[grania]

It was a bold move. DeWine is no wimp about worrying about criticism. It's less annoying than the propaganda/ads were. The ads were subsidizing TV and Radio stations. Better the money go to five OH residents than media manipulators, basically who were paid off to spread the agenda. And if it got those who were going to get the vaccine anyway, but not until they needed to, to be vaccinated, terrific.

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)

[Pontiac]

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?

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.