Vaccine Lottery
Just when you think over-reaching governments cannot do more to harm their citizens during the COVID outbreak…comes yet another example.
This one has potentially tragic consequences, all because of government lust for power, and citizen lust for greed.
Lotteries have been around since colonial times…yes, even before the Revolutionary War. Tickets were sold to raise funds for everything from starting a college to building prisons.
These days, we drop a few dollars and hope a collection of numbers makes us rich beyond our wildest dreams. There are obvious downsides to this, such as desperate people spending their last dollars on a faint hope.
That’s why these vaccination lotteries are so troubling. Ohio, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Oregon and West Virginia…they all now have some form of lottery involved to award prizes to the lucky winner—and all you have to do to qualify is get vaccinated.
It’s one thing to put two dollars down on a lottery ticket. But now the government is asking you to make a personal medical decision—getting the vaccination—in exchange for the chance to be rich.
Not beyond the realm of possibility to think that some may get the shot even though it might not be in their medical best interest…or that some who already got the shot would get another one, just to enter to win the big prize.
This goes well beyond public health. This is an abuse of power. Think any of these states will pay up if someone gets a shot so they can enter…and has serious, perhaps fatal, side-effects? Nope.
Let’s hope this does not become one of more tragic examples of COVID-related government overreach.
