Old Man Yells At Cloud.

https://memepediadankmemes.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Man_Yells_at_Cloud

They know can't broadcast it.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-joe-biden-says-challenge-facing-us-over-covid-19-is-immense-and-growing-despite-new-vaccine-hopes-12128662

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54875485

Yet they're choosing to broadcast it anyway.

https://www.bbc.com/editorialguidelines/guidance/vulnerable-contributors

As with King Canute & his courtiers. It's certainly a valid comparison.

What with COVID-19 being a droplet borne disease.

Which is why it is killed by heat. Just as President Trump has been saying all along.

Well, technically it's;

"As Effective As Just Doing Nothing."

https://us.cnn.com/2020/11/09/health/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-effective/index.html

But what's life, without a little room for rhetorical colour.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SinOJQT5J4g (I Ride an Old Paint, Woody Guthrie, a/v, Smithsonian Folkways).