Opinion: Unvaccinated People Should Be Offered Cash To Take The Vaccine
Washington Post, By Charles Lane, July 20, 2021.
In the bizarro world known as covid-19-era America, the people most suspicious of a lifesaving vaccine seem to include millions who supported President Donald Trump, whose administrations proudest achievement was to back development of that very medicine at warp speed. Trump himself got the shot!
Non-Trumpist Americans are refusing the vaccine, too, even though near-guaranteed immunity against a disease that has killed more than 600,000 people in the U.S. alone would seem to constitute a pretty strong incentive to get it. And so it is understandable that President Biden and his aides are blasting those who are spreading anti-vax misinformation and conspiracy theories. Understandable, too, are calls to abandon persuasion in favor of coercive mandates, such as demanding proof of vaccination to enter public places.
In all of this, there has been far too little creative thought given to a potentially powerful means of herding the last stragglers over the vaccine finish line: financial incentives or, if you prefer, bribery. Its true that large employers such as Dollar General and Amtrak have offered workers a couple of hours pay to get vaccinated. Purdue University gave vaccinated students lottery tickets for a chance to win $9,992 in tuition relief.
Ohio enrolled the newly vaccinated in a $1 million lottery. Anheuser-Busch passed out free beer. The Biden administration has asked all employers to offer their workers paid time off to get vaccinated, and extended an offsetting tax credit for small- and medium-size companies that do so. These efforts undoubtedly help explain how 56 percent of the U.S. population including two-thirds of adults has been vaccinated so far...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/20/it-may-be-time-start-incentivizing-unvaccinated-with-cash/
MOMFUDSKI
(5,442 posts)be offered a firm date by which to get the vaccine. If, after that, they wind up with Covid in the hospital they pull out their health ins card and will be billed for any and all treatment. They understand money if nothing else.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,486 posts)We have to pay people to be responsible citizens? Nah, just shut the unvaccinated out of every part of public life. France has the right idea, we should follow that model.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,442 posts)with the tac you would take also.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)I isolated.
I distanced.
I masked up.
I got vaccinated.
Now I'm wearing a mask again to protect the unvaccinated.
NO, MUTHER FUCKER, IF YOU AREN'T VACINATED STAY THE FUCK HOME.
If you want to re-join society get a test every time you leave home. At your own cost. Or just get the Goddam shot.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)I don't really remember what, where, or when such things existed, but it sounds like Catholic School...should be about right.
appalachiablue
(41,103 posts)in the Hawaiian Islands. A friend from college took a position there with the Natl. Park Service in the 1980s, 90s though I never had a chance to ask him about it. In 1969 the isolation of leprosy law was lifted but some people stayed on according to this CNN article.
Defiant anti vaxxers are already screeching about 'civil rights.' And they're laboratories for variants, endangering the entire country. A toxic mess.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/health/leprosy-kalaupapa-hawaii/index.html
RainCaster
(10,842 posts)I have no more fucks to give for these clowns.
Make the announcement that in 6 weeks we will send all our extra vaccine to Africa. That's enough time to get both doses.
Then follow through with the threat. If the conservative media doesn't like that, they can buy the vaccines and administer it themselves.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,442 posts)too! I am now asking point blank if they have had the vaccine and, if not, telling them they are not welcome anywhere near me. Trying to make them feel like the lepers they are. Taking a big stand can't hurt.
Blue 808
(1,542 posts)I believe there should be another round of $1400.00 checks... if you're vaccinated you get the check... you want the money get the shot... no shot.. no money.. plus... if you're vaccinated and you get infected again.. your treatment is free.. if you're unvaccinated.. the bill is on you...
I have no more f*cks to give for the MAGAt minions...
wnylib
(21,346 posts)Reward people who did the right thing and leave out those who didn't, but who could get included if they vax up.