UK Gov’t Hires Men To Stand In Public With TV On Head For Pandemic Propaganda
If 1984 hasn’t arrived in America just yet, it certainly has taken over in the UK. The picture says it all: roaming Teletubbies with TVs on their shoulders proclaiming the latest COVID propaganda from the Ministry of Truth. Bizarre. ⁃ Technocracy News & Trends Editor Patrick Wood
In one of the most desperate and bizarre moves yet, a local government in the UK has begun recruiting men to walking the streets with TVs strapped over their heads, supposedly to help police during a highly unpopular lockdown.
Bradford Council in Yorkshire announced their new ‘iWalkers’ scheme, where local council saw staff and volunteers are deployed onto the streets with a 19-inch screen weighing 18 lbs, mounted on their shoulders.
According to reports, the program ran for two days before it began to go horribly wrong. The government scheme was so ridiculous, residents thought it might have been satire at first, or a prank, not believing that the local government had lost the plot to such a degree. When they realized the plan was actually a real government initiative, the public backlash was severe; embarrassed council officials panicked and removed their Facebook post detailing their ‘exciting new program.’
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A number of outrageous comments, both in person and online, were hurled at the walking Robocop-like human propaganda digital billboards.
These real-life Teletubbies were supposed to be walking the city and town streets, wearing masks, while their TVs would be pushing out government propaganda on COVID – designed by government behavioural insights team and applied behavioural psychologists – to nudge residents into tighter lockdown compliance, and to keep the public abreast of minute-to-minute ever-changing “coronavirus rules and restrictions.”
According to reports, the cost of Bradford’s COVID Teletubbies is being paid for through government funding of “Covid-19 communications.”
Local government officials denied they had deleted their new initiative because of public embarrassment, and instead claimed it was suddenly taken down because of public comments that supposedly “crossed the line into abuse of people who are working hard to help residents and workers in Bradford District stay safe and stop the spread of the virus.”
Sourced from Technocracy News & Trends
Image: UK’s bizarre ‘Robocop-like’ walking propaganda digital billboards (Image Credit: Gomo Digital)
