It’s a new year. Pandemics are becoming more common. The mask mandates that were once in place are being canceled even though they have ended in some of the poorest states and most populated cities. Inflation fears are driving the US government to get the economy on its feet. Political leaders begin to gear up for the start of summer campaign season.
The official government policy is that the public interest will be served best by an adequate herd immunity level of Americans who have received current vaccines and boosters. This serves as an endemic control mechanism for limiting the possibility of new mutations.
The US has a vaccine-first policy, which science shows isn’t necessarily the most effective way to protect the population. Omicron’s experience continues to show that Omicron gave Omicron a superior herd immunity experience than the more vaccine-intensive approach used by first world nations. Third world countries had lower rates of vaccination and infection from the Delta virus variant.
Nevertheless, each country on the planet is now following unique domestic journeys with regards to COVID-19’s children. In the United States, the core of government policy remains to be the pharmacology sector vaccine approach.
Selling this vaccine concept has been one of most concerted marketing efforts of the US government’s COVID-19 response. It has taken a lot of effort and time, which is more than many people realise. Three distinct phases have characterized the evolution of COVID-19’s policy marketing.
2020 was the year that the world went into lockdown. This was the year of a world that faced a deadly virus without a cure. U.S. officials had no other options but to try to prevent people from catching the virus. Even at the very beginning, the U.S. commitment to put the country’s fate in the hands of big pharma to rush vaccine research to market was the core of the plan. To help the nation until they had vaccines, Americans were paid to participate in a number of financial assistance laws.
Culturally, this plan led to the creation of another division of society into three camps. One who embraced isolation, and wished it to be the new norm. One who rejected isolation, and vocally opposed government attempts to use it as a tool for transmission rate management. A third group was more quiet and decided to endure isolation until the vaccines were available. Today, these cultural cells are still a part of broken U.S. society.
In 2021, the vaccines came out of the laboratory and began to be injected into the country’s cadre of emergency workers, to be followed by at risk persons and eventually, the general population. This vaccine brought together an incredible array of science, including genetic engineering and disease molecule analysis. It also delivered messenger RNA vaccines quickly. This was science fiction at speed technology. It is likely to accelerate research for other diseases in the future.
Scientists and professionals are hesitant because they have come from a culture of slow research, years of lab trials and a history of being cautious. The university is a place where disagreement can quickly turn into heated arguments. These reservations found their way to the social media space, where most Americans are now connected. Academic dissonance can become viral online because it causes cultural fractures which the media can use to create talking points and promote stories that appeal to audiences. The noise factor in mainstream media as well as social media has exploded. This created another cultural divide, which resulted in the formation of three distinct groups. People who believed that vaccines could cause death to the body or soul. Others believed that people should have to be vaccinated and/or be barred from participation in society. This was the only way for 2020 to end its isolation cocoon.
It was the U.S. policy, however, to employ a vaccine-technology-based herd immunity strategy to combat COVID-19. It reached its peak. It was a disintegrated cohesion between state and local governments, with interests groups shouting at every decision.
Therefore, while the federal government decided that vaccine acceptance would be promoted, they did so by not distributing the information through public health department’s official channels. To sell vaccine acceptance in the United States, the U.S. government employed the media as their marketing agency.
According to Blaze Media’s Chris Pandolfo’s report on March 3rd, “The federal government paid hundreds of media companies to advertise the COVID-19 vaccines while those same outlets provided positive coverage of the vaccines.” The article opens,
TheBlaze filed a FOIA Request. HHS responded by revealing that they purchased advertising from several major news networks, including ABC, CBS and NBC. It also bought advertising from cable news stations Fox News and CNN. Legacy media publications include the New York Post and Los Angeles Times. They also own digital media companies such as BuzzFeed News. There are hundreds of TV and local media stations. Collectively, these outlets published countless videos and articles about the vaccine. They were almost unanimously positive in their assessment of the vaccine’s efficacy as well as safety.
All of America’s media outlets became “Voice of America” to promote a COVID-19 positive image. Congress appropriated $1 billion to buy the ads and obtain the placements of “influencer” personalities to appear in the media to sell the program.
The official American narrative ceased to include any questioning about vaccine safety or effectiveness. Only the outlets that were not part of the marketing effort continued to cover the reservations of the academics; and these were then almost universally labeled as “fake news” by social media censors.
Officialdom is responsible for the collusion. In her substack commentary on these events, former NewsMax correspondent Emerald Robinson noted that organizations like FOX News and Newsmax, not only participated in the vaccine marketing program, but never informed their conservative viewers they were part of the government’s effort.
My first reaction to this was to recall a piece I wrote in 2017, back when I still contributed to Ariana Huffington’s website about taking everything you see in the media with a grain of salt, “Three Steps to Take Control Back from the Media Anyone Can Do.” The bottom line remains, stories do get spiked, report filings do get rejected, and cooperative stories do get placed. Agent Mulder, you can trust no one.
The government’s 2021 vaccine marketing campaign has so far resulted in around sixty percent (60%) of the US population being fully vaccinated and roughly eighty percent (80%) of the population having received at last one dose as of March 2022, according to the tracking data published by the Mayo Clinic.
In 2022, the federal government’s goal is to close the gap to full vaccination of the US population. Sixty-five million dollars were issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services to eight agencies to promote vaccine acceptance among the most difficult-to-reach groups in the country.
These eight organisations are:
- Association of Asian/Pacific Community Health Organizations, San Francisco, CA $9.8M
- Center for Global Health Innovation, Inc., Atlanta, GA $9.8M
- Eyes NJ, Fairfield NJ Nonprofit Corporation. $6.3M
- Charleston, SC $2.2M The Medi, Inc.
- Atlanta, CA, The Morehouse School Of Medicine, Inc. $9.6M
- Project Hope-The People-To-People Health Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC, 9.6M
- Public Health Institute Oakland CA 9.8M
- University of Arkansas System Little Rock AR, $9.8M
You now know the source of their public service announcements, when you start to see them.
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