We should just pay people to get vaccinated $1000 is probably same ball park as the annual economic damage of flu and covid post 2022 - ThreadSky

starshine.bsky.social • 1 day ago

We should just pay people to get vaccinated

$1000 is probably same ball park as the annual economic damage of flu and covid post 2022

Reposted from 🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮

can't wait for us to have effective cancer treatments for pancreatic and colon cancer but they're banned in the us because they're vaccinations

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emdashel.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s not the worst idea, if we just had the will.

babblingfringe.bsky.social•1 day ago

We could probably swing it to 1k and a protected day off after to recover just to really square things up.

unormal.bsky.social•1 day ago

doge savings will easily pay for this!! [crying]

xaiax.net•1 day ago

I proposed paying people to get vaccinated as soon as vaccines had become available and there was so much “no they should just be smart enough to do it 😡”.

Like, is your goal to get people vaccinated or to convince people to want to get vaccinated because that’s not the same thing.

starshine.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same and like I Get It, i too think opening a bank account should be contingent of vaccination status but this seems much more viable

xaiax.net•1 day ago

Imagine what we could do with issuing savings bonds for behavior we want to encourage.

“Hey you voted, here’s your commemorative $17.76 bill.”

(And then people wouldn’t even spend them so there’d be no inflationary effect)

tomek-here.bsky.social•1 day ago

the DOGE refund is going to be $14.88 isn't it

xaiax.net•1 day ago

Or $420.69

jcmrva.bsky.social•1 day ago

...in a memecoin.

xaiax.net•1 day ago

Uugghhhhhhhh god damn it so true.

xaiax.net•1 day ago

There’s tremendous wisdom to be gained from World Of Warcraft rebranding their “XP penalty from being logged in too long” to “Bonus XP After Resting”.

janee.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have a hunch if you offered it as “get 17.76 off your taxes if you provide proof of voting” people might get a kick out of that.

xaiax.net•1 day ago

A competent government would hire me to implement all the dark patterns I have learned over the years to manipulate the public into doing the right thing.

Being an organ donor would get you a $1000 deduction on your taxes every year forever. (It’s not a tax on people that don’t do it. 🤫)