The vaccine lottery is a dud. How about just paying people to get the shots instead? – By Danny Westneat (Seattle Times) / June 26 2021
Gov. Jay Inslee was doing his best barker routine the other day — exhorting, pleading, and ultimately luring with shiny objects, as he tried to get the holdouts and skeptics to step inside the tent.
“Why the heck would you not get this vaccination?” he said. “It could save your life, and it’s free! It has the added benefit of protecting everybody around you that you love!”
“If that’s not enough,” he added later, “you could still win cash or other prizes through Shot of a Lifetime.”
Washington state has done a decent job, overall, at getting vaccinated up. Sixty-eight percent of people 16 and older have had at least one shot, and about 60% are fully vaccinated. But we’re stuck. The number of shots each day is on a steady slide, with the data starting to suggest that about a third of the state’s adults may not get fully vaccinated no matter what.
