What about a side of fries?
The liberal media is doing all that it can to help Joe Biden reach his new goal to get 70 percent of America vaccinated by the Fourth Of July and ideas are coming fast and furious over how to entice people to line up to get “the jab.”
With some states like New Jersey resorting to bribery by sponsoring free beer for those who comply, the notion that the vaccine “hesitant” will respond to the dangling of such freebies in order to boost vaccination numbers and deliver a political win to Biden.
One proposal that would get the federal government involved with doling out free stuff comes from former MSNBC political analyst who suggested that CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky should consider holding a “prize drawing” with one of the rewards being “a coupon for a free Big Mac” that could be redeemed at your local McDonald’s.
The former Democrat senator discussed her brainstorm with Walensky on Wednesday’s edition of “Morning Joe.”
According to McCaskill; “Doctor, you know, this is America, where everyone wants a Groupon, coupon or they want to compete for a prize,” she said, “Have you guys seriously considered working with not-for-profit or other health organizations to maybe provide some kind of prize drawing for people who come and get their vaccination at this point?”
She suggested; “maybe some cash, maybe a coupon for you know, uh, Mika, shut your ears… maybe a coupon for a free Big Mac? Have you guys thought about that?”
Despite Walensky giggling at the absurdity of such an idea, McCaskill plowed on; “because it seems to me, sometimes the carrot in the United States Of America is more effective than the stick.”
The CDC boss replied; “Good morning Claire. Thank you for that.” she said, “so he have now “a cohort of over 5,000 community core organizations that are working with people.”
Walensky continued; “Not everybody will want a carrot, some people will want a different carrot than others, some might want a Big Mac, some might want a coupon to a pharmacy, so we are working with individual communities to understand what might speak best to those communities,”
She added, “we’re working with NASCAR, we’re working with you know uh, professional sports leagues to see maybe they want to meet sports figures, we’re doing everything that we can to reach as many people that we can, one person at a time.”
With pressure on Biden who based a large part of his White House campaign fomenting fear over COVID and claiming that he was better equipped to handle it than Trump and now has to deliver, look for the public-private partnership, sports figures, and celebrities to relentlessly prod Americans into taking “the jab” so that he can declare victory.
There continues to be a lot of chatter about “carrots” and “sticks” and while many including McCaskill’s MSNBC colleague Micheal Smerconish is ready to break out the whooping stick by calling for companies to mandate the vaccinations, the administration and its mouthpieces are to this point refraining from such heavy-handed measures.
However, there will be fewer carrots like McCaskill’s nutty ideas and more sticks if people continue to hold out.
