campaigning for change
9 days to smoke free work in Northern Ireland; are ya ready? on a different subject but related to adverts, there is an increase in southern ireland government departments use of the airwaves in the run up to the election, these are not adverts for the ministers or the party in power but odd that these ads hit screens NOW isn’t it. So 5 weeks before an election is the best time to start a campaign to say just how well policy is progressing. most of these adverts are health related, and our taxes pay for the HSE to advertise. type of advert in poster format. MRSA was discovered in 1961, are our hands more dirty now? is MRSA a hospital-associated infection, or does it come from dirty public transport? what about the “search and destroy” strategy as we know MRSA *is* in the hospitals.
this is like preparing a country for war. look bogey man.
advert > fear > solution > policy acceptance gain > vote getter
insult is we pay for it.
April 21st, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I’m not too sure what you are saying except that because it is campaign related,or maybe no matter what, that you believe that money spent on MRSA research and eradication is money wasted. I believe any publicity this condition can receive is worth time spent and any money going to research or cleaning up the hospitals, and dirty transport! if we must, is money well spent nd not enough of it is being spent to stop this potential plague that is getting closer daily to being incurable. I would like to see research into Phage Therapy financed in all countries whether the pharmaceutical companies want it or not. I would like to see those scoffing at it deal with a six inch deep boil they caught on a dirty bus.
April 21st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Furthermore. aren’t you the fighting Irish? Why not fight what you seem to consider just a little Microbe unworthy of being considered a real boogy man? Other countries are waging war with MRSA and one has even won. A little place called The Netherlands is ahead of us all. Many of us here in the United States are trying to get enough awareness of MRSA to get our government to eradicate it here and I would welcome it on our political platforms, would welcome even just one politician to just say he wants to raise money to finance this war on MRSA here. You re luckier than you know. Maybe read Survivors in Awareness on http://www.mrsaresources.com and meet some of my dying and sick friends.
April 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 am
my main point is adverts now on the eve of election. not 4 years ago, not 2 years ago, but now. Money wasted on administration is money wasted. the yellow packing of hospital services/jobs, the outsourcing of cleaning and the politicizing of health campaigns is not welcome. MRSA is a killer. I am no expert, but what I see the experts in charge doing is spend money on adverts showing visitors bringing in MRSA to hospitals. The MRSA is there already, search and destroy, isolate and don’t kill patients with infections that live in hospitals.. thank you for your comments and please feel free to comment again, despite the headline on your blog I do not feel chided at all,your are welcome to pull me up if i am in the wrong, and I welcome your comments, I will read more of your blog and thank you for your intervention.