Posted on 05/21/2021 11:53:39 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...What DeWine understands, and that many of us do not, is that the possibility of an economic windfall might be able to accomplish what other modes of persuasion could not. For whatever reason that gives him this insight, he seems to intuitively understand the cultural power that lotteries hold in our state. On Twitter yesterday, somebody noted that “Ohioans do love a lottery.” I guess they do. I guess we’ll see.
We are now confronted with the fascinating idea that the statistical improbability of winning a lottery might be the motivator that moves otherwise resistant Ohioans to get the vaccine. It’s hard for me to grasp, but if it works, it works. Rumsfeld said, “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
This is about shots in arms, not ethics or a sense of community....
We’ve been told that the problem with vaccine uptake isn’t the “biological science,” but “behavioral science,” which is just a hifalutin way of saying “the vaccine is safe and effective, but people just can’t seem to bring themselves to do the right thing.”
For those keeping score at home: The rational actors who are not reentering the workforce for poverty wages must be nudged by cutting off unemployment supports. Vaccine resisters, on the other hand, must be tantalized by the prospects of a million-dollar windfall. Got it.
And so we turn to a lottery to see if we can turn a corner with vaccine uptake in Ohio. Shots in arms are shots in arms. And anyway — in case I didn’t make it clear already — it’s federal money, so who cares?...
(Excerpt) Read more at ohiocapitaljournal.com ...
Go to the 28:20 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnnG7PULf04
I don't think the lottery says much good about us if mothers are making their kids get it for the slight chance at a scholarship at the expense of bodily integrity.
It will be funny, not to mention nice, if it turns out that the deplorables and blacks-- the same population that are stereotyped as being lottery ticket lovers-- turn out to be able to do a rational risk reward calculation and do not go for the vax, especially when it turns out that in all truth and actuality one would stand a better chance of winning a million bucks via the vax lottery compared to buying a Lotto ticket.
But with a Lotto ticket one only risks losing a buck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnnG7PULf04
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Go to 28:20 for vax stats.
A lottery will only incentivize the profoundly stupid - and the profoundly stupid need no incentive - they are already lining up to serve as human lab rats.
For your consideration.
I don’t know if this is really Ohio-related, since so many states have announced they are doing the lotter thing, but I do cite and give a link to the Ohio De-Presser.
It seem criminal to incentivize getting a vaccine to win a lottery.
What’s the odds of getting the vaccine and winning the lottery and then dying of complications due to the vaccine?
No thanks.
Was surprised by a new sign at our City Market today, which has been very loose recently about masks.
Big red letters: MASK REQUIRED.
Small letters: Fully vaccinated customers not required to wear masks.
No masks needed then, either way. So it’s all good.
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What the Vax-a-Million says about us
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/05/20/what-the-vax-a-million-says-about-us/ ^ | May 20, 2021 | Dan Skinner
Posted on 5/21/2021, 2:53:39 PM by CheshireTheCat
Another benefit. The number of OH residents who won't get vaccinated, even for a chance at a million dollars, is very large. With the lottery, that's clear.
I'm actually impressed that DeWine decided to do something dramatic instead of worrying about the reaction from media and other pols (who didn't have any better ideas)
Dan Skinner is Associate Professor of Health Policy at Ohio University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, located on the Dublin campus. He is the host of Prognosis Ohio, a health care podcast produced in collaboration with WCBE, a Central Ohio NPR affiliate.
It’s Federal Money, so who cares?
I guess you can’t really expect any better from a professor of health policy and a NPR contributor.
It just doesn’t get much more Lefty and Big Government than that.
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