Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Wednesday announced an eye-popping incentive for adults in the state to get vaccinated — a lottery later this month where adults who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can win $1 million.
First prize is a one-way ticket out of Ohio.
I think this is a great idea.
Is it open to all residents who have been vaccinated, or just to those who are vaccinated after this lottery was announced?
Oh goody. Taxpayers get to pay for assholes to do the right thing. Next up, encouraging people to obey red traffic signals with a lottery for free oil changes.
This is actually a great idea, the anti-science MAGATs with no math skills will probably flock to get their vaccines even though the total number will soon be over 5,000,000. Their logic will be the same as with PowerBall – somebody is going to win and it could be me. Anyone who gets vaccinated solely because of this lottery is an idiot, of course, but there is no shortage of idiots in Ohio and the rest of the US.
Maybe Republican controlled states should have offered a tax credit for get their vaccinations.
“ Compared to mid-April when the U.S. averaged 3.38 million doses administered per day across a week, the current seven-day average is 2.19 million doses per day, according to CDC data.”
2.19 million people per day is still a lot of people. I think it’s possible to over-emphasize the drop off and pay too much attention to loud-mouth idiots and not focus enough on barriers to vaccination among people who don’t go to diners in the middle of the workday
That said, I think incentives to vaccinate are a good idea. This feels a little large, but I can see that there’s an emotional pull to one meeeelion dollars that 10 $100,000 prizes wouldn’t have. Maybe better to have one grand prize draw at the end of the summer and smaller-dollar prizes along the way. Maybe ask a radio station- they get a lot of people to work pretty hard to chase fairly small-dollar prizes.
Of course I agree.
But this is no different than Blue State voters being pro tax increases, (which the donor Blue states will bear the brunt of) in order to promote the general welfare of the the red states.
Literally the blue state were happy to fund redstate healthcare (Medicaid expansion) and they wouldn’t take it so they could try and make Obamacare fail.
Epic… They profess that won’t get the vaccine because 1 in a million people may have complications, but will get the vaccine in order to have a 1 in several million chance at winning a million bucks.
Wait , I thought Ohio had money problems.
It’s one meeelion a week, for five weeks.
The meeelion dollar prize comes from federal covid19 aid money. Better this than giving it to a jared middleman company.
The insanity continues.
Next we will bribe kids to eat their vegetables with french fries.
Worth the watch.
Most effective way to spike demand from MAGATs is to have Biden say that since demand is down we will start sending Vaccines to Africa. Then say this may cause a supply issue for US vaccine supply.
We can use their own racism against them, for the benefit of us all.
It’s money from the federal gov’t, so those in OH need to say thank you to everyone for giving them a chance at $1 M.
You could be spending that much on marketing campaigns easy. So use antivaxxers’ innumeracy against them.
That last group is who these incentive programs are aimed at - - not the vaccine-refusers. But even with the merely hesitant, care must be taken that the carrot does not appear to be or function as a de facto stick, which would defeat its intended purpose. See the concerns of medical ethicists below:
Excited to use this throughout the coming years in my advocacy to conservatives for universal healthcare.
“It would be such a drop in the bucket compared to the ungodly amount of money we’re spending right now,” Justice said during an interview with The Washington Post last month.
Yup. Welcome, comrade.