Get a covid Vaccine and win a million

[AdahnGorion]

Apperently the American State of Ohio, has made an initiative to draw 5 winners (each get a million) from those that have taken a vaccine..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/12/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-seeks-incentivize-covid-vaccines-with-chance-win-1-million/

What is your opinion? is this a good idea or does this actually hinder people from doing similar stuff in the future, because they want a "goodie" to do it?..... I am abit surprised that so many people seems to wanna "skip" vaccines, even more so when they are actually given to "us" freely in some regions of the world.

Please keep too much politics out of this, I want this to focus on the society and people in general, in these dire times.


Update - Here is the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZK2-e37G0


Thank you all for having a friendly debate and a focus on the society and people aspects.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Bribe people to vax up lol. I wish we had 1 Mil draws for the Flu jab, been taking that crap for years for work/health related reasons.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by mforddog:

Originally posted by Darkie:

Please keep too much politics out of this, I want this to focus on the society and people in general, in these dire times.

oh boy that ain't gonna happen.

I am optimistic, there are plenty of non political focus here, so if people actually do want to debate the good parts here or simply weight in what they feel, that is great.

Maybe we might even hear from people that live in Ohio. That would be awesome.

[♛ H🅾T🅼ESS ☢ BTC ETH]

good. everyone should get the jab unless they have a poor immune system

[Tiberius]

Our govt doesnt support any kind of gambling, including lucky-draw event like this.

[TwisterCat]

I'd do that in a second, brilliant idea

[Grynn]

Is that because so few people in Ohio are being vaccinated that they need to be incentivised to do so?
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Just seems like a good way to waste money and blow out the American dollar even more.

[☎need4naiim☎]

Instead of making the vaccines mandatory, spread these practices instead. I am not surprised this idea came up from Ohio US, whereas Covid came up from Wuhan PRC.

Freedom gives you opportunities, restrictions take life away from you.

[agu]

Honestly that would look suspicious. The vaccine's benefit should be enough for you wanting to get it. Adding more stuff on top just gives more reasons to the doubtful

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by H🅾T🅼eSS:

good. everyone should get the jab unless they have a poor immune system

That's actually a valid excuse? In that case, I have a "poor immune system." Now people will leave me alone, right?

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by MikeBob2013:

I've known (and loved) a lot of awesome people from Ohio in my lifetime, although I've never actually been there. I think it's because they all had the good sense to move away from there. 😆

Rofl

Originally posted by Aguker:

Honestly that would look suspicious. The vaccine's benefit should be enough for you wanting to get it. Adding more stuff on top just gives more reasons to the doubtful

That is my personal take on it all. But some people don´t see it that way and are scared, if "luring" them are a good incentitive, I don´t know, thus the reason I wanted the debate.

Originally posted by Grynn:

Is that because so few people in Ohio are being vaccinated that they need to be incentivised to do so?
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Just seems like a good way to waste money and blow out the American dollar even more.

Yes it is because so few people get vaccinated in Ohio, so instead of wasting money on other incentitives, they want "lottery" instead.

[secuda]

I wouldent care that much of it if my region did that, not because i am against the vacinel but my chanse to win wouldent be that big.

[Triple G]

1. What about those people who can´t get a vaccine because of various reasons?

2. I´m personally not a fond of "here we give You the chance to get rich fast and easy." and then say something about free will or choice. (it´s ofc debatable if it´s "worth it" in this case, but imho some "we just give You money to change You opinion" isn´t the best approach if it should be about reasons - and personal preferences.)

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by secuda:

I wouldent care that much of it if my region did that, not because i am against the vacinel but my chanse to win wouldent be that big.

Indeed chances are so very low, so if that is all that takes to get people to go there, why not just go there in the first place. I actually think that winning that lottery, might be greater, than actually dying or getting (seriously) ill from the vaccine..

It just makes little sense to me, as to why it can be an "incentitive" maybe I just don´t understand, becuase I have a different cultural standpoint.

Anyway.. hopefully more gets vaccines, no matter the way they do it.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by temporary name:

State-sponsored population lotteries are kind of popular in some of the less-populous states.

It's a way to boost tourism too.

This seems pretty tone-deaf though, since it can be interpreted as hedging their bets on the virus not going away and the state becoming attractive because of its lower population density.

So it is not an uncommon practice in the US. That makes sense then.
Can you give other examples? where lottery is used?

[Radene]

I think this is the wrong way to get people to get vaccinated. And it's prone to some significant backlash.