# A Critique of COVID Vaccine Marketing and Pandemic Policies

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118784464201433542
- Source account: [@wearethrek](https://x.com/wearethrek)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 5:21
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies

## Transcript

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=3) They needed four presidents.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=7) Think about that. Four. I don't recall. I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't recall.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=14) I, I, I don't recall. A hundred seventy-four times.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=17) I, I, I don't recall.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=20) Under oath, on the record, in the hall. I, I, I don't recall.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=25) I, I, I, I, I, I don't recall.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=30) Uh, uh, uh. They had to get four presidents to sell us it with that.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=33) Bush, Obama, Clinton, Carter, sleeves up, cameras take a lap.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=36) Ad council, half a billion dollars in the ad.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=38) Called it It's Up to You, then spent five hundred million on the ask.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=41) If it's up to me, why'd it take four presidents to convince me?

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=45) I never seen a cure that needed marketing.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=46) Penicillin ain't have a jingle. Nobody danced for insulin.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=50) Donuts, Krispy Kreme, free every day, just show the card.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=53) Hey. Beer joints for jabs. Free fries, free ride, free anything you want.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=57) Mayor of New York held a hamburger up to the lens.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=60) Think of this when you think of vaccination.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=62) Then the man go, "Mm." Shake Shack for your bloodstream.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=65) Step right up, young man. Governor of Ohio put a million dollars on the wire.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=70) Vax-a-million, five drawings, five winners.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=72) Roll the sleeve and spin the wheel. Since when does a thing that works need a jackpot to make it real?

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=76) Nurses dancing in formation down the hospital hall, on the clock.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=80) Same building told a daughter she could watch her father through the glass.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=84) Concert vax live, superstars they staging.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=87) And a chaplain on an iPad doing last rites to an empty room.

[1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=91) That's not medicine, that's a campaign. And a campaign is what you run when the product can't carry its own name.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=98) I don't recall.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=102) I don't recall. A hundred seventy-four times.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=106) I, I, I don't recall. Yo. Twenty-second of March, twenty-twenty.

[1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=110) Government document on file. S-B-I behavioral scientists advising, staging, writing, signed off.

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=117) And the line, read the line out loud. "The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent using hard-hitting emotional messaging."

[2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=131) That's not a theory. That's not a man in a basement with a chart.

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=134) That's a government committee writing down the plan to work your heart.

[2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=137) They didn't leak it, they published it, 'cause the safest place to keep a secret is a document nobody reads.

[2:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=143) Don't tell me it's a conspiracy. It's a PDF, it's a footnote, it's a source.

[2:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=148) The conspiracy theory is that nobody planned it.

[2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=151) Safe. That safe and effective, safe and effective.

[2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=154) Say it like a prayer. Say it like a jingle till it's furniture, till it's aired.

[2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=158) And the FDA come back in twenty-twenty-five and add a line, myocarditis, male sixteen to twenty-five, on the label.

[2:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=164) Took four years. So which word moved? Was it safe?

[2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=167) Was it effective? Was it and? Nah, the word that moved was the one you never said. Unknown.

[2:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=173) Six feet apart, where'd the number come from? Say it plain.

[2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=176) It sorta just appeared. Your words on the transcript, under oath.

[3:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=180) And we built a whole country on it. Closed the school, closed the door.

[3:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=184) Six feet on the tape across the floor. Six feet at the funeral they wouldn't let a family hold no more.

[3:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=190) Six feet when my mother was dying and you would not let me through that door.

[3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=194) And she still went six feet down alone behind a window in the ward.

[3:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=199) I'm not asking if it worked, I'm asking where it came from.

[3:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=202) And the man who ran it says it sorta just appeared.

[3:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=207) And in the same breath, "I, I don't recall."

[3:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=210) Masks don't work. Mask twice. Don't travel. Travel's fine.

[3:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=214) Stay inside. Six feet, no data. I, I don't recall.

[3:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=217) Dead end for the virus. Breakthrough, boost 'em all.

[3:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=220) Every time the story flipped, the certainty stayed the same.

[3:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=225) That ain't science moving forward. That's a man protecting the name.

[3:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=234) I don't recall. I, I, I, I, I don't recall. A hundred seventy-four times.

[3:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=238) I, I, I don't recall.

[4:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=241) Under oath, on the record, in the hall.

[4:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=246) I don't recall. I don't recall. I don't recall.

[4:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=250) Yo, yo. Attacks on me are attacks on science.

[4:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=253) June twenty-one. Nah, chief, you ain't the method.

[4:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=256) You the man that held the funding gun. Science is a room where you get proved wrong.

[4:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=260) You made it a jersey, stitched your name on it, wore it way too long.

[4:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=263) January twenty-five, a pardon come down the wire.

[4:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=267) Preemptive, no charge, no docket, no trial, no fire.

[4:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=271) So if the man ain't done a thing, what's a pardon even for?

[4:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=277) That's the loudest thing you never said.

[4:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=281) That's the sound of a closing door. You needed four presidents.

[4:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=287) You needed half a billion dollars. You needed donuts, a concert, a dancing nurse.

[4:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=293) You needed a mayor with a hamburger and a governor with a jackpot.

[4:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=297) You needed a government paper on how to make a man afraid.

[5:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=301) You needed all of that to sell me something you said was safe.

[5:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D4yDdjt5OLN3/en/a-critique-of-covid-vaccine-marketing-and-pandemic-policies?t=306) Ask yourself, what needs that much selling?