Where is the morality and ethics of a society, if you have to give a headset or a gift voucher, so that young people get vaccinated?
There are numerous reasons to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The most obvious, for your own health: if you are vaccinated the disease will affect you less.
But there are also reasons for solidarity: to reduce the transmission of the disease, the pressure on the health system (If it affects you little, they will not have to hospitalize you), to regain normalcy when before, and with it, the economy… Even for save lifes.
But apparently, for American teenagers (or their parents) they are not sufficient reasons. Not even if his future depends on a job in companies that are going bankrupt due to the pandemic. So you have to resort to the only thing that interests them: some Airpods or a free gift voucher:
Starting today at 10 am, DC youth (12-17) who get vaccinated at:
📍 Brookland MS
📍Sousa MS
📍Johnson MSWill receive AirPods with their first shot and a chance to win a:
💸 $ 25,000 scholarship
📱iPad and headphones#TakeTheShotDC pic.twitter.com/BIAH7Hgs7m– Major Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) August 7, 2021
As we see in this tweet from the mayor of Washington herself, children 12 to 17 years of age who receive the first dose of the vaccine in three designated centers (there you can ask for an appointment in the center you want), They will receive an Apple Airpods headphones, or a gift voucher for $ 51.
In addition, iPads, music headphones, and even a scholarship worth $ 25,000 will be entered into the raffle.
The young supporters who were vaccinated the first days do not receive anything, instead those who are not in a hurry or intention to get vaccinated are rewarded …
As it explains 9to5Mac, Washington state is not the only one where gifts are offered for going to get vaccinated. They also do it in Maryland, Michigan and Ohio.
A decision that has generated controversy in the country, because if you cannot convince a young person, or their parents (after all, they are minors), to get vaccinated for health, solidarity or economic reasons, but they go to do it for AirPods … What kind of society are we creating?
In First World countries, Spain included, it has already begun adolescent vaccination, with an eye to the next school year.
We will see if, almost two years after the first cases of coronavirus, normality finally returns to the classrooms in the next year. Then it will be time to assess the academic damage that the pandemic has caused to young people.