Opinion by Hal Brown
Krispy Kreme offers free glazed donut to those who show Covid vaccine card
Obviously it may be the smallest story on a day following yet another mass shooting, but MSNBC devoted a minute to this story which is also being covered in Yahoo! News and NBC News and elsewhere.
It piqued my curiosity so I did a little follow-up and looked up Krispy Kreme tweets with replies on Twitter and found that there was at least one person railing against Krispy Kreme for their offer of a free donut throughout 2021 for any customer who shows their vaccination card.
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I discovered there was at least one naysayer, Troy, whose tweet against Krispy Kreme (above) prompted what for him I suspect is a record number of replies. Here’s my reply: .
Others were more interesting. Some just attacked Krispy Kreme for selling a sugary sweet:
Here’s a head-scratcher from a football coach who demands his players eat red meat. His Twitter page has 202.4K followers and the self-proclaimed legend has his own website.
This tweet needs no comment:
Many of the attacks are about how bad Krispy Kreme donuts are for heath:
* Show your vaccine card and get your first free dose to diabetes…
* In order to help fight this deadly pandemic, we'll help contribute to the number one cause of death in the USA: Heart Disease
* If covid don’t kill you, being super fat will. Nice work guys!! Great Marketing Idea!
*Because if Covid-19 didn't kill you, Krispy Kreme will try with Diabetes…
*First I thought@krispykreme giving free donuts to the vaccinated is as useful as giving away flea infested rats during the bubonic plague since metabolic dysfunction makes this virus deadly. But then I realized it's their customers who need the vaccine most. Carry on.
* Wow, this is beyond generous, lol. Let's encourage good health practices by clogging our arteries while bring Krispy Kreme more customers.
* Type II Diabetes in a box, not to mention High blood pressure, Obesity, Coronary heart disease, Stroke, Osteoarthritis but hey at least you got your shot…
Aside from diabetics who may have to avoid all sugar here’s a fact check about the calories in the original Krispy Kreme: it has 190 calories which would take 53 minutes of walking to burn off.
Fat |
11 g |
Carbs |
22 g |
Fiber |
0 g |
Protein |
3 g |
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Here are some more replies (Click to enlarge):
This nursing student makes a good point:
Some people are anti-vaxers:
* Like children, the peasants are being 'rewarded' with some crumbs. Imagine being encouraged/offered/rewarded with 1 free doughnut for taking an experimental vaccine. You couldn't make this sh*t up!
* I didn't think big pharma would get this desperate so quickly that they'd have to hire @krispykreme to shill donuts in exchange for proof of jab
* Like children, the peasants are being 'rewarded' with some crumbs. Imagine being encouraged/offered/rewarded with 1 free doughnut for taking an experimental vaccine. You couldn't make this sh*t up!
* I don't know which is sadder, that you offered this or people are actually excited to get an untested properly vaccine injected into their bodies for a free doughnut.
* My dad and I live hundreds of miles apart. When he comes to see me, one of our traditions is to hit KK once (or twice) during the week. Based on this, for a virus that has sketchy numbers, huge survivability, sketchy science, and an "untried" vaccine...we may be rethinking that.
The people at Krispy Kreme who came up with this may very well be thinking of the saying attributed to Oscar Wilde and Clare Booth Luce, among others:
No good deed goes unpunished.