Irish Examiner view: Campaigns to change minds over matters

We must ensure that Covid and climate change and economic need don’t become jumbled together

German Health Minister Jens Spahn delivered the North-Rhine Westphalian version of “scaring the bejaysus” out of people when he warned darkly that his fellow countrymen and women would be

When the German health minister Jens Spahn warned darkly that his fellow countrymen and women would be
“vaccinated, cured, or dead” by the end of this winter, he was delivering the North-Rhine Westphalian version of “scaring the bejaysus” out of people.

Or to put it another, less brutal way, attempting to win hearts and minds to affect a change of behaviour.