The Case for COVID Propaganda

Satirical take on the UK campaign slogan from the beginning of lockdown in 2020

Propaganda — can it have a positive purpose, especially in the case of a common enemy — a pandemic? The definitions of propaganda presented by dictionaries and encyclopaedias commonly hold negative connotations, but should it be deployed in the current national and global crisis?

Undoubtedly we see propaganda every day, even when we are not in a state of declared war. The output of the right-wing press and Fox…