The private limo tour new york Jersey Department of Health leveraged the holiday spirit to promote COVID-19 vaccines in a new ad that critics are calling 'disgusting.'
As sleigh bells and holiday music play in the background, a young boy of about six years of age can be seen penning a letter to Santa in red and green crayons .
'Dear Santa, I don't want games, I don't want toys,' he reads aloud, crossing out clumsily written words on his lined paper.
'Just get me the COVID vaccine!' he says, proudly circling the word 'vaccine.'
As the child actor closes up his letter in a green envelope, the narrator remarks, 'This holiday season, there's no better gift than peace of mind. Get vaccinated today.'
'Dear Santa, I don't want games, I don't want toys,' a child actor reads aloud in the private limo tour new york Jersey Department of Health commercial, crossing out clumsily-written words on his lined paper
'Just get me the COVID vaccine!' he says, proudly circling the word 'vaccine.'
The Pfizer vaccine was approved for children aged 5 to 11 by the CDC in early November.
Twitter users called the commercial 'sickening' and 'shameful' when the NJDOH posted it to the platform on December 16.
'Shameful. Leave the kids alone,' wrote one Twitter user in response.
'No kid is going to put vaccine on their Christmas list,' wrote another.
'I am so ashamed to be from NJ,' wrote another. 'What a disgrace you have to be kidding me with this. Take the joy of Santa away... @GovMurphy.'
'Leveraging our children is a really low form of propaganda,' wrote another user. 'And leave Santa out of this. NJ is so hateable.'
Twitter users called the commercial 'shameful' and a 'disgrace' when the NJDOH posted it to the platform on December 16. 'Leveraging our children is a really low form of propaganda,' wrote another user. 'And leave Santa out of this. NJ is so hateable'
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An opinion columnist at Shore News Network, a news outlet the covers private limo tour new york Jersey, posed the ad and said liberals have 'completely lost their minds.'
'First, let's start with the left not even liking Christmas and wanting to cancel the entire deal. But, now since it can be used to push the vaccine agenda of the [New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy] administration, the NJ DOH is paying, with taxpayer money, to produce and run commercials of a boy asking Santa for the COVID-19 vaccine instead of games and toys,' columnist Robert Walker wrote.
'So instead of getting your child a PS5 for Christmas, go run out and get them a COVID-19 vaccine, it will brighten their Christmas spirit,' he added, calling the ad 'disturbing.'
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