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Re:Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vacci... by arenaninja on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:23PM (#27146228)
If your incentive is distribution of the money, potentially yes. But like a real lottery I think this is about taking advantage of people's low statistical knowledge banking on hitting it big. I quite like it
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Re:Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vacci... by kube-system on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:35PM (#27146353)
It's a good, hilariously ironic, and slightly sad idea. People are afraid of taking a vaccine because they don't understand the statistically minuscule possibility of serious side-effects? Give them a statistically minuscule positive incentive to balance it out!
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Re:Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vacci... by mbg721 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:02PM (#27146678)
The people who really distrust the vaccine will just think, "Gee, the same government that manipulated everyone into thinking they were all going to die is now manipulating them into thinking they'll win the lottery." This won't convince them, but it might appeal to the sense of greed of the ones who are just lazy and don't like mild side-effects.
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Re:Ohio Lottery to Give 5 People $1M Each to Encourage Vacci... by myko on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:24AM (#27153450)
Those folks are unreachable anyway.
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