The strangely affected Google vaccination ad

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It seems to me that it is not entirely healthy for an ad that consists only of search terms to provoke an emotional response.

On the other hand, as many others remarked when this site was posted during this weekend’s Final Four, the message here is far superior to that of the CDC. Last week, Rochelle Walensky’s store told us alternately that we were facing an “imminent fatality”; that vaccinated people could not carry the virus; which actually vaccinated people I could carry the virus, but it was still okay for them to travel; and that they shouldn’t travel anyway, just to be safe.

Contrast this with the simple elegance of Google’s point: go take the picture and get your life back.

In an advertising competition between a private entity that has to make money or die and an inexplicable federal agency, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised if the corporation wins. Look and read.

Americans get shot and get back to life. On Friday and Saturday we did an average of four million doses a day, which exceeded the three-day average north of three million. That is, about one percent of Americans every 24 hours. At the current rate, assuming we can find enough receptors available, we could have at least one dose in 70% of the population as early as June 15th. Among the elderly, we have already exceeded this threshold. More than 75 percent of adults age 65 and older have had the first shot and more than half have had the second. How is this in practice?

It looks like this. The group of people most vulnerable to dying from COVID is shrinking.

Fewer deaths in a year. In Israel, where an even higher percentage of the population has been vaccinated, scientists are now openly talking about the end of the COVID program:

After a blockage during the second wave, infection rates soon increased and never dropped until another blockade was imposed. But after the third wave, “the vaccine effect began,” [biologist Eran Segal] dit. The number of Rs (the growth of infections) has since dropped to its lowest level in a pandemic, he said, although the economy is more open than a year ago.…

In the coastal city of Tel Aviv, the beaches have been filled during the Easter holidays. When the sun goes down, thousands of people head to bars and restaurants. While indoor sites are supposed to scan people’s green card, which has a QR code, many bars seem to assume their customers are immune …

Adi Niv-Yagoda, a health policy expert at Tel Aviv University and a member of the advisory panel of the Covid-19 Ministry of Health, said he believed It is possible that Israel has almost reached an end point of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, here in the US, our public health bureaucracy cannot explain why vaccinated people should not travel and only now, after 13 months, has it finally come to officially inform the public that viral transmission through touching surfaces contaminated is unlikely. Experts will not return to normal without kicking or shouting, but they will eventually get there. Instead, we’ll drag them along with Google’s tips.

I will leave you with Scott Gottlieb once again to push the Walenskys of the world to be realistic about their health orientation. Both he and she pointed this out today younger people are pushing for more cases in some states, which is what was expected considering how many seniors have been vaccinated. Spring is here, restrictions are loosening, young people are unprotected and want to get together. It’s a race between the virus and the vaccine to see if we get a real wave out of it or not.

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