An open letter

[catsidhe]

Dear Entire Advertising Industry,

I know it's been going on forever, but I just saw it again, and thought I had to say something.

When you advertise painkillers and cold and flu drugs, you really don't have a lot of range, do you?

It's just that if you're going to advertise cold and flue drugs, marketing them as being suitable to mask over your symptoms while you go to work still sick and still contagious might not be the best possible message to be sending: right now, for the last seven or eight months, and for the foreseeable future.

I mean, I know advertising is replete with sociopathy as an industry and as a concept, but you could at least try to hide it a bit.


Not a lot of love,

Me.

Comments

[beckishadow]

Yeaaaaah....

You plagiarised this right out of my head!

[tangent_woman]

I furiously and emphatically agree. Every time I see an ad that suggests that "soldiering on" and going to work, shops, school etc while suffering a disease serious enough that you have to use their product to make such activity tolerable, I go off on a mini-rant about it not being okay. Especially, especially, especially given the pandemic you'd think they'd come up with a different marketing strategy than "Why stay at home and suffer the plague when you can be a stealth plague rat with the help of our drugs?"