{"id":1155155,"date":"2021-12-25T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T00:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1155155"},"modified":"2021-12-25T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T00:49:21","slug":"uk-govt-to-text-every-phone-in-the-country-with-boxing-day-corona-booster-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-to-text-every-phone-in-the-country-with-boxing-day-corona-booster-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Govt to Text Every Phone in the Country with Boxing Day Corona Booster Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-govt-to-text-every-phone-in-the-country-with-boxing-day-corona-booster-reminder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1155155&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1281220353-e1640369527681-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The British government\u2019s all-out media blitz to make sure there can\u2019t be a single person in the country who doesn\u2019t know Downing Sreet wants them to take a third coronavirus vaccine continues unabated, with every cell phone in the nation due to ring out after Christmas Day with a reminder.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement with mobile phone network operators means the British government will be able to push a text message to every UK handset on the day after Christmas \u2014 Boxing Day \u2014 telling adult owners to get a third coronavirus shot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Broadsheet newspaper <em>The<\/em> <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2021\/12\/24\/every-mobile-phone-britain-get-covid-booster-reminder-boxing\/\">reports<\/a> the government has used nationwide text-shots to encourage adherence to lockdown rules in the past. The National Health Service (NHS) has also used personally targeted messages to tell members of the public that they should get vaccine shots.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports the remarks of Hamish MacLeod, director of industry body Mobile UK, who said of the forthcoming communication: \u201cThe Government has asked the mobile operators to deliver a widespread text message alert and they have agreed to do this to help combat the national pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Booster Pravda: UK Newspapers Run Wrap Around Govt Vaccine Ads<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7OsPCo9BeM\">https:\/\/t.co\/7OsPCo9BeM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1473341242863878144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/government-plans-uk-wide-covid-booster-alert-to-mobile-phones\">reports<\/a> the draft text of the message will read: \u201cGet boosted now. Every adult needs a Covid-19 booster vaccine to protect against Omicron. Get your Covid-19 vaccine or booster. See NHS website for details.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing outlet noted that the mass-text is being treated as controversial within the telecommunications industry because of what it calls the \u201chighly politicised nature of the vaccination programme\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Appeals direct to citizens\u2019 mobile phones is just one of many strategies the government has employed of late to, as the Prime Minister himself puts it, \u201cget jabs in arms\u201d. For the faithful, there have been claims that getting a vaccine is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/24\/boris-says-getting-jabbed-others-is-the-teaching-jesus-christ-christmas-message\/\">the correct behaviour for Christians<\/a>, and for devotees of modernist faith alternatives, there are the constant exhortations to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0c5c8d5e-811b-40aa-8cdb-f7e54bb6dea6\">follow the science<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also bought considerable advertising real-estate over the course of the pandemic, including radio advertisements and billboards. Most recently, British national newspapers were \u2018wrapped\u2019 in a British government booster advert this week, with both front and back pages covered in block-colour taxpayer-funded information.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senior Tory MP Accuses Own Govt of \u2018Waging\u2019 Coronavirus \u2018Propaganda War\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vQKQM1uGGf\">https:\/\/t.co\/vQKQM1uGGf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1467904417873596416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government\u2019s all-out media blitz to make sure there can\u2019t be a single person in the country who doesn\u2019t know Downing Sreet wants them to take a third coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}