More kids are out walking than Michelle ever got moving.
Via Freedom Works:
In the process of becoming a consumer success, the Pokémon Go game app has proven that market incentives are far more effective than government-implemented standards.
The free market inspires results, unlike government measures which only work via edict. Even then nanny state mandates usually only succeed at a marginal rate. Users across the U.S. wanted to catch Pokémon, so they went searching for them.
The Pokémon Go phenomenon has helped reveal how useless the unofficial office of the first lady truly is. In a desperate attempt at relevancy — and at underhandedly pushing big government policy — Mrs. Obama started the “Let’s Move Initiative.” Begun in early 2010, the purpose of this grand scale federal measure was to decrease childhood obesity.
On Letsmove.gov’s “get active” tab, uncited stats are thrown at the visitor, alarming him or her to the supposed dangers electronic devices pose to America’s youth:
that eight to 18-year-old adolescents spend an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media including TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies in a typical day, and only one-third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity.
Ironically enough, it has been electronic devices that have gotten Americans moving and exercising, not measures forwarded by a bloated federal government hiding behind the first lady’s smiley face veneer.
The premise of the Android and iOS compatible Pokémon Go game mirrors Nintendo’s original 1990s handheld game in that the aim for players is to catch as many of the Pokémon — small creatures used to fight each other — as they can. Players must go out and explore the world to find these adorable micromonsters who lurk in such varied places as parks and rivers.
As Vox.com put it, to catch the Pokémon, “you’re going to have to explore far and wide, during the day and night — like [Pokémon coach] Ash Ketchum does in the TV show. It’s the only way to become the very best, like no one ever was.”