Ohio Woman Wins A Million Dollars For Being Vaccinated

[appalachiablue]

Source: NPR

Abbigail Bugenske of Silverton near Cincinnati is Ohio's first million-dollar winner in a series of lotteries intended to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Joseph Costello of Englewood near Dayton won a full college scholarship in the lottery for people under age 18 who've been vaccinated.

Amid dropping vaccine demand in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine announced the five weekly drawings of $1 million open to residents who've received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The scholarship lottery for teenagers offers five full, four-year scholarships to a public university in Ohio - room and board included.

"The number of Ohioans who get the vaccine will determine what our future looks like, particularly this coming winter," DeWine said in a statewide address Wednesday. "Everyone has a stake in more Ohioans getting vaccinated."...

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/13/996445109/ohio-raises-the-stakes-to-boost-vaccinations-offers-5-1-million-drawings

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[CottonBear]

1. This is a great idea! GA should do this, but Gov. KKKemp wouldn't. nt

[DURHAM D]

2. I think it is weird to pay cash to adults for doing the right thing.

I have no problem with the scholarships.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. I don't know...

...The money is earmarked for ridding the state of Covid , and the best way to do that is "roll up our sleeves" as they say. Vaccines went up significantly when this program was announced, and will likely continue over the next 4 weeks.

They could have spent it on commercials and PSAs, but we know that won't work with half the state.

[appalachiablue]

7. Righto, money motivates Americans

and most people. Sadly you're correct about the influence of PSAs, commericals.

Have The Hunger Games arrived?

[Rebl2]

20. I agree

with you. Scholarships are fine, but adults-really! Do the adult thing and get vaccinated for Covid and when flu season comes around get a flu shot.

[FarPoint]

4. Costello...

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He lives down the street from me...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. And to think I did it for free.

Damn.

[appalachiablue]

6. Lol, good one!

[orleans]

8. same here. (and i live in illinois) (lol) nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. On the up side, I did get to go into two

stores today I (Kohl's and Target) without a mask because I'm fully vaccinated. Hooray for me!

[COL Mustard]

15. Glad You Are Fully Vaccinated

Please keep wearing your mask, indoors, at least for a while until the anti-vaxxers have either gotten immunity or have died off. I'm also fully vaccinated and past the two-week point, but I still wear it when I go into stores. It just provides an extra level of protection against the (admittedly rare) breakthrough case.


YMMV

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Nope. Not going to keep on wearing my mask indoors

since I'm fully vaccinated. The "breakthrough" cases are so rare and so mild, the CDC has stopped counting them.

I really wish people would stop obsessively sanitizing everything. It's no necessary, to say the least.

[moriah]

23. I wear them if the employees are being forced to wear them.

It's air-conditioned and I was lucky enough to order some good ones that have lasted through all the washings I've given them, from an Etsy crafter, that fit my face very well. And I don't wear glasses in public (probably do need a set of prescription reading glasses, though) so I don't have lens-fog to deal with.

Yes, I'm two weeks past my second shot, and I'm confident enough in the vaccine's ability to protect me from serious illness that eventually I will probably come to the decision that if other adults aren't vaccinated it's on them if I don't know I've got a breakthrough infection and am out.

Given my state's weather patterns, I think my tolerance for being wiling to mask when not under AC and my tolerance for people who refuse to get the vaccine despite the fact a lot of us have been guinea pigs and no reports of third arms growing, etc. will probably end in August.

[Sherman A1]

10. Nice but, I got a free pen and some stickers

Pretty hard to beat.

[piddyprints]

16. I didn't even get those.

Just a vaccination ... but I am so happy to have gotten it!

[Brother Buzz]

24. Pfft, I got a free, yet unclaimed Krispy Kreme donut

[Sherman A1]

25. Well, that beats the hell out of a pen and stickers

You win.

[Roy Rolling]

11. Dumb

Sorry, I’m not buying it. A million dollar cash prize for doing your civic duty is a ridiculous waste of money.

It makes a mockery of everyone else already vaccinated. Next pandemic, people will wait for the million dollar cash prize before acting.

[LisaL]

12. You don't understand how it works.

Anyone already vaccinated in OH could sign up.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Bet they would have vaccinated more @ $300 each

or a tax credit.

[LisaL]

18. Yea, the chances of getting a million is about one in a million.

Would have made more sense to me to have smaller prizes so more people can get some money.

[COL Mustard]

14. I'm Not Sure It's A Good Idea To Name Names

Talk about having all kinds of new friends........

[Wuddles440]

19. Actually...

one of the conditions that participants' agree to is the public disclosure of their name if they win.

[Rebl2]

21. In Missouri

with our state lotteries you have to disclose your name to the public.

[twodogsbarking]

17. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Don't expect rational actions.