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PLEASE PLEASE GET THE VACCINE TO STOP HORRORS LIKE THIS:

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RedToothBrush · 03/07/2021 12:58

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57702498
Covid: Stars perform musical song in latest vaccine push

dO YOUr bIT.

MakE tHis sTOP!!!

Help me now.

Things are getting serious and are getting traumatic.

WHYYYY does anyone think that a bunch of famous people prancing about will change anyone's mind and is anything more than parading your vaccine political beliefs for self publicity?

Quite clearly we have reached the point where its felt that we have to wheel out the celebs to 'connect with the youth' and all that bollocks and demand for vaccine appointments is waning.

Just why the fuck does this have to be done?

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Bythemillpond · 03/07/2021 13:57

Ffs I have just watched the video.

I can’t think of the last time I cringed so much. It really is car crash tv.

Think I will tell Dd to get a singing career if that is the standard nowadays

Bythemillpond · 03/07/2021 14:01

Isn’t the song originally about someone who set up a fake religion and tried to get followers? I’m not entirely sure it’s the best choice for this particular message

I thought that too although it was so badly done I can’t say it bares any resemblance to the original

MrsOvertonsWindow · 03/07/2021 14:01

Grin Grin Great rant RedToothBrush .

Except I now have that bloody song on repeat in my head Sad

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/07/2021 14:02

It does seem rather odd that, on the one hand, when it comes to people who are reluctant/unwilling to have the vaccine for any reason, they're told they should listen to the medical experts and not a bunch of online randoms who don't have a clue what they're talking about; but then the other way around, you're supposed to follow the 'advice' of a TV cook or pop star urging you to make a medical choice that they too personally have no idea about.

I sort of see the thought train that they have listened to experts - but even so, why wouldn't you have the experts advising you directly rather than them diluting their message by doing so through the medium of Take That?

herecomesthsun · 03/07/2021 14:05

1, I think it's tongue in cheek

2.I am a fan of a number of those actors and think good on them it's a good cause

  1. Personally I really like the vampire themed Romanian approach, using Dracula's castle as a vaccination hub and staff with fang stickers on their scrubs
PLEASE PLEASE GET THE VACCINE TO STOP HORRORS LIKE THIS:
TheSockMonster · 03/07/2021 14:08

Well that was a painful watch.

Makes me want to jump back in the car, drive to the vaccination centre and have them suck it back out of my arm. I think they have grossly miscalculated the British public’s contrariness and taste for mutiny…

BungleandGeorge · 03/07/2021 14:08

You can apply logic to it that it won’t work but actually look at the effect of celebs and ‘influencers’ and social media campaigns many people are influenced quite easily....

Silvercatowner · 03/07/2021 14:13

Yes but my next door neighbours third cousin twice removed fell off her bike on the way back from her jab. So side effects...

user1745 · 03/07/2021 14:13

I won't watch that music video just yet because I'm still recovering from my local authority's cheesy Facebook cartoon of a hair-flicking 17-year-old saying how she and her friends used to think Covid was all a conspiracy but then her grandad died and now she just gunning to get the vaccine (even though it's not actually available or recommended for her age group but anyway...) Seriously, not everyone who isn't vaccinated is a conspiracy theorist! And I was a conspiracy theorist who thought it was all fake I wouldn't be swayed by a cartoon!

user1745 · 03/07/2021 14:14

*if I was

Hamsterhands · 03/07/2021 14:14

I've cringed myself inside out.

On a serious note, I agree that a serious conversation about why people are reluctant to get the vaccine is being shut down with stuff like this. Being patronising and saying "just get the vaccine" doesn't address peoples legitimate concerns about side effects, even if it the case that they are overestimating the actual risk from misunderstanding of stats. As a public information film it is in no way informative and I doubt will have any impact on vaccine uptake.

MrsGulDukat · 03/07/2021 14:16

Fucking hell.

I've already been double jabbed, but I'll happily take two more if it stops such bullshit!!

BadForTheGlass · 03/07/2021 14:20

This makes me want to get the vaccine removed from my body

Dustyboots · 03/07/2021 14:20

I thought you’d lost it RTB and were about to post a horror story- which this is of some sort. It made me laugh.

And yes it puts me off. I haven’t been vaccinated yet and this does nothing to persuade me to change my mind.

Dustyboots · 03/07/2021 14:20

The reverse in fact.

ArabellaScott · 03/07/2021 14:21
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RedToothBrush · 03/07/2021 14:21

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

It does seem rather odd that, on the one hand, when it comes to people who are reluctant/unwilling to have the vaccine for any reason, they're told they should listen to the medical experts and not a bunch of online randoms who don't have a clue what they're talking about; but then the other way around, you're supposed to follow the 'advice' of a TV cook or pop star urging you to make a medical choice that they too personally have no idea about.

I sort of see the thought train that they have listened to experts - but even so, why wouldn't you have the experts advising you directly rather than them diluting their message by doing so through the medium of Take That?

Maybe the entire problem rests with the idea that its the public who do ALL the listening and there's not thought about the concept of listening to the public in response.

Its all top down pressure and all about getting 'the right behaviour' through pressure rather than on the merits of an argument and with no room to difference of opinion.

I an not anti-vax. I know that we want as many people to have it as possible. But I have HUGE reservations about undue pressure, bullying and coercive public health campaigns which delegimatise the freedom to make a different decision for valid (and indeed ridiculously nonsense) reasons.

Consenting freely has to actually mean something or it becomes a defunct concept.

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picklemewalnuts · 03/07/2021 14:21

I really enjoyed that! I was dreading it, but the dancers and singers were fab, and the celebs just popped up momentarily.

Not convinced it would encourage a die hard anti vaxer, but I suppose it's part of the relentless drip drip that mops up the stragglers.

stealthninjamum · 03/07/2021 14:23

I didn't think I could cringe as much. Watching til the end of that video was a major feat of endurance.

2021DNA · 03/07/2021 14:24

I wish I was dead.

RaspberryRoyale88 · 03/07/2021 14:26

Oh my god. I have second hand embarrassment.

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RedToothBrush · 03/07/2021 14:29

@Dustyboots

I thought you’d lost it RTB and were about to post a horror story- which this is of some sort. It made me laugh.

And yes it puts me off. I haven’t been vaccinated yet and this does nothing to persuade me to change my mind.

Oh I lost it a long time ago!!!

I freely admit that.

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ImperfectTents · 03/07/2021 14:29

Here is the Scottish ad. WARNING: YOU WILL CRINGE YOURSELF INSIDE OUT

Rhiannon13 · 03/07/2021 14:29

*It only makes me say no.

The more it is pushed the more I want to push back*

A worryingly immature response @Bythemillpond. Unless you're as young as you sound (under 16), in which case I apologise.

MrsTerryPratchett · 03/07/2021 14:29

Singapore did it weirder better.