It Could Have Been a Powerful PSA

May 9, 2021

 

There have been YouTube videos posted by COVID sufferers and by people who lost loved ones to the disease.

I was thinking how powerful it might have been to see one of those posted as a PSA on network TV. It might have been a little long for a typical ad, but the networks could have made it work.

The videos might have made an impression on people who don’t watch YouTube, and so couldn’t see the poignancy, or really feel the danger posed by the disease.

 

I tend to record shows, then fast-forward through the commercials, so I very likely would have missed it; but did anybody see anything like that? (Or maybe the networks are on to me, and figured that nobody else watches the ads either.)