To be utterly fed up of this Covid advert?

[TheTreeThatSatDown]

"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.

We mute all ads. Can't stand any of them. These Look Them In the Eyes ads are particularly horrible. Total guilt trip.

@MoltenLasagne

There's that stupid "can you say you can't work from home" on a bus stop near me.

Wow, that takes the biscuit. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing THIS little gem yet! WTAF?

As a pp said, anyone who CAN work from home is doing so. What a monumentally stupid advert.

@poppycat10

I hate those adverts - both the TV and radio ads. So nannying and so pointless. Those who want to break the rules will just carry on, they're not going to be taken in by these adverts.

Exactly this. ^ It's like speed bumps. Anyone who has nicked a car, and gone for a joyride, isn't going to drive carefully over the speedbumps. And neither is anyone else who is a reckless joyrider/ speeder. Because they don't give a shit about their own car, (or even their own life in some cases,) so they're not going to care about other people.

@StrawberrySquash

The fact is we have all given/given up an awful lot. And it's been really hard. But time and again we've done yet another day WFH while we miss the office, home-schooled a kid, not hugged a friend who needed it, lost a business we spent years building up etc. etc.

So to be lectured and guilted is just so tone deaf. It makes me angry. Especially when the government has made multiple mistakes and acted corruptly.

I bloody well can look the poor covid patient in the eyes, how dare they suggest I can't.

This in spades! ^ Well said!!!

@RaspberryCoulis

Victim blaming.

If you catch Covid then it's your own fault, you clearly broke the rules and didn't do "all you could", and now you're in hospital and our brave NHS heroes are literally risking their lives to treat you, you selfish Covidiot. But it's been this way right from the start with "don't kill granny."

We don't tell people it's their own stupid fault they have flu, or their child gets chicken pox.

Excellent post, ^ and a very good point.

@Zenithbear

They are as annoying as it gets. Are we doing everything? It is all bollocks for the weak minded.

What about the nurse who house shares with my niece that has lots of friends over, sees her boyfriend and family and possibly gave my niece Covid?
Is she doing everything?

I've seen a few like this in MY area. It boils my piss when I haven't seen my daughter since Christmas day (and hadn't seen her since the end of October even then, because of the November lockdown!) and 3 or 4 households out of 15 or so, are having people around in my street, around once a week. From at least 4 or 5 different parts of their family/social groups.

Then you've got the people who saw the 1-day window for Christmas day visits, as a green light to visit 6 or 7 different households over 23/24/25/26 December, with 8 or more people in the house on several of the visits.

Then they were stunned and devastated that granny got covid19, (and died 3 weeks later,) and blamed the Government. 'Should never have allowed people to visit family!' they raged. But even if the Government HAD forbid visiting family, they would STILL have gone. (Also, as I said, they only said one day, and many people STILL visited people over 23-26 December...)

I lost track of the amount of people I saw, (on here alone,) as well as twitter and facebook saying 'hell will freeze over before I leave my mother/granny/great auntie fanny, on her own on Christmas day. She only lost my dad/grandad/great-uncle in 2019, no WAY am I leaving her on her own.'

Then the whole extended family descended on her house at Christmas, visiting over 3 or 4 days, their older relative got covid19, and somehow it's the Government's fault.

People seriously need to take responsibility for their own actions.

Tbh they need something that's going to make people listen, as I think people are giving up now and breaking rules left, right and centre.

@TheTreeThatSatDown
Oh yes, I agree that while we're all bickering and bitching at each other, saying one lot are granny killers for buying a bar of chocolate, the other lot are lockdown zealots loving it, the government wander on whistling away and not even thinking about how the policies both before and during this have caused the majority of the issues.
However I live in an area where cases are high and compliance is low, it's a deprived area and was left to swing after the industry closed. People mistrust the government, it's become more about sticking it to Boris than covid.
That's incredibly short sighted, doesn't matter if the government were useless or excellent, as much as they'd like to think they're in charge, they're not. A virus is.
Sticking it to the government by not complying isn't hurting the government, it's just hurting your own community as cases rise and things get worse.
Sadly because Westminster seems to be an old boys clubregardless of what party is in power, I can't ever see anything changing.

That was actually a reply to @SomewhereUpMyArse not @TheTreeThatSatDown I have no idea how that happened - sorry!

If you listen to LBC radio, Saga are now telling vaccinated retirees they can book a luxury holiday. So that’s great - my kids are stuck at home online learning and everyone working age suffering lockdown while these people can just swan off on a cruise to Norway. That advert gives me the rage

All the adverts such as ‘ can you honestly say you can’t work from home? ’ is highly manipulative and pointless- most employers dictate where their employees can work from anyway. That advert is just ridiculous!

The radio adverts are truly awful; the man who narrates all the gvt adverts has this controlling dark, foreboding and catastrophising voice that is specifically designed to frighten the public to get compliance.

They do my head in and turn them off straight away. I will always follow the rules and don’t need a North Korean tannoy style indoctrination approach to realise we need to control the spread of Covid.

Some people have broken the rules obviously but I’ve seriously lost the will to live after being told for the millionth time I’ll kill someone if I leave the house.

Then I see on the news photos of hundreds of people crowding into a packed Heathrow airport, some without masks. Hmmmm...

a better message would be 'it is what it is, it's no fun, the less we see of each other the sooner it will be over. Get real, stop blubbering for dates and think about how you vote next time because this could have been handled a lot better.' (although I don't know by whom!)

I think the voiceover is Iain Glen. Would love to hear him try that one!

All the adverts such as ‘ can you honestly say you can’t work from home? ’ is highly manipulative and pointless- most employers dictate where their employees can work from anyway. That advert is just ridiculous!

I think this is definitely something that needs repackaging at employers rather than employees, because as you say, it's the employer that calls the shots, either that or it's been made by people who have autonomy over whether they work from home or not and have little or no understanding or regard for those who don't.
Maybe put out to businesses "Is it really essential that you micromanage your workforce within an inch of their lives and have a culture of presenteeism (is that even a word?🤷) Or could your employees actually work from home, you just don't want them to?"

I think this is just the government trying to get us to turn on each other rather than hold them to account for the death toll and damaged economy.

They've made a huge success of that

I've said it more than once on here; divide and conquer is the only thing this government excels at!

Just heard it again on the radio. This particular one said "Sticking to the rules stops the spread"

No it doesnt you lying bunch of shits

It's all very strange to have adverts which essentially say "It's your fault if you get it, you didn't follow the rules, look at these people who have it", 'cos clearly you think - well they didn't follow the rules, if that's what it takes then they're to blame. You might come back to this that people who are cared for can't follow the rules, and it's true, but then the "blame" under this viewpoint falls on the carers.

It's just garbage though, following the rules does little to prevent any individual infection, it's not magic, all the rule following can still get you infected and it's not your fault if you are, blame is just wrong, it's just deliberately divisive manipulation that hopes to get people to judge and criticise others in the hope that will change behaviour.

Judgement and shame does change behaviour, but generally only for a short time, and lots of people don't. You have to imagine it's even less effective when we're locked down and you simply won't meet anyone who's going to shame you.

I follow all the rules and I hate this advert.

I dont always wear my mask, no. I take if ogf when in my house. I cant promise anyone I do all I can. No. How can I? If I killed myself that would be everything I could to ensure I dont transmit as death means no touch and no filthy breathing.

It just adds to to general assumption that everyone except yourself is a covidiot.

"I do all I can, its YOUR fault" mentality

@Tiktokersmiracle

Because they are already gearing up to blame the public. There will inevitably be a public enquiry into the covid crisis. And the same as with Hillsborough, Grenfell and every other one, they will blame "the public" or someone else, the Tories will never ever blame themselves. They will blame faceless "covidiots" for ignoring the rules. They will blame people for not taking their own health seriously. They won't blame the chronic underfunding and under investment in the NHS they have been responsible for for over a decade. They won't blame the fact Hunt et al ignored the findings in the Cygnus Report. They won't blame Boris for being far more concerned by Brexit and his girlfriend and didn't turn up for Cobra meetings. They won't blame Valance and Whitty for ignoring WHO. They won't blame Cummings for saying the economy was more important, or the MPs who said they put a ring of protection round care homes yet sent covid positive elderly people back to them to spread it. They won't blame Boris for his "I was shaking hands with Covid patients" speech. They won't admit that Eat Out To Help Out and the rapid return to schools for causing the second wave. Jennick was on GMB a week odd ago and he even said they "took it seriously" when Boris caught it. So fuck the rest of us presumably, it only became important when Boris got it.

Nope. It will be all us plebs fault. Not all of course. They will say that some of you did what you could to protect the NHS. But they will say there were people who didn't and it's all their fault.

This 100 times over.

Why should people be made to feel guilt if the vaccine is optional?
Why should people be made to feel guilty, when I’ve read countless reports that a high percentage of medical staff are reluctant to have the jab, or even consider it (as yet) having it...
There are lots of reasons why (some) people are having 2nd, 3rd, 4th thoughts on it.
Not necessarily based on so called conspiracies, but on hard evidence produced by eminent medical professionals.

@Rawmum30

Why should people be made to feel guilt if the vaccine is optional? Why should people be made to feel guilty, when I’ve read countless reports that a high percentage of medical staff are reluctant to have the jab, or even consider it (as yet) having it... There are lots of reasons why (some) people are having 2nd, 3rd, 4th thoughts on it. Not necessarily based on so called conspiracies, but on hard evidence produced by eminent medical professionals.

Yep And they now believe 40% of first wave cases were caught in hospital, not the community.

I'm an nhs worker and have covered shifts on covid wards. These adverts are fucking annoying.

I lost my husband almost a year ago to Covid and this advert upsets me every time I come across it.

I absolutely hate these adverts.
The NHS was ın a good position when the current Conservative government came into power and since then has deliberately pursued a policy of running it down. In 2011 we were considered well prepared for a pandemic.
I have paid huge amounts in tax over the last 25 years and my preference would have been more funding to the NHS.
So yes, I can look (these actors) in the eye, can you, Boris, Michael, Jacob, Matt?

@MEgirl

I lost my husband almost a year ago to Covid and this advert upsets me every time I come across it.

I havent heard these adverts for a while. I wonder if they have been pulled