It turns out that, if you want people to do something they don’t want to do, it’s a good idea to try to persuade them with money.
That’s not exactly a brand new idea, but that was the very unsurprising finding of new research recently conducted in North Carolina that evaluated the effectiveness of a state vaccine enticement program that gave out cold hard cash cards for some who got the shots.
A press release this week from state health officials reads, “The $25 Summer Card pilot program operated by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) was successful in encouraging COVID-19 vaccination, according to a published research letter by authors from NCDHHS, the Advanced Center for COVID-19 Related Disparities at the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute at North Carolina Central University, and the Departments of Biostatistics and of Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.”
A research letter published in a prominent medical journal this week addresses the effectiveness of the state’s “$25 Summer Card Program,” which a lot of people took advantage of.
According to state health officials, the research provides some of the first solid data on programs that use guaranteed financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccination enticement.
During a one-week review period, COVID-19 vaccinations decreased by just 26 percent in clinics that were offering the $25 cards. During that same period, they declined by 51 percent in clinics that weren’t making the same offer. However, it does seem possible that a portion of that 51 percent decline could have been from people who wanted to be vaccinated not going where they wouldn’t get paid and instead going where they would get paid.
The research was conducted in four North Carolina counties where a pilot program was initiated. The state’s program offered a $25 cash card to adults who either received their first dose of one of the three vaccines – or who drove someone to a qualified site to get a vaccination.
The pilot program distributed 2,890 cards to vaccine recipients and 1,374 to drivers.
The $25 Summer Card program later shifted to a program providing $100 cards for some. The $100 Summer Card program wasn’t included in the research, however, it’s probably safe to say that a $100 reward is even more effective in convincing people to get a vaccine where they get paid rather than where they don’t get paid.
“Within a week, this well-designed incentive program halved the drop in COVID-19 vaccination that North Carolina was experiencing,” said Dr. Noel Brewer, with the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. “Using guaranteed cash incentives is a best practice, recommended by the CDC. It builds on 70 years of psychological research showing that rewards are most effective when delivered immediately after the behavior.”
Roll up your sleeves and follow the troll.
The jab will one day take it’s toll.
How easily you’re swayed – do what you’re told.
And in the end to sell your soul.
Stupid is stupid does
Anti-science is a buzz
Get the jab and fear not
Without it, a virus won’t stop
But you stay ignorant
An orange man’s rant
Learn and grow you can’t
Owange man bad.
Demented Joe good.
Trump did things.
You wish your cripple could.
Biden is awful and old
Sleeps past 9 I am told
Trump is bad this is true
But then Biden is too
We need a leader of all
Not party first calls
Stop the hate
People before State
Mirror mirror on the wall.
Who’s the reason for the fall?
If we follow all the sheep.
We’ll all live at the bottom of the heap.
Republicans have come and gone.
Democrats can’t get along.
Criticize the police and glorify thugs.
Print more money trying to squash bugs.
Systems in place for many years.
But now we’re more worried about satisfying queers.
Its all there for us to see.
We need new parties to set us free.
Just two weeks to flatten the curve.
Fauci lied and that’s absurd.
Changing definitions in the name if science.
It’s all about control and compliance.
The sheep will follow the CDC.
Keep your jab away from me.
Funny how you calls Dem sheep
Say what trumps says or you’re in trouble deep
Tow the line or be a RINO
Free thinking is a NO
But you be you if you choose
Just repeat his words and lose
It’s called pimping. The Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits coercion of any kind to get people to be experimented on
Funny little poem Mr Leprechaun. I’m sure your employers at Lucky Charms will give you PTO so you can recite that little ditty over the graves of 18000 North Carolinians who’ve died so far of this hysterical little joke of a virus. You know what else is funny? Every time the virus finds a NEW host it reacts and mutates into something new. Eventually these mutations become more deadly, more transmissible, more vaccine resistant and harder to eradicate. Funny little leprechauns like you have given us a pot of Delta variant at the end of your rainbow and will move it into Epsilon, Gamma etc variants until we achieve the herd immunity we achieved with polio, smallpox etc over the years. Ignorant little gold thieves should leave science to the scientists, keep their eyes on the and beg forgiveness for the brothers, sons, mothers sisters and wives your ignorance has brought to early graves at the end of your pot of fear, superstition and selfish greed.
This is not correct. Based on your logic, the flu would have mutated into an untreatable instant death virus by now. Every year part of our population gets the flu shot and part does not. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people get the flu and spread it further. And yet no super variant of flu has wiped us all out. Interesting.
Maybe you should stop spreading fear and let scientists be scientists.
Sorry, but something smells ‘fishy’ about that.
I only follow actual science and refuse to blindly follow modern scientists who are tweaking what they report to meet the narrative & fatten wallets. The virus will mutate just as easily in a “vaccinated” individual which is part of the actual “science” here. It is a pandemic. Unfortunately those do in fact kill people. If we’ve learned anything from this it is two fold: 1> The “vaccine” doesn’t prevent the spread or limit the mutations. 2> Knowing that, your friendly government officials are pushing it awfully hard but why and we don’t even know exactly what is in it.
If you believe that it took them almost a year to tell you that the undisclosed ingredient was actually saline, I have some ocean front property for sale in the middle of Kansas for only $1,500/acre. I’ll stick to hundreds of years of proven virology until I see something actually work with this Covid farce.
We just watched you loons criticize Florida for their stance and now they have almost no cases compared to early September. The Amish/Mennonite communities let it run its course and are past it all. Actually the Amish in Lancaster County, PA said they raked in more revenue in 2020 than they had in many years. Why? Well, they never closed & all worked to help one another through the mess. Did they get sick? Yes. Did some die? Of course they did. Are they scooping up the vaccines pitched by Uncle Sam? Not hardly.
Is the virus real? Absolutely! Its the response to it and the hype that concern us who hold the wolf by the ears, and we dare not let it go. There’s nothing selfish about protecting me and mine. If you choose to handle that differently that’s fine as long as you stay out of our business. When DHHS comes and knocks on my door they will get a quick and stern response as to why they ignored the “No Soliciting” label clearly posted at all exterior doors.
We’ll be easy to spot in public too. We will be the ones not wearing a muzzle, or gloves while we shop or pump gas, we will also be the ones who will not return to those establishments requiring same. We will be the ones who’s children are not returning to our government ran indoctrination centers, and we will be the happy, healthy folks you see at the park or walking the dog, or washing the car outside muzzle free & worry free.
Using my tax money to bribe people to get a vaccine that is supposed to “save” their lives is offensive to me and not what I pay taxes for. This has been the first year I seriously did not want to pay local, state, or federal tax because so much of my tax dollar is being used to bribe, bully, and intimidate people into getting a vaccine to deal with a virus that resulted from research to genetically modifying a virus (a process that our country had supposedly outlawed) but was funded by the NIH (with my tax dollar) and sent to a foreign lab by the dude that is now in charge of telling us to get the vaccine and wear masks.
Sure, bribe people with money. Let’s see the demographics on those bribed. I’d like to know the breakdown of location (rural, inner-city, urban, homeless), race, economic status, educational status, just out of curiosity. Did the government take advantage of disadvantaged people by targeting those who needed the money?
I have read another article that said that paying people to get vaccinated has not worked. It’s like many things now, even if you see the truth, how do you know it is? How can you verify it?
Of course, neither of us were paid to get ours. Govt bribes and payoffs are common, and expected. Sounds like organized crime to me. Oh, it’s not their money.