Ask HN: Is Covid-19 turning into an ad campaign?
Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from companies about Covid-19. Big and small, explaining what they are doing about it.
Are we just turning it into a huge advertisement campaign?
Are we just turning it into a huge advertisement campaign?
It’s like... yes, we all know there is a virus. It doesn’t need to be reiterated by every single brand with your email in a newsletter-of-the-month gimmicky marketing email sent from Hubspot to funnel leads into Salesforce.
Honestly, it’s like watching social media accounts trying to 1-up each other on telling a story about how they are really a better person than everybody else for chiming in on a tragedy with a self-centered post. It’s white knighting a serious situation for self-gratification.
I was joking last month about "sealing ourselves into our apartments with plastic and duct tape" but it isn't funny when people are going to be advocating that later this week.
I'm "at risk" and keeping my daughter home from school this week even though they're staying open; the social panic is worrying me far more than the disease. People are ready to accept the unthinkable already and there's voices saying "data isn't important we have to act fast!" ... that could end badly.