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The ads on TV lately fall into four categories:

Regular companies (cars, food, etc.) telling us all the wonderful things they're doing to help us in these "unusual times".
"PSAs" telling us how we'll all get through this if we wash our hands every 5 minutes, avoid all human interaction if you aren't wearing a hazmat suit, or, better yet, stay in our caves until the government says it's okay, most likely in 2021 or 2022.
Ads for insurance companies, each more inane and insulting than the next.
The pandering "19" donation ads. Every charity from ASPCA to St. Jude's is running them, with the sad music and the voiceovers telling us that for just $19/month you can help so and so from such and such.

I can understand why the big real advertisers are wanting to cut back or cancel their commitments. What ads they do show have to be do everything but sell their product, which is what I thought advertising was supposed to do in the first place.

All I can say is thank goodness for MeTV, the Game Show Network, and H&I. A nice mix of old crime shows where the police aren't a bunch of PC pansies, fun old game shows, and other classic TV from the last millennium. A nice break from the endless shows telling us all of the "facts" about the Kung Flu, or the "let's visit the celebrities in their multi-million dollar homes" shows.