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“Mmmm!…vaccination.” NYC Mayor announces Shake Shack will give free food to vaccinated New Yorkers. “I want you to look at these French fries and think about how great it is to get vaccinated.” (twitter.com)
posted 4 years ago by TheAndredal 4 years ago by TheAndredal +77 / -0
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– GhostBond 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Is this just an out of date narrative from the last time around? Honestly, this is how it's supposed to work. The government isn't supposed to be able to force you to do it, or to threaten your livehood or ability to earn a living.

Here they are offering...fries.

The government is supposed to fulfill it's job of encouraging you to do things it believes is in societies best interest, without forcing or coercing you into it.

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– MustafaJones 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Granted this isn’t all that bad compared to shit like vaccine passports but still, why the need for a bribe in the first place? If the WuFlu is as bad as the government says, and the vaccine is really as effective as they say, why the need for a bribe? Normally this wouldn’t rustle anyone’s jimmies but considering the controversy around the WuFlu I’d say the governments motives here need to be questioned.

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– deleted 2 points 4 years ago +3 / -1
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– GhostBond 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

This just seems to jump into "other side is doing it so it's bad" politicking. I'm so tired of this stuff. I love what DeSantis did in Florida and I hate the cult-like response to covid.

But now they're doing what they're supposed to - managing a new disease, offering vacinne, but not forcing people to take it...and you're still unhappy?

This is how things are supposed to work, not the crazy cult-like environment that was being pushed before. You have to provide a little motivation to get some people to do things and I don't think a sandwhich and some fries is excessive government pressure.

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– MustafaJones 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I’m not saying using free stuff as an incentive for vaccination is excessive government pressure. However what I am saying is that governments are still pushing way too hard for vaccines for a relatively harmless virus. Maybe things are a bit different in the US but I cannot think of a single instance where my state or federal government tried to motivate people to vaccinate by giving free stuff as a “bribe”. I remember when very well when they discovered the HPV vaccine that could prevent cervical cancer, (a far deadlier ailment) and all they did was run some ads saying “hey people should get this”, the same went for the flu vaccine So to me this whole “bribe” thing is a bid foreign and seems very strange especially in relation to the current pandemic.

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– MegoThor 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

The government isn't supposed to be able to install a senile old pedophile as president but here we are.

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– GhostBond -1 points 4 years ago +2 / -3

They wanted a moderate to lower the political temperature. The only one they could find was very old. He's practically a 1980's republican.

There's been a ton of stuff I've hated about liberals / democrats over the last several years, but I'm tired of the pointless disgust-politicking where every year people get more entrenched in political b.s., every year they get more miserable, every year it gets worse.

I'm sick of this "my identity is my politics" sh**t.

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– MegoThor 1 point 4 years ago +2 / -1

Biden isn’t a moderate and he never was. He’s nothing like the 80’s Republicans he fought so hard against in the actual 80’s. He’s a lifelong grifter who’s had his hand in the public cookie jar for nearly 50 years.

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– cartoonericroberts 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

"Moderate" is a word that in this context means "a progressive who knows how to move slow enough to not spook the normies." The grill dads must be pacified while they replace their burgers with mealworms and put section eight housing in the middle of their neighborhood.

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– GhostBond 0 points 4 years ago +1 / -1

Honestly I'm so tired of the "whoever's on the other side is is bad".

I'd ship pelosi off to a foreign country to with contact with the outside world if I could, but Biden has just mostly been drawing a deliberate moderate line. I'd love to see someone younger and more personable doing the same thing as a republican candidate but I'd rather have biden than most of the people actually running for president, based on what he's actually been doing so far.

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

If this was the Plague where 25% of the population was wiped out and every family had buried at least one close relative, would you need the government to tell you this was something you needed to take seriously? Or would you just know it was serious business because every day it seemed like someone you knew was now dead?

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– GhostBond 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

I'm just repeating myself here. You seem to be writing a narrative that applies to things that happened before but having nothing to do with this one.

Offering fries and a burger in exchange for getting vacinnated is the level vaccine encouragement should be at in general. It's not the "you're not allowed to have a job or leave your house" crap that was being pushed before.

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– lgbtqwtfbbq 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Why is "vaccine encouragement" necessary at all for this thing? People who are afraid of it are vaccinated; people who aren't, aren't.

If 6 billion people were dead and entire US cities were wiped out, "vaccine encouragement" wouldn't be necessary because people would be killing each other for a chance to get a couple spots ahead in the line.

Any "narrative" beyond that is something I didn't say.

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– GhostBond 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Once again repeating the narrative for a totally different battle. Ok, good luck.

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