Would a £50 McDonalds voucher encourage people to have the jab?

[KhalliWhalli]

This is my colleague’s proposed solution to the issue of anti-vaxxers and others who don’t want to have the jab. He figures that as these people are generally of low intelligence, they fit the demographic of people who eat McDonald’s. Ergo if you bribe them with a £50 McDonald’s voucher at the time of vaccination, you would have hordes of people turning up for their jab.

He has a professional interest in this, so I have given it a bit more thought than I would usually.

I dunno, what do you guys think?

I think it would hit a certain demographic

And I don't care if it gets us over the 90%

1. insulting
2. how do you spend £50 in mcdonalds?

Probably, sadly. America did some wild incentives to encourage people to be jabbed, I'll leave you to Google as the first time I read about it I thought it was a joke, and you'll probably think I'm pulling your leg!

Whoever suggested this is pretty narrow minded.

Absolutely it would sway some people.

Although his comment about low intelligence meaning they don't get jabbed but like mc Donald's is disgraceful.

McJab .

If they offered £50 of John Lewis vouchers it would also encourage people

It's not a BAD thing 🤷‍♀️

So people who eat McDonald's are of low intelligence? Alrighty then!!

Wow! That is really depressing. I don’t agree with anti vaxxers, but I’d hope at least that their reasons for not having it would be more important to them than £50 worth of nuggets and fries.

I'd do it for a macdonalds voucher, bring it on, although I've already done it

I’ve had it but no that wouldn’t make me want it! Considering a McDonalds costs about 5 pounds lol

Just give £50 of cash

Under the McJab Programme, you can use your £50 whenever you like. It would be like a Gift Card.

But you'd have to give it to everyone who's had it already too

@KhalliWhalli

McJab .

😂😂 Lovin' it

Ona swrious note. 50😱 Could probs buy actual shop for that😂

I wouldn't take the 50 voucher for McDonald's as a giveaway for nothing never mind for not getting the vaccine. I have been educated to masters level and I have two degrees. Oh and I work in pharmaceuticals. I have opted not to get it...I know doctors, nurses and several well educated ppl who have not/will not be having the vaccine.

I'm having my second jab tomorrow and would happily accept a voucher for pretty much anywhere.
It would take time to buy 50 mcflurries though...
(Although I did nearly faint at the price of 3 mcdonalds meals at a service station a few months ago... just wanted something that was quick and easy to eat in the car!)

Sure. Only thick anti-vaxxers eat McDonald's. And every thick anti-vaxxer likes McDonald's. What could possibly be wrong with his theory?! I am almost aggressively pro-vaccine. I am also highly educated and I eat the odd Macca's. How do I fit into your friend's very narrow-minded demography theory?

Insulting, condescending and patronising. That's what I think and I'm NHS and double vaccinated.

Yeah, they’re so stupid all of them. Maybe you could leave a trail of maccies vouchers along the housing estate leading to Mac Donald’s, but instead of a Big Mac lean over and quickly jab the thickos as they enter. Those stupid anti vaccine Mac Donald’s gobblers.

He is wrong to say that people who don’t get jabbed are of low intelligence. He is also wrong to insinuate that people of low intelligence would also be more likely to chose to eat at McDonald’s. Both are sweeping generalisations.

He is not wrong to say that offering this incentive would lead to more people getting jabbed, of course it would. But he could have been far less scathing by simply stating that ‘incentives could be offered to increase vaccine uptake’

It certainly would sway some people.
But to call people that eat in McDonalds low intelligence is insulting and unless your friend has spent the past few months going round all the Mds in the country giving everyone IQ / Mensa test he his making up stats which makes him of low intelligence

Besides, I’d feel well put out as I’m already jabbed and I’d want my voucher!

Your colleague is a bigoted idiot.