists in Washington.

This is a formal request to Congress to outlaw a system that achieves nothing, wastes the time of people who would otherwise be doing useful work in the economy, and it is just one more nail in the coffin of our once-glorious democracy.

No one is listening, and probably this request will morph into just another question on the questionnaire. It will be something like “Are you feeling hostile at this moment?”

A boondoggle is defined as a superfluous or wasteful project or activity (or government department), and the verb form of the word is to waste money and/or time on a boondoggle.

You will appreciate therefore why the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and incidentally, the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), which falls under the Centers (sic) for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are the ultimate boondoggles.

The word boondoggle was created for government departments like this. Actually it wasn’t; it comes from the name of the cord around a Boy Scout’s neck, but that’s more useful; at least a cord round your neck looks good.

There are people who enjoy fouling the BRFSS survey. Who has time to sit around being a statistic?

No one does, so you might as well put this wasted time to good use by giving wrong and misleading answers to the no-hoper at the other end of the phone who claims to understand methodology.

The first thing you have to do when someone from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is to state clearly and unequivocally that you are in an institution.

This will cause the person at the other end of the phone to seize up and not know how to proceed for a minute or two at least.

This is because the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is designed to determine the risk behaviors and health practices among non-institutionalized adults. Insist that your home is an institution.

Next you should demand payment if you are going to waste time answering questions, the answers to which are self-evident, in your humble view.

This should end the call, as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System does not make allowance for those questioned to be compensated. Or you can tell the caller you already answered the survey a day or two before.

This should throw the caller completely, as the telephone numbers for the survey are collected randomly.

With any luck, the number crunchers will launch an intensive investigation into the immense coincidence of the same number getting chosen twice.

Purpose of BRFSS Statistics

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System statistics are compiled and saved. You can go online and check them out any time. They are extremely useful as fillers on radio, TV and in newspapers for showing what an incredible job the government does of accumulating statistics.

Statistically speaking, the government is collecting one more piece of information every 0.00045 second of the day. That is an incredible statistic. Thus you might see some bright spark on TV telling how Americans now eat more ham sandwiches than ever before, which has led to concern that hot dogs are on their way out.

Or that more people lay supine during the day than five years ago, which is a definite indication that the population is vertically challenged. And all of this means, naturally, more obesity, more cancer, more heart disease and, inevitably, more statistics. There is no end of interesting morsels that can be gleaned, free of charge, from BRFSS statistics.

Amusement for the Unamused

Ever wondered who the pisscats in America are? Or rather, who the people in America are who would admit to being pisscats over the phone to a total stranger? You should just consult the BRFSS online. Go to BRFSS Maps. Let’s look at alcohol consumption in 2007 and see what the responses to a certain question were.

With a straight face, surveyors asked startled folk if they were binge drinkers. For those who said they did not know what binge drinkers were, the surveyor explained that binge drinkers were males who took five or more drinks on one occasion, and female who took four or more drinks on the same occasion.

Sounds like a party! You can then find out where the parties in the U.S. were happening in 2007 (or at least where the respondents said the parties were happening) by clicking through to “yes.” The results are startling! The most piss-ups occur in North Dakota, if the respondents are to be believed, and in Wisconsin.

Whoa, did the respondents in Wisconsin know that drinks referred to alcohol and not milk? If they indeed knew the questions referred to alcohol, why, we need to get to Wisconsin, home of the happy American imbiber.