Is This Propaganda?

Snapshot In Time

• COVID-19 is real. The new virus was killing many people in many countries. There was a risk that millions of people would die like in the 1918 flu

• Hospitals were overwhelmed with the number of patients. Many people were dying because they just couldn’t get medical care

• The stock market crashed

• 30 million people were in danger of becoming homeless in the United States

• Entire business sectors were threatened with bankruptcy

• There was no more room for dead bodies inside hospitals, so refrigerated trucks were brought in for storage and parked outside

• “… the pandemic has created a demand shock, a supply shock, and a financial shock all at once (Triggs and Kharas 2020).”

An emergency was declared by the United Nations and every country on Earth.

Propaganda = Information, Biased or Misleading, that Promotes Particular Point of View

Obviously, leaders across the world were scared. When a vaccine was developed quickly, the next step was to get people to take it.

Enter the messaging.

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