Should we pay people to get vaccinated?

Creepy old man wrote:

I live in a large midwestern rustbelt city. Severe vaccine hesitancy locally in our lower-income residents. What are the ramifications of paying people -- say $100 -- to get vaccinated? Seems that this would be cheaper long term than dealing with potential covid patients down the road. Saves business money due to less sick days. Etc. Could it work?

It should be $10,000 per person on the first day after full vaccination confirmed and then it should drop by 100$ a day. You would see a lot of antivaccers change their mind.

Have to admit, I have had this same thought as well. Not particularly for the same reasons, however. In my mind, I wasn't thinking about the lower-income households, rather I was considering the anti-vaxxers. Money could be a great incentive to get the vaccine, and although it's not really fair to the people who are already vaccinated, in the long run it will be worth it to return our country back to normal as quickly as possible (safely, of course). It's a gamble, certainly.

var packRunner = []; wrote:

Have to admit, I have had this same thought as well. Not particularly for the same reasons, however. In my mind, I wasn't thinking about the lower-income households, rather I was considering the anti-vaxxers. Money could be a great incentive to get the vaccine, and although it's not really fair to the people who are already vaccinated, in the long run it will be worth it to return our country back to normal as quickly as possible (safely, of course). It's a gamble, certainly.

Probably needs to be $200. Hard-core anti-vaxxers still won't be motivated but it would draw in many that are on the fence, as well as those that have just not bothered, especially the low income.

You could still pay the people who are already vaccinated if they can provide acceptable proof.

As a republican I say no, because almost all government spending to me is dumb. Instead allow people vaccinated to stop wearing a dang mask. Make there some incentive for better enjoyment of life once vaccinated. No more masks, allow them to go to sporting events without a mask, allow life to get back to normal. If it's only the vaccinated people going back to normal then the spread won't suddenly spread a ton. If 10% of people got covid in the past 14 months without vaccines then if the vaccines are 95% effective it won't matter much if those people are occasionally near each other without a mask.

I will say there are a lot of stupid people out there thinking the vaccines are bad. Just like a lot of stupid people out there thinking covid is the worst possible thing and will kill them.

Instead, we should give old and fat people vodka, cigarettes and pain pills and pay them to not get the vaccine. That way working class people might have a chance at receiving social security when they get old.

Yeah! Bonus if they vax their kids. Pro-natalism is here!

We should use a stick approach. The unvaccinated shouldn't be allowed out of the country, on any federal property, receive a large tax penalty, etc.

will do anything for a buck wrote:

var packRunner = []; wrote:

Have to admit, I have had this same thought as well. Not particularly for the same reasons, however. In my mind, I wasn't thinking about the lower-income households, rather I was considering the anti-vaxxers. Money could be a great incentive to get the vaccine, and although it's not really fair to the people who are already vaccinated, in the long run it will be worth it to return our country back to normal as quickly as possible (safely, of course). It's a gamble, certainly.

Probably needs to be $200. Hard-core anti-vaxxers still won't be motivated but it would draw in many that are on the fence, as well as those that have just not bothered, especially the low income.

You could still pay the people who are already vaccinated if they can provide acceptable proof.

Speaking as someone that’s not anti vax, but sees no need for healthy people to get vaccinated, $200 wouldn’t do anything to convince me to go get one. For $10,000, I would, but anything less wouldn’t be worth the trouble to me.

Kvothe wrote:

We should use a stick approach. The unvaccinated shouldn't be allowed out of the country, on any federal property, receive a large tax penalty, etc.

The people I'm talking about don't travel, don't go to federal property, and probably don't pay much in taxes. They are, however, critical people who work retail, restaurants, and all sorts of things where being vaccinated is a good thing. Hesitancy could be due to thinking they'll get sick and miss work, mis-information, who knows. Pay them for a day off to get the J&J jab? An 8 hour day at $15 per hour would be $120.

old news wrote:

will do anything for a buck wrote:

Probably needs to be $200. Hard-core anti-vaxxers still won't be motivated but it would draw in many that are on the fence, as well as those that have just not bothered, especially the low income.

You could still pay the people who are already vaccinated if they can provide acceptable proof.

Speaking as someone that’s not anti vax, but sees no need for healthy people to get vaccinated, $200 wouldn’t do anything to convince me to go get one. For $10,000, I would, but anything less wouldn’t be worth the trouble to me.

So I guess you wouldn't do it if you were offered $9,500. There will always be some that hold out.

Harambe wrote:

Yeah! Bonus if they vax their kids. Pro-natalism is here!

It'll be awesome when the kids get real sick from the vaccine.

Lots of people are getting sick from the vaccines.

Many quite seriously.

A lady is staying with us, got her 2nd shot about a week ago, and has been sick since.

Can she pass the vaccine sickness onto others?

Where does this money come from? And what about the boosters that will be needed? You paying for that too?

Give $100 and a much larger guarantee that if they get ill they will be covered, if they die their heirs win $$$$$$$. By the way , I don't care who get's vaccinated.

Since a large number of the "I'm not getting the Covid vaccine" seem to lean Republican, why doesn't the US offer a "Guns for the Vaccine" program.

Win win. More people get vaccinated and the Republicans get one of the 3 things they care about.. a gun

Get fully vaccinated and approved to buy a gun and purchase a gun and you will be reimbursed up to a certain amount ($300?).

No need to pay them. Simply allow businesses to require proof of vaccination for people to use their services and the problem ill go away.

Want to ride an airplane, subway, or bus? Show your proof of vaccination.

Want to go to a sporting event or concert? Show your proof of vaccination.

Want to attend school? Show your proof of vaccination (or homeschool your kids).

Want to shop at certain stores? Show your proof of vaccination.

Want to travel across international borders? Show your proof of vaccination.

When life becomes too restricted, people will get vaccinated. Only Ted Kaczynski-like hermits would be able to exist.

Vaccinated in January for free wrote:

No need to pay them. Simply allow businesses to require proof of vaccination for people to use their services and the problem ill go away.

Want to ride an airplane, subway, or bus? Show your proof of vaccination.

Want to go to a sporting event or concert? Show your proof of vaccination.

Want to attend school? Show your proof of vaccination (or homeschool your kids).

Want to shop at certain stores? Show your proof of vaccination.

Want to travel across international borders? Show your proof of vaccination.

When life becomes too restricted, people will get vaccinated. Only Ted Kaczynski-like hermits would be able to exist.

I seem to remember another society that required citizens to show their papers on demand.