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To be utterly fed up of this Covid advert?

198 replies

TheTreeThatSatDown · 12/02/2021 18:29

"Can you look them in the eye and tell them you are doing everything to stop the spread of covid".

Emotional manipulation at its best.

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TwelvePaws · 12/02/2021 19:54

The people who follow the rules will just feel guilty

I follow the rules. So do my friends and the family i speak to. We don’t feel guilty.

Advertising works apparently. 🤞

ChocBeforeCock · 12/02/2021 19:54

I hate them. Trying to make people who have sacrificed absolutely huge amounts feel bad about the spread of covid for which they are largely not to blame. It splits us into the heroes saving the country and the naughty children causing the problem.

My husband is working full time in the week in his cancer role and then working extra shifts on ICU at weekends. He’s exhausted and barely seen his children in weeks to try to help but still has to drive past that shit and second guess if he’s been to the supermarket too much. He fucking hates them.

The amount of people that aren’t following the rules but care enough about covid to be affected by that advert must be pretty small.

MichelleScarn · 12/02/2021 19:54

Its these adverts but hey footballers and others can jet off abroad?! Wheres the essentialness in a footy game?!

rawalpindithelabrador · 12/02/2021 19:56

@Seriouslymole

They make me want to go out and lick everyone. They have totally the opposite effect for me. Don’t make me feel guilty just make me feel very rebellious!
They make me want to shag a stranger.
zigaziga · 12/02/2021 19:56

Yeah they annoy me. I saw one the other day at a bus stop outside a shop that had closed because of COVID (it even had a sign up explaining that the family run business had gone bust after 20 years) and yes it did make me think ...

I don’t really “get” what the point is of them... well, I get that they are trying to humanise the pandemic and show real people rather than numbers but for me that doesn’t work - you could show any of thousands of people desperately ill in hospital and day, COVID or no COVID. I want a more nuanced debate. There are lots of arguments for and against lockdown and I don’t see the adverts as remotely helping the “for” argument.

TwelvePaws · 12/02/2021 19:57

They make me want to go out and lick everyone.

Maybe you should call your GP on Monday.

BusySittingDown · 12/02/2021 19:57

It pisses me off because I feel like it's talking to ME like I'M breaking the rules. I've been sticking to the rules since last March, thank you very much. Maybe they caught covid because they didn't stick to the rules?

The other one that pissed me off was the "I wash my hands to protect my family..." well I've always washed my hands because I'm not a dirty fucker, fuck off!

Staringatthetiles · 12/02/2021 19:58

I agree, it infuriates me.

Especially as the NHS themselves can’t say they are doing everything they can to spread the virus.

They totally let my family down by sending my DGM home from hospital to be cared for by my DM- knowing she was positive for Covid. My DM is now fighting for her life on a ventilator 😢

JovialNickname · 12/02/2021 19:59

Can they look me in the eye and say it is justifiable that I've lost my job, prospects, any money I had, plus my sobriety from having been locked in my tiny hostel room for a year, as a healthy adult? When they almost all are of an age where they've lived a long life, benefitted from the post war economy, had affordable house prices and likely had a final salary pension? I couldn't if I was them.

TwelvePaws · 12/02/2021 20:00

It pisses me off because I feel like it's talking to ME like I'M breaking the rules. I've been sticking to the rules since last March, thank you very much.

Why would you think it’s talking to you then?

Beforethetakingoftoastandtea · 12/02/2021 20:00

The other one that pissed me off was the "I wash my hands to protect my family..." well I've always washed my hands because I'm not a dirty fucker, fuck off!
Totally agree Grin

CruellaDaVille · 12/02/2021 20:01

I feel so sorry for the many teens who are just existing, they are not living, this is no life.
These adverts do have an effect, it has my 16 and 17 year olds shouting "F-off" at the TV because their life has been put on hold to 'protect' people they don't know and don't care about, they are both incredibly angry with it all. This isn't living this an existing and is not sustainable.

BusySittingDown · 12/02/2021 20:01

🙄 Because it's always on my TV, that's why.

rawalpindithelabrador · 12/02/2021 20:02

The FACTS Scottish one is shite, too. F is for 'fuck'. 'A' is for arse. 'C' is for cunt. 'T' is for twat. 'S' is for shite.

TwelvePaws · 12/02/2021 20:05

These adverts do have an effect, it has my 16 and 17 year olds shouting "F-off" at the TV because their life has been put on hold to 'protect' people they don't know and don't care about, they are both incredibly angry with it all.

Your children don’t care about other people? My kids are doing ok but are fed up with not being able to do normal things and see their friends. They still care about other people though, thankfully.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 12/02/2021 20:10

Yanbu. I think the Government has more to be regretful about than the average UK citizen.

MichelleScarn · 12/02/2021 20:13

@rawalpindithelabrador

The FACTS Scottish one is shite, too. F is for 'fuck'. 'A' is for arse. 'C' is for cunt. 'T' is for twat. 'S' is for shite.
I'm going to shout this over their shiteyness!! 😁 "c us for cleaning, again and again" 🤯 can't believe they'll have paid for that bilge!
lightand · 12/02/2021 20:15

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Yanbu. I think the Government has more to be regretful about than the average UK citizen.
Agreed.

What are the government doing to "protect the NHS". It doesnt even have a medium term plan to cope with covid. Just lives day to day.

And as for not doing it's best about flights for the last 300 days....well.

It needs to look to itself.

lightand · 12/02/2021 20:17

@Staringatthetiles

I agree, it infuriates me.

Especially as the NHS themselves can’t say they are doing everything they can to spread the virus.

They totally let my family down by sending my DGM home from hospital to be cared for by my DM- knowing she was positive for Covid. My DM is now fighting for her life on a ventilator 😢

Sad
Fiona2020 · 12/02/2021 20:19

It doesn’t make me uncomfortable it just makes me roll my eyes. I’m on day 10 of covid. I can say I did everything right and I still got it so there!!!

ssd · 12/02/2021 20:20

Totally agree @TheTreeThatSatDown

majesticallyawkward · 12/02/2021 20:21

The one that annoys me is a man with an oxygen mask on that says 'look him in the eyes and tell him you can't work from home'

What is it hoping to achieve? If some is going to work is probably because they physically have to or their employer has said they have to... it's utterly pointless. Public money could be spent on better things, treating said man in oxygen mask perhaps? How many laptops or meals for vulnerable children could these pointless ads pay for?

TopTabby · 12/02/2021 20:24

Yes, I find myself shouting back at the TV & radio. Patronising & annoying. I've obeyed all the rules even when I really don't agree with them. I'm watching my teens missing out on their lives.
Yes, my mask is covering my mouth & fucking nose when I go out as a key worker to keep some sort of normality going.
Stay at home as much as you can. Yeah right, piss off.

LunaHeather · 12/02/2021 20:28

@Beforethetakingoftoastandtea

The other one that pissed me off was the "I wash my hands to protect my family..." well I've always washed my hands because I'm not a dirty fucker, fuck off! Totally agree Grin
Haven't seen that. But when all the soap disappeared in March, I did wonder if most people just didn't wash their hands? 😱
firstimemamma · 12/02/2021 20:28

I think medical staff want to forget about this stuff when they are at home and not have it rammed down their throats when they are trying to rest and recover from a horrible shift. Are they allowed to just switch on the tv and unwind without having to turn over from these stupid adverts? I suppose what they want or need doesn't matter anymore because they've had their claps.