Propaganda, funded by us
I've been lax in posting here but have many topics to comment on. It won't always be Covid this and vaccine that, but today... it is!
What do you call it when the government "champions" an "educational campaign" that involves "$10 billion to increase access and confidence" to a particular thing that is being promoted?
And if that promotion involves a Community Corps, "created to provide those trusted messengers with consistent and accurate information... to empower as many Americans as possible to become messengers to share the importance of" the topic "in their community."?
I call it propaganda! Especially because although "trusted" -- "Anyone can become a Community Corps member"! This campaign is also going on at the state level, and it wouldn't surprise me if there was federal (that is, taxpayer either way really) money in that as well.
Read the whole government document and consider where this money comes from (granted, to the government, $10 BILLION is a rounding error, but still... ) (answer, it comes from us, taxpayers) -- and what form this "trusted voices campaign" will take.
Given hints that "influencers" are being paid a stipend to -- in a trustworthy, albeit not transparent way -- post about their vaccinations on social media, I think we can surmise that this campaign is about monetizing the already endemic busy-body-ness that the lockdown has fermented.
I don't know about you, but I find it unacceptable that the government is doing this. If you look at the list of participants, it's far-left social justice activists and huge corporations. Just like the gay pride movement, it more than smacks of coercion and propaganda. Even if I were on the fence about the vaccines, which I am not, I would run away as fast as I could from this totalitarian aggression-with-a-smiling-face.