Kolek planning to go pro
I still remember exactly where I was sitting decades ago, during the short film shown in class: For a few painful minutes, we watched a woman talking mechanically, raspily through a hole in her throat, pausing occasionally to gasp for air.
Goooo, nobody watches commercials
Familiar with any of these?Lily from AT&TFlo and JamieThe GeckoThe BunnyNobody wants to watch them, but a well-made commercial can grab your attention even when you try to look away. And I have a feeling a young, healthy person gasping for air in the midst of a pandemic would grab a lot of attention.
Should have used teal. The Geico aunts commercial is really striking home some places right now.
Jenna Ellis:https://www.axios.com/jenna-ellis-trump-lawyer-covid-2bab2624-0b25-4f47-a532-079fd2c392da.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter
Maybe an ad showing a previously healthy, active 30-year old hooked up to machines and desperately struggling for breath? And ads showing 'recovered' people who used to run marathons, but now struggle to walk around the block?
This is not meant to be a “this virus affects only old people” statement, cause it’s not, but I don’t see this sort of commercial being effective and seen as anything more than eye rolling dramatic to many. The hospitalization rate for “young healthy” 20/30 somethings is so incredibly low, it won’t resonate. We’ve talked at length about how the danger and caution for youthful people is community spread and being a carrier to those who are at risk or elderly. That’s the only prayer of trying to get young people to be selfless If they need selling. Otherwise it’s the same as people having no pause in taking a medication in which a very small percentage have extreme side effects.
Maybe. But with the virus running roughshod over the country, much of the spread coming from informal gatherings, and hospitals filling up, could it do any harm? And do you have a better suggestion for getting people to follow the rules? (Other than a better bailout package, which the GOP isn’t going to allow)
I don’t have all the answers, but speaking as someone in the healthy 30s demographic, “this could be you” scenarios featuring something that is a 1 in 2000ish chance, provided you actually get the virus, just won’t move the needle in my mind, and I’m thoughtful and conscientious with a 90 year old Grandmother and another Grandmother in her mid 80s on oxygen, much less others in the target range.
Over 3,000 deaths reported today.
I thought we'd plateau at 3,000, looks like I'm going to be wrong. We now have more people dying daily from COVID then died in 9/11. Essentially the entire city of Tomahawk, WI died today.
It’s coming sooner than expected. I had said 3,000 - 4,000 by mid January.
"Social inequities explain racial gaps in pandemic, studies fund.""Race is a social construct, not biological."11,547, NYU Langone patients.49,701 patients in Michigan.5 million V.A. patients in 1200 facilities.New Orleans 3,481 patient study.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1336898483329114113?s=19
It is a social construct. Hispanic includes Spain, but that's Europe, which makes them white. People ancestrally from Egypt would be African American but have more in common with those from the Middle East meanwhile those same people who are from ancestrally from South Africa are also checking African American. We call people from Sicily white, but do you think they have more genetic material from African Tunisia or from Northern Europe? The list goes on. Race is a social construct and we made it worse by the 1/8th rule regarding if you were considered white or black. Till recently there wasn't even a common belief that someone was "mixed race" if you had a black parent and white parent you were still black (ie: people's reaction to Obama).