What’s up with These Commercials?

A view from our balcony. Camelback, manmade lake.

 

Black ducks? Black geese? That congregate around the water.

 

A view from our parking lot at the Camelback mountains with a peaking out of sunset.

We are here, vacationing in Scottsdale, Arizona. I certainly haven’t had much time to watch any television, but my husband is a TV addict, so that doesn’t mean while I’m working away on my computer that I don’t hear what’s going on in the background. The old cowboy shows he loves to watch in reruns bypass my ears as I click away on the keyboard, but I can’t help but notice what every single commercial ad I hear is selling – healthcare for ailments, disease, and death.

 

Okay, granted, he’s watching old reruns on special cable channels, and I can’t help but wonder if these commercial ads are tailored to these specialty channels with shows from 50 years ago, but holy smokes, it’s pretty morbid.

 

I’ve noticed quite a few of these ads on local channels as well, just not as plentiful. Still, I’m really amazed. I’m a person who believes in the the law of attraction: You get what you focus on and what surrounds you. I find that hearing these ads running constantly every 5 minutes or so on commercial break, quite disturbing.

 

Here are just a sampling of ads I’ve heard:

 

Cancer treatment ads for a multitude of forms of cancer.
Catheter ads for cowboys, with descriptions of how easy to insert.
Ads for many types of prescription drugs and clinics.
Get new teeth, and smile again.
Medical alert buttons in all wearable forms.
Plan your funeral.
Life/accidental death insurance plans.
New improved colostomy bags.
Stroke and heart attack disease screening appointments.
Faulty birth control class action suits.

 

What ever happened to good old fashioned laundry detergent commercials?

 

DGKaye©2016