Advertising / propaganda played a massive part in keeping citizens compliant and afraid. Quite frankly, advertising companies should feel ashamed with the amount of societal manipulation they caused in exchange for government coin.
Early on in the pandemic, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) in the UK called for an increase in the perceived threat of Covid by using hard-hitting emotional messages. However, it has since been revealed that government contracts and messages were in place weeks before lockdowns were even suggested.
These adverts were produced in collaboration with behavioural scientists, trying to nudge people to do what they wanted using tactics that operate below the level of awareness.
The UK spent over £240 million on these adverts in 2020 and up to £320 million in 2021. Obscene amounts of money. To put this in context, the government spent £46 million on advertising “Get Ready for Brexit” in 2019, the biggest spend since the second world war.
I have posted some of the worst images from the UK below. They made people feel guilty, ashamed, worried that they would kill people and angry against those who did not precisely follow the rules.
However, I have not seen many images from different countries so please post a link to some of the worst propaganda you had to endure in your country, along with a translation if required. I will then collate them all for a separate post.
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Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
This, if nothing else, is what made me question the narrative. In my eyes it was blatant propaganda but that’s probably because I studied Stalinist propaganda. Anyone else noticed the lowered gaze and uncomfortable silence of those who saw it as their moral duty to bully us and dismiss us in the height of all this? I wish just one would say, ‘you know, I was totally fooled by it and I’m sorry for the way I treated you’ but no one has. I even have one friend who has admitted they now see it for what it is but think they should be ‘rewarded’ for risking their health for the greater good and the unvaccinated should suffer because they didn’t . I said, ‘wow. You know you just said that out loud?’
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Disgusting propaganda. I don't have any examples from the US. I wasn't online in places where I was exposed, and I don't have a television. I do remember being in a client's home and they had CNN on. I was the top of the hour and their covid coverage was like a big event, highly produced, scary images flashed across the screen. It was similar graphics you would see in a big sporting event, which I've also seen in war coverage.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
People are so conditioned to allow advertising to manipulate them, and the governments and corporations know this well. And they've taken full advantage.
If you care to, please check out this piece I wrote last week talking in detail about how these master manipulators can change the minds of those that have been conditioned.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, EMF radiation, GEOENGINEERING, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE THE WORLD, THE UK AND AMERICA 2019 AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
Apr 16, 2022·edited Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
In our blue state, we are still being subjected to scare-tactic moralizing type ads to get vaccinated. It's disgusting that federal/state taxes are used for this propaganda. When all these ads and hourly case/death updates first showed up on cable news stations, and then continued/continue to be shown, my radar peaked and I could see right through all of it. If the vaccines worked so great, why the need for all the scaremongering? Why the needs for mandates? It's amazing how easily most of the population is so easily persuaded.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Thanks for reproducing those images. The reality of it was even worse since they were widely posted on bus shelters. Imagine those pictures in a 2 meter high format. The sickly yellow and red colours were carefully chosen to horrify and sicken. I had to leave the UK (dual citizen) to preserve what was left of my mental health after the relentless assault. Can't imagine what it would have been like had I been a tv watcher.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
I have always thought that the Covid atrocity could not have been pulled off without corrupt community leaders. If Fauci, the WHO, etc. had gone to the podium and been truthful (“bad flu”, protect the vulnerable, common sense early treatment, etc.) common sense would have prevailed. But the power they held wouldn’t let them and as a result the globe is in tatters. Perhaps we needed this so we could find our courage.
Apr 16, 2022·edited Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
No contest, the U.K. beats the US hands down for shameless fear mongering Covid advertising. The American Advertising Federation must have been green with envy. After this there should be a new Advertising Awards category titled “Dumbed Down, Animal Level, Moronic”. The NHS would have walked away with it in 2020 and 2021, all smiles I’m sure.
"The ethics statement in the study says the experiments conducted were fielded under an exemption granted by the University. It’s not difficult to understand why."
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
In California, electronic signs on major freeways warned "GET VACCINATED!" and "MASKS SAVE LIVES" and on and on it went. All over, warnings and admonitions to frighten, coerce and insist that if you didn't obey, you were responsible for someone's imminent death. Silly and stupid to fall for this nonsense.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
You know why this all worked so well?
Because most people did not have the fortune of taking Professor P’s composition class and doing his essay assignment on How to Read an Ad. It was a great exercise in critical thinking, one that has stuck with me subconsciously ever since. It’s really fun when I go conscious about it.
Thank you Professor P! (Even if we did end up butting heads over your progressivism in Summer of 2016.)
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Interestingly, we didn’t experience much propaganda after the lockdowns because we don’t have TV. And we were taking in info from as many sources as possible, before the tech companies were able to curate the internet. Now, all the sources that proved reliable early on are hard to find unless you already know of their existence. I mention this because it seems that it wasn’t just about propagating a message, but also about prohibiting opposing messages.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Those posters are chilling, horrifying, even more than the TV ads with the specially written song with the words "little ones, don't worry now, NOW you get to LIVE, you're parents LOVE you your parents CARE, so you get to LIVE.... " then shows holding your children and grandchildren while they are given the "vaccination"... I feel physically ill just watching it !
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Oh wow these are HORRIBLE!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to see more! Although I thought this would make me laugh but really it’s pissing me off! Anyway, here in Canada we still have YouTube ads (in between the Russell Brand videos I watch 🤣) on how the best way to protect your children is to get them vaxxed. And when I go into the drug store now there’s a sign that says “masks strongly encouraged while shopping”. Will it ever end?!!!
Apr 16, 2022·edited Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
The only thing that overrules logic is emotion, they knew this. The logic was non existent so they had to resort to fear 📈😳
As you rightly say the advertising spend was massive, the government became the advertisers best customer ( for a while ) but now that is at an end and I can’t wait for all these cucks to go bust 📉🚽
Apr 17, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Those ads are disgusting. We had a lot of propaganda here in Australia, but nothing this bad (that I am aware of). Scare-mongering "news" articles were probably the worst, to my way of thinking.
Of course, different states here had different ad campaigns (I'm in Queensland) so maybe other states can tell a different story.
Apr 16, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
You may find the “octalysis framework” enlightening. Originally intended for gamification, it appears to have been weaponized against the masses. But it’s possible that the research he used to develop the framework is what’s being weaponized against us, and his framework is a consolidation of that research. Either way, it’s useful.
You’ll have to move past the slimy promotional aspects of the framework. The intended audience seems to be corporate types. But I’m telling you, it’s such a useful consolidation of the research on motivating human behavior.
I live in the UK but have travelled to Spain to see my family throughout the pandemic (well, once their harsh national lockdown ended in June 2020). In Spain I have never seen a propaganda campaign like what we had in the UK. I saw plenty of standard public health signage -- reminders to wear obligatory masks on transport or stores, or to stay 2m apart. But I never saw anything that could be classed as a government campaign designed to instill fear, guilt and shame.
In Spain, that was purely the role of the media. While the government relayed information in a matter-of-fact way or tried to appeal to people's sense of solidarity (for example, saying things like "masks protect everyone"), it was the broadcasters who stoked fear, shamed people, and speculated constantly about imminent spikes if people mixed too much, or didn't wear masks properly, or took summer holidays.
It was a real respite, as an ordinary person, travelling to Spain during the worst of the UK fear campaign -- between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. In Spain, all I had to do to escape the propaganda was to switch off the TV and not look at newspapers. In the UK, it truly felt inescapable. Right outside my block of flats there was a digital display showing the "look me in the eyes" ads on loop, and a bit further down my street there were giant billboards showcasing that same messaging. It was dreadful -- I even made a Twitter thread about it a little over a year ago https://twitter.com/barekicks/status/1364982037510320129
The very worst here in NYC have been the TV ads.. one running now says "Kids can be vaccine heroes" then shows masked kiddies age 5 in superhero costumes urging jabs for everyone over age 5 saying save lives. More pervasive is the billion dollar PR campaign blanketing our subways, promoting jabs with incentives and full court press for masks & claims jabs are safe and effective. My Flickr has an assortment if anyone is curious how the world capitol of advertising competes to manufacture consent for political policy.
As a side note the expanding mandates here have forced me out of a *volunteer photography* role as city jab mandates now includes all city workers and unpaid program volunteers. Everyone is safer with my park pics banned from WSP Flickr, sigh.
This is a six foot high subway sign if you look closely you see the person seated behind it.
The messaging softened up a little with omicron but was still dystopian -- "Don't let covid hang around", featuring a sinister black mist floating around people going about their day-to-day lives. https://twitter.com/SaraCube/status/1486801307897937926
The most base, ego centric people seek power, fame and wealth (represented today in politicians, media and the least skilled in their field rising to the top of industry). Even without the corruption of the past 50 or more years human nature and rapidly evolving tech would have lead us in this direction. I do not believe these A-holes represent the majority of the human race. How the hell do we usurp their power? It was bad enough when this transparent fear propaganda worked in real time (hyped terrorist threat, hyped corona, hyped this and that for 60 years). There has to be a way to counter it. If not, here in the US we will just usher in new neolib and neocon patsies to do the corporate lobbyist bidding for money and media attention. I can't puke and choke on my bile for the remaining years of my life. If this BS isn't exposed and corrected now then it never will be. There has to be a way to wake up the people falling for this crap. One at a time attempts are starting to feel demoralizing.
The worst of Covid advertising
This, if nothing else, is what made me question the narrative. In my eyes it was blatant propaganda but that’s probably because I studied Stalinist propaganda. Anyone else noticed the lowered gaze and uncomfortable silence of those who saw it as their moral duty to bully us and dismiss us in the height of all this? I wish just one would say, ‘you know, I was totally fooled by it and I’m sorry for the way I treated you’ but no one has. I even have one friend who has admitted they now see it for what it is but think they should be ‘rewarded’ for risking their health for the greater good and the unvaccinated should suffer because they didn’t . I said, ‘wow. You know you just said that out loud?’
luckily im too much of a psychopath to care
oh wait no, i mean i understood the deception cos i knew about virus behaviour and that this was some sick shit right from the off
I don't have an example handy, but on a related note, I thought this was interesting - see how they are sure to say it was the military's (Canadian) own idea in the 2nd paragraph? LOL, ya right: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pandemic-as-unique-opportunity-to-test-propaganda-techniques-on-canadians-forces-report-says
Disgusting propaganda. I don't have any examples from the US. I wasn't online in places where I was exposed, and I don't have a television. I do remember being in a client's home and they had CNN on. I was the top of the hour and their covid coverage was like a big event, highly produced, scary images flashed across the screen. It was similar graphics you would see in a big sporting event, which I've also seen in war coverage.
Thank you for this! Hope people remember this when the madness ends (whenever that is). This is such disgusting behavior, scaring people on purpose!
Additional thanks: I had a half-draft about it and now I don't have to. :)
People are so conditioned to allow advertising to manipulate them, and the governments and corporations know this well. And they've taken full advantage.
If you care to, please check out this piece I wrote last week talking in detail about how these master manipulators can change the minds of those that have been conditioned.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/changing-a-world-through-colors?s=w
The soft propaganda in every major US drug store chain drove me nuts.
“We are offering the Safe and Effective covid vaccine....get yours now” blah blah nice music, Repeat.
Continually playing in the background.
I am not sure if it’s still as bad or if I have just tuned out the bullshit.
Despicable
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, EMF radiation, GEOENGINEERING, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE THE WORLD, THE UK AND AMERICA 2019 AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
https://wrenchinthegears.com
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/10/14/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset-an-overview/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com
https://pandemicfacts.info
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/
https://questioningcovid.com
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/
http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html
https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/
Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com
Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire
https://www.technocracy.news
Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io
www.nojabforme.info
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213
"Don't Accidentally Kill Someone" campaign in Oregon, USA dropped on March 29,2020. On print, tv, radio, billboards, etc. (link below)
Spoke to a relative who worked early on in 2020 as a paramedic.
He knows of hundreds of non covid cases that were ordered to be classed as covid to further the narrative.
That is one man, covering a short period of time.
The NHS knows.
They know that they are complicit in the lie.
They should also know that we know.
In our blue state, we are still being subjected to scare-tactic moralizing type ads to get vaccinated. It's disgusting that federal/state taxes are used for this propaganda. When all these ads and hourly case/death updates first showed up on cable news stations, and then continued/continue to be shown, my radar peaked and I could see right through all of it. If the vaccines worked so great, why the need for all the scaremongering? Why the needs for mandates? It's amazing how easily most of the population is so easily persuaded.
Thanks for reproducing those images. The reality of it was even worse since they were widely posted on bus shelters. Imagine those pictures in a 2 meter high format. The sickly yellow and red colours were carefully chosen to horrify and sicken. I had to leave the UK (dual citizen) to preserve what was left of my mental health after the relentless assault. Can't imagine what it would have been like had I been a tv watcher.
I have always thought that the Covid atrocity could not have been pulled off without corrupt community leaders. If Fauci, the WHO, etc. had gone to the podium and been truthful (“bad flu”, protect the vulnerable, common sense early treatment, etc.) common sense would have prevailed. But the power they held wouldn’t let them and as a result the globe is in tatters. Perhaps we needed this so we could find our courage.
No contest, the U.K. beats the US hands down for shameless fear mongering Covid advertising. The American Advertising Federation must have been green with envy. After this there should be a new Advertising Awards category titled “Dumbed Down, Animal Level, Moronic”. The NHS would have walked away with it in 2020 and 2021, all smiles I’m sure.
Thank you for pointing out just how calculated this whole psyop actually was:
> https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/why-anger-towards-the-unvaccinated
"The ethics statement in the study says the experiments conducted were fielded under an exemption granted by the University. It’s not difficult to understand why."
I don't know how these people sleep at night.
New advertising should be BoJo dancing with the black lady with the lightsabers saying: "while you were hiding at home, some had fun"
In California, electronic signs on major freeways warned "GET VACCINATED!" and "MASKS SAVE LIVES" and on and on it went. All over, warnings and admonitions to frighten, coerce and insist that if you didn't obey, you were responsible for someone's imminent death. Silly and stupid to fall for this nonsense.
You know why this all worked so well?
Because most people did not have the fortune of taking Professor P’s composition class and doing his essay assignment on How to Read an Ad. It was a great exercise in critical thinking, one that has stuck with me subconsciously ever since. It’s really fun when I go conscious about it.
Thank you Professor P! (Even if we did end up butting heads over your progressivism in Summer of 2016.)
Interestingly, we didn’t experience much propaganda after the lockdowns because we don’t have TV. And we were taking in info from as many sources as possible, before the tech companies were able to curate the internet. Now, all the sources that proved reliable early on are hard to find unless you already know of their existence. I mention this because it seems that it wasn’t just about propagating a message, but also about prohibiting opposing messages.
Ghouls.
https://www.campaignlive.com/article/dont-accidentally-kill-someone-says-oregon-coronavirus-public-service-spot/1678630
Here's one I saw recently on local TV.
Avoid the Drama - Wedding Invite (30 seconds)
https://youtu.be/5PInj7-FvSc
These are so appalling
Those posters are chilling, horrifying, even more than the TV ads with the specially written song with the words "little ones, don't worry now, NOW you get to LIVE, you're parents LOVE you your parents CARE, so you get to LIVE.... " then shows holding your children and grandchildren while they are given the "vaccination"... I feel physically ill just watching it !
Oh wow these are HORRIBLE!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to see more! Although I thought this would make me laugh but really it’s pissing me off! Anyway, here in Canada we still have YouTube ads (in between the Russell Brand videos I watch 🤣) on how the best way to protect your children is to get them vaxxed. And when I go into the drug store now there’s a sign that says “masks strongly encouraged while shopping”. Will it ever end?!!!
We were always at war with east Asia.
War is peace
Save lives by destroying them
Those advertisements should be in the category 'crimes against humanity'.
The only thing that overrules logic is emotion, they knew this. The logic was non existent so they had to resort to fear 📈😳
As you rightly say the advertising spend was massive, the government became the advertisers best customer ( for a while ) but now that is at an end and I can’t wait for all these cucks to go bust 📉🚽
Don’t forget ‘don’t let a coffee cost a life’
Remember Obama removed the Smith/ Mundt Act to protect us from Government/ Media Propaganda
I’m sure other countries too
This is just this past week...
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0delpdEln_q_m2falYCMmGLCA
Those ads are disgusting. We had a lot of propaganda here in Australia, but nothing this bad (that I am aware of). Scare-mongering "news" articles were probably the worst, to my way of thinking.
Of course, different states here had different ad campaigns (I'm in Queensland) so maybe other states can tell a different story.
Looks like Reefer Madness
Seems like they learned much from all those animal experiments, particularly those on primates.
You may find the “octalysis framework” enlightening. Originally intended for gamification, it appears to have been weaponized against the masses. But it’s possible that the research he used to develop the framework is what’s being weaponized against us, and his framework is a consolidation of that research. Either way, it’s useful.
You’ll have to move past the slimy promotional aspects of the framework. The intended audience seems to be corporate types. But I’m telling you, it’s such a useful consolidation of the research on motivating human behavior.
https://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/
Thank God BoJo followed these rules...
Here’s a horrific Australian ad that was played on prime time tv:
https://youtu.be/5v0Xc4dWYH4
Funnily enough, the main push back for this ad was that the actress is young, and vaccines weren’t available for that age group at the time.
Excellent article; thank you.
This is a TV ad running in my area. Really unbelievable! 😡 https://youtu.be/13Z6LOQsNa4
Here’s one! https://images.app.goo.gl/UHQqvoxiRfgomZE69
This will be enough to make you barf. Reading from the same script much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3J9jDoaTA
Yuval And the rest of the Globalist must be eradicated.
It’s us or them time
I live in the UK but have travelled to Spain to see my family throughout the pandemic (well, once their harsh national lockdown ended in June 2020). In Spain I have never seen a propaganda campaign like what we had in the UK. I saw plenty of standard public health signage -- reminders to wear obligatory masks on transport or stores, or to stay 2m apart. But I never saw anything that could be classed as a government campaign designed to instill fear, guilt and shame.
In Spain, that was purely the role of the media. While the government relayed information in a matter-of-fact way or tried to appeal to people's sense of solidarity (for example, saying things like "masks protect everyone"), it was the broadcasters who stoked fear, shamed people, and speculated constantly about imminent spikes if people mixed too much, or didn't wear masks properly, or took summer holidays.
It was a real respite, as an ordinary person, travelling to Spain during the worst of the UK fear campaign -- between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. In Spain, all I had to do to escape the propaganda was to switch off the TV and not look at newspapers. In the UK, it truly felt inescapable. Right outside my block of flats there was a digital display showing the "look me in the eyes" ads on loop, and a bit further down my street there were giant billboards showcasing that same messaging. It was dreadful -- I even made a Twitter thread about it a little over a year ago https://twitter.com/barekicks/status/1364982037510320129
The very worst here in NYC have been the TV ads.. one running now says "Kids can be vaccine heroes" then shows masked kiddies age 5 in superhero costumes urging jabs for everyone over age 5 saying save lives. More pervasive is the billion dollar PR campaign blanketing our subways, promoting jabs with incentives and full court press for masks & claims jabs are safe and effective. My Flickr has an assortment if anyone is curious how the world capitol of advertising competes to manufacture consent for political policy.
As a side note the expanding mandates here have forced me out of a *volunteer photography* role as city jab mandates now includes all city workers and unpaid program volunteers. Everyone is safer with my park pics banned from WSP Flickr, sigh.
This is a six foot high subway sign if you look closely you see the person seated behind it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pameladrew/51155971929/in/album-72157717618546553/
Full album starts at the outset of 2020 lockdown when few of us were always out & about.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pameladrew/albums/72157717618546553/page1
The messaging softened up a little with omicron but was still dystopian -- "Don't let covid hang around", featuring a sinister black mist floating around people going about their day-to-day lives. https://twitter.com/SaraCube/status/1486801307897937926
The most base, ego centric people seek power, fame and wealth (represented today in politicians, media and the least skilled in their field rising to the top of industry). Even without the corruption of the past 50 or more years human nature and rapidly evolving tech would have lead us in this direction. I do not believe these A-holes represent the majority of the human race. How the hell do we usurp their power? It was bad enough when this transparent fear propaganda worked in real time (hyped terrorist threat, hyped corona, hyped this and that for 60 years). There has to be a way to counter it. If not, here in the US we will just usher in new neolib and neocon patsies to do the corporate lobbyist bidding for money and media attention. I can't puke and choke on my bile for the remaining years of my life. If this BS isn't exposed and corrected now then it never will be. There has to be a way to wake up the people falling for this crap. One at a time attempts are starting to feel demoralizing.