In Australia, I don't think pharma companies can advertise direct to the public, but there are ways around this. Shortly after the 'Interim Solution' (ie 'vaccines') began here - but well after other countries had begun and after certain 'side effects' had been listed by those who were awake - I noticed certain medical clinics advertising for patients in the treatment of 'shingles' on large tv screens in large retail businesses. Apart from the fact that I was unaware of any 'shingles epidemic' and certainly before side effects became an issue here, I don't recall ever seeing such narrowly-focused adverts by doctors. Maybe this is simply because I tend to ignore mainstream channels but, without foreknowledge of coming illnesses, it's hard to see how such specific advertising could ever hope to exist within any rational cost-benefit universe.
TV ads and commercials as well as other forms of advertising are marketing us to death. Yes, they will guide you to a quicker and more painful death. I thank the Heavens that remotes still have a mute button.
In Australia, I don't think pharma companies can advertise direct to the public, but there are ways around this. Shortly after the 'Interim Solution' (ie 'vaccines') began here - but well after other countries had begun and after certain 'side effects' had been listed by those who were awake - I noticed certain medical clinics advertising for patients in the treatment of 'shingles' on large tv screens in large retail businesses. Apart from the fact that I was unaware of any 'shingles epidemic' and certainly before side effects became an issue here, I don't recall ever seeing such narrowly-focused adverts by doctors. Maybe this is simply because I tend to ignore mainstream channels but, without foreknowledge of coming illnesses, it's hard to see how such specific advertising could ever hope to exist within any rational cost-benefit universe.
Thank you Ray, this insidious advertising is literally inserted everywhere in everything. Btw, I don't watch tv, in Australia it is utter crap.
TV ads and commercials as well as other forms of advertising are marketing us to death. Yes, they will guide you to a quicker and more painful death. I thank the Heavens that remotes still have a mute button.