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Big Bird Gets Vaccinated
Background Information
Big Bird tweeted that he had just gotten his COVID-19 Vaccine. His tweet is announcing that the vaccine will protect him and others and he has always been getting vaccines ever since he was young. The tweet was of course posted via Twitter.
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This is propaganda because
Sesame Street is essentially promoting vaccines to children. Big Bird, who is 6 years old, has been used in the past for child immunization campaigns, tryin to convince parents that their children need to get vaccinated. Facts have shown that children are not at risk for the virus and we should not be pressuring parents and children to get their kids vaccinated against COVID. Conservatives are calling this, "government propaganda."
Source
https://www.fatherly.com/news/big-bird-gets-vaccinated-history-reveals-sesame-streets-long-support-of-vaccines/
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