Posted on 05/20/2021 6:22:39 PM PDT by matt04
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a new incentive to get vaccinated Thursday, telling New Yorkers they can get a free lottery ticket once they get the shot in their arm.
"If you were undecided about getting a vaccine or dubious about getting a vaccine, now you have an added bonus. Don't miss this chance," Cuomo said during a press conference.
The program dubbed "Vax and Scratch" means that anyone who gets the coronavirus vaccine from one of the 10 state-run sites from May 24 to May 28 enters into the chance of winning $5 million.
There are 13 different levels of winnings, ranging from $20 to $50,000 for the second prize.
"The chances of winning something are one in nine," Cuomo said. "It’s a situation where everyone wins."
Vaccinations in New York have slowed down, with the state reporting an average of 123,806 daily shots over the last two weeks – a roughly 40 percent drop from the daily average in mid-April, reported a local news outlet.
New York has reported that nearly 63 percent of its population has received at least the first dose of the vaccine, with 43 percent having completed both rounds of shots. Both figures have surpassed the national average, which is at 38 percent of Americans fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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“Vax and Scratch” sounds like a game he forced his female employees to play with Little Andy.
Which family members are they going to give the winning cards to?
This isn’t random balls being drawn.
Did you know that governors can now take tax payer money and use it to pay out a lottery for the winners they get to choose?
Where are the lawsuits?
What odds are associated with such a gamble? Would people be better off buying a lottery ticket?
Guiney pigs
if that doesn’t make the ones what already got the vax feel like suckers... shoulda waited
fucuomo.
I’m just waiting for the day that LaShonda and Marquien show up at one of the state-run sites doing a snatch-and-grab because they’re ‘entitled’ to tickets because they already got their jabs.
It’s funny how out of most of his peers, Billy Dee seems to be one of the best.
But But But Tish is busy getting Do and Trump.
This state is a fetid sewer without any treatment.
He would get better results giving out cigarettes and pot.
Similar BS in Ohio. When Dems resort to this coercion / manipulation to lure Americans into getting Jabbed with EXPERIMENTAL substances where the PHARMA’s have been exempted from ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER the LOGICAL person must question WHY?
I live in New York State and never play the lottery, and there’s no way I’ll be playing Cuomo’s lottery either.
A bribe????
They now have to be bribed to get vaccinated.
Sorry I still don't trust them. I want my bribe in advance or nothing doing.
You should've held out...SUCKERS!!!
ROTFLMAO!
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