We are going to step on mines, why not? We assume that, at this point, many organizations and entities related to public health are already willing to do whatever it takes to increase vaccination against the new coronavirus.
I am not going to be the one to explain the anti-vaccine phenomenon, it is something repetitive, boring and typical in the history of humanity. The less attention paid to them, the better.
The point is that, within the actions to encourage vaccination and increase the rates of protected people, the official account of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healthattached to the American Johns Hopkins University, has published a video to call for vaccination using the game Super Mario Kart of claim.
The strange video that compares the boosters of the vaccines with those of Super Mario Kart
The truth is that the video, of little more than 30 seconds, it is not wasted and you can see it on his own Twitter.
There’s evidence that a booster dose reduces a person’s likelihood of being infected with SARS-CoV-2.
That’s super like Mario, but less likely doesn’t mean impossible.
In general, boosters reduce symptom severity and duration, and reduce transmission: https://t.co/rF2sQBDdNM pic.twitter.com/x1ybm0bCXy
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) January 13, 2022
It all starts with a typical game race inside something they call the covid-cup (yes, seriously) and with the motto Let’s get Boosted, that is, we are going to reinforce ourselves. This refers to the booster of the vaccine, that is, the reinforcement of it, making a play on words with those of the racing game.
There we see Mario starting to run when, Suddenly, the Omicron variant appears from behind, chasing him..
That’s when he hits a jump ramp that puts booster, symbol that you get the booster dose of the vaccine. By doing so, Mario manages to block and get rid of the Omicron variant that he has behind him and wants to reach him.
Finally, our favorite plumber appears with the pixelated glasses typical of the meme in which you look like a gangster after doing something spectacular, plus a new call to get that vaccination booster.
The reaction of Twitter users to the video
If the important thing is to talk about the subject, the video has achieved it with more than 30,000 likes and about 13,000 retweetsalmost half of them, cited.
And the reaction of the users has been curious, because the most outstanding tweets, instead of starting with the typical senseless ember of the anti-vaccines (who have no more life than to follow any mention on networks to come and drop their unbearable badge) they emphasize that the video is quite crappythe truth.
Not because the editing is bad per se, but for the concept, which gives enough embarrassed alien or, as they say now, cringe.
From pitying the one who was forced to edit the video, to waiting for Nintendo to hit with a complaint for copyright (doesn’t appear to have officially endorsed this), focus more on perplexity and the fact that, in reality, only when Mario takes the banana does the virus disappear.
Anyway. I suppose that, at this point, everything is worth to see if we leave this pandemic behind and we can go on to the Third World War or the alien invasion, that things accumulate for us.
