Dead bodies, suffocating helpless patients. A tough vaccination campaign shows those who were “right in their own right” – Startitup

The Czech government will start media on Tuesday campaign to support the covid vaccination, which will use photos of people attached to hospital equipment or dead bodies, on which paramedics write the date and time of death with a marker. The pictures are accompanied by inscriptions such as “He believed the misinformation” or “He was right”, informed iROZHLAS.cz.

“Brutal is finally coming campaign, “ announced the outgoing Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at the end of last week. He added that the government was inspired by warning pictures from cigarette packs, writes the TASR agency.

“We have selected from several hundred photos, we will use about 12 of them. Campaign will be in the print media, on social networks and we also expect intervention in the online media, “ Daniel Köppl, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told Czech Radio. TV and radio spots are also being prepared.

Funding will come from the second package of 50 million Czech crowns, which the government set aside to support the vaccination in the summer. According to Köppl, part of the investment will also come from companies such as Facebook and others.

At present, just over 57 percent of people in the Czech Republic are vaccinated. Portal iDNES.cz claims that the Czech Republic also considered the vaccination lottery we had in Slovakia.

After the failure of the Slovak lottery and the lottery in the Chodov shopping center in Prague, where branded sneakers and iPhones could be won, he withdrew from the idea. The epidemiological situation in the Czech Republic continues to complicate.

Will morbid campaigns help?

A similar campaign has also emerged in the United States. “Don’t get vaccinated,” stood on a black van with an advertisement stating that the slogan had been ordered by Wilmore Funeral Home.

You advertise in facts ordered the StarMed clinic, which wanted to achieve the exact opposite, so that people could be vaccinated.

But experts are not convinced that it is a campaign associated with fear, as is the case with smokers, that can really change people’s beliefs. On the contrary, he may rather convince them of the correctness of his position.

“This kind of fear doesn’t move people when they know there are people who have had COVID and haven’t died.” said Scott Ratzan, a health communications expert at City University of New York City Washington Post.

Sources: TASR, Today, Washington Post