$300 million HHS ad won't defeat our COVID-19 despair
Dear taxpayer:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to spend $300 million of your hard-earned dollars on creating and airing public service announcements to prompt you to feel less despair about the global pandemic and the 208,000 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters and friends whose lives have already been claimed by COVID-19 and the thousands more who will be sacrificed to it this fall.
In recognition of Friday's news of an outbreak of COVID-19 in the White House, including the president and first lady, let us sincerely hope lives in the White House are spared, but that this ill-advised ad campaign is not.
This "Covid-19 immediate surge public advertising and awareness campaign" isn't being orchestrated by anyone with experience changing social norms to improve health behavior such as mask-wearing, social distancing, hand washing, or the critical role of vaccination, once available.
It is instead propaganda aimed at distracting you from the deeply unfortunate facts. It isn't science-based, it isn't being evaluated and it isn't being vetted and approved by trusted public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who are desperately fighting behind the scenes to stick to the facts and safeguard the public health against White House interference. Instead, these funds have been diverted away from the CDC's life-saving work for this expensive public relations sideshow lacking any public health goals or legitimate purpose.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/300-million-hhs-ad-won-t-defeat-our-covid-19-despair/ar-BB19FGjJ?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP
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