{"id":389911,"date":"2021-04-05T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=389911"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:58:32","slug":"four-condescending-covid-19-vaccine-and-lockdown-ads-from-elitist-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-condescending-covid-19-vaccine-and-lockdown-ads-from-elitist-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Condescending COVID-19 Vaccine And Lockdown Ads From Elitist Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ffour-condescending-covid-19-vaccine-and-lockdown-ads-from-elitist-leftists%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=389911&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\/04\/fb_image-340.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/the\"><span>Virtue signaling<\/span><\/a>: <span>\u201cThe sharing of one\u2019s point of view on a social or political issue, often on social media, in order to garner praise or acknowledgment of one\u2019s righteousness from others.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>As James Bartholomew of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/easy-virtue\"><span>The Spectator<\/span><\/a><span> observed six years ago, elites tend to assume this condescending tone toward those who are perceived as lessers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Along with the viral spread of COVID-19 has come the viral spread of virtue signaling. As it turns out, the most infectious vector for such spread is the celebrity \u201cPublic Service Announcement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Suffer with us through four such examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cJust Wear A Mask\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Last summer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) achieved the impossible: making Paul Rudd of \u201cAnt-Man\u201d unlikeable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYo, what up, dudes?\u201d starts a skateboard-carrying, baseball-cap-and-hoodie-clad Rudd in his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cMDirnJYeYk\"><span>advertisement<\/span><\/a><span> for the State of New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cApparently, a lot of COVID is transmitted by us millennials. No cap,\u201d the 51-year-old said. \u201cSo Cuoms asked me, he\u2019s like, \u2018Paul, you gotta help! What are you, like 26?\u2019 And I didn\u2019t correct him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After declaring that \u201cmasks are totally beast,\u201d Rudd takes a few strums on an electric guitar and insists that he is not trying to \u201cpreach at you like some celebrity.\u201d Instead, he tells viewers to \u201cshut up and wear your mask.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Imitating a TikTok dance, Rudd continues, \u201cDo you want a challenge? How about a \u2018stop the pandemic\u2019 challenge? What about that? How about a \u2018save Grandma\u2019 challenge? Is that fun enough for you?\u201d Perhaps Rudd ought to have passed along that last challenge idea to \u201cCuoms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dropping the millennial facade at the end of the video, Rudd takes on an unabated tone of condescension: \u201cPlease, it\u2019s not hard, people are dying \u2014 hundreds of thousands of people are dying and it\u2019s preventable. It\u2019s preventable \u2014 just wear a mask, I shouldn\u2019t have to make it fun. It\u2019s science. Ugh!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cStay Home\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Trevor Noah, Danny DeVito, JoJo, and other celebrities jumped at the opportunity to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gJzgdkvPfNg\"><span>lecture<\/span><\/a><span> the public in the spring of 2020 about the need to stay home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m watching you,\u201d said Robert De Niro. \u201cWe all need to stay home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve got a message for all you young people out there who think that it\u2019s business as usual: It\u2019s not,\u201d pronounced Ben Stiller of \u201cNight at the Museum\u201d fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s act like we live in a community, not just by ourselves,\u201d said Noah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI had to go and f***ing confiscate my 84-year-old mother\u2019s car keys,\u201d vented Pamela Adlon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs best we can, practice social distancing so we can get rid of the spread of this virus as soon as possible,\u201d said Golden State Warriors basketball player Steph Curry. \u201cFlatten the curve. Make sure you stay six feet away from people. Wash your hands.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps the holier-than-thou lectures would have been more effective had they been directed at fellow celebrities. At this year\u2019s Grammy Awards \u2014 which Trevor Noah hosted \u2014 celebrities were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/celebrities-masks-grammys-reactions\"><span>pictured<\/span><\/a><span> maskless on the red carpet, even though mask mandate violations in Los Angeles typically involve $1,000 fines or six months in jail (for non-elites, of course).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cDoes Not Include Pork\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>British celebrities from ethnic minority backgrounds collaborated in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jVlIEPwJb0Q\"><span>PSA<\/span><\/a><span> to reassure other Brits that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is no scientific evidence to suggest that the vaccine will work differently for people from ethnic minorities,\u201d said one celebrity.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe vaccine does not include pork or any material of fetal or animal origin,\u201d said another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe vaccine does not contain the virus itself,\u201d continued another, \u201conly harmless elements of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watch on where you\u2019re going,\u201d said a fourth, adding that \u201cyour mobile phone does a much better job of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With 2,400 likes and 8,800 dislikes on one platform, it is clear that the public did not particularly take to the celebrities\u2019 tone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cImagine\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>When the pandemic began, celebrities elected to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lgNPGH1rXI\"><span>sing<\/span><\/a><span> the most cringeworthy, overrated, and morally <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LIScLe9gSQk\"><span>depraved<\/span><\/a><span> song ever written to the American people: \u201cImagine\u201d by John Lennon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cImagine there\u2019s no heaven,\u201d sang a grinning Gal Gadot as thousands clung to their lives in hospitals across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cImagine all the people living for today,\u201d James Marsden and Sarah Silverman sang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cImagine there\u2019s no countries; it isn\u2019t hard to do,\u201d sang Eddie Benjamin and Jimmy Fallon in a tacit endorsement of President Biden\u2019s immigration platform.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With sixteen times more dislikes than likes on the video, perhaps viewers would have been pleased with a line or two about the end of celebrity PSAs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtue signaling: \u201cThe sharing of one\u2019s point of view on a social or political issue, often on social media, in order to garner praise or acknowledgment of one\u2019s righteousness from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311697,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-340.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Four Condescending COVID-19 Vaccine And Lockdown Ads From Elitist Leftists","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-340.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Four Condescending COVID-19 Vaccine And Lockdown Ads From Elitist Leftists","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389911","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}