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?

There have been all sorts of incentives including jars of pickled herring in The Netherlands.

How on earth has this conclusion been arrived at?
I didn't arrive at it, the ONS did.
Lower education = lower vaccine take-up
Higher education = Higher vaccine take-up

I didn't know that and hadn't heard it being talked about. Some of the most vehement anti vaxxers I know are very well educated.

*Bluesheep8

If not you can tell your colleague that the majority of people I know who are not taking the jab are degree-educated, very intelligent people

It doesn't automatically follow that degree educated people are in any sense intelligent though.

Thanks for saying this. And it also follows that people who aren’t degree educated also can’t be intelligent.

Maybe a little raw as I’m only educated to GCSE level but am certainly not thick. Only have a confirmed IQ test to show for it which people hate to hear about.

I’ve had one jab and love a maccies*

I'm educated to degree level, of average intelligence on a good day, verging on really rather thick on a not so good day, been double jabbed and love a Big Mac, large fries and a strawberry milkshake.
That said, this thread is leaving me with the feeling that there's criteria I'm not fulfilling somewhere...maybe I'm not intelligent enough to work out what it is

@feelingmehtoday

Maybe a little raw as I’m only educated to GCSE level but am certainly not thick. Only have a confirmed IQ test to show for it which people hate to hear about.

Which one, out of interest? I love to hear about it. I used to administer them in a past job.

It was the Mensa supervised Cattell (culture fair and III B)

@VanGoSunflowers

Ah, I used to administer the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), many moons ago in a past role! I knew all the answers inside out from scoring so many of them, that had it been administered to me I'd have come out as a genius

What about giving them a big badge to wear that says, ‘I wouldn’t get the vaccine until I was bribed with £X 😏’

Surely an IQ test you could learn the answers to would defeat the purpose?

@KeflavikAirport

Surely an IQ test you could learn the answers to would defeat the purpose?

Not if you're administering it to others and scoring it, no. The test remains perfectly valid for those being tested. However when you administer and score a standardised assessment enough times you become familiar with the answers and the scoring criteria. If you are then the person being tested further down the line after having administered it for many years (as I did), then yes, your results will be skewed if you remember the correct responses.

thanks for the explanation

feelingmehtoday I presumed this is why they wouldn’t let me take the test again for at least 12 months after I first sat it?

Spoiler alert - I didn’t score high enough to get in (to be fair, honestly didn’t think I would but I was very pleased with my score )

@VanGoSunflowers

feelingmehtoday I presumed this is why they wouldn’t let me take the test again for at least 12 months after I first sat it?

Spoiler alert - I didn’t score high enough to get in (to be fair, honestly didn’t think I would but I was very pleased with my score )

Yes. You wouldn't generally retest someone within 2 years of their first test as this would reduce validity.

We get a free food voucher for having our flu jab in the NHS every year. Though the covid one we all went running for to be fair!

Well the people I know who are not having the jab would rather have the jab than have McDonalds! The opposite could be said to those that have taken the jab= low intelligence.

Probably, we used to get clamidya tests every other week when they came with a free cinema ticket.

I guess the clinic phoned the cinema ahead if positive so they could line the seats.

I prefer a means-tested lottery system.

£10,000 x1000 prizes (10m, loose change to this govt).

Round 1: anyone who has 2nd Jab by 1st Sept

Round 2: people that have jab between 2nd Sept to . (As not to exclude any nearly 18, or 12+, or anyone else not yet eligible etc.).

Means tested: must have house-hold assets less than a certain amount.

Money will likely go to those that need it, and those that probably are yet to be jabbed.

I heard some city in America had a lottery that everyone over 18 living in the city was entered into jabbed or not. If your name was picked, you could only collect the money if you'd already been vaccinated, if not, ooh, poor you, you missed out on $1,000,000. Another name is called instead.

Most definitely would not encourage me to have the jab! I’m actually insulted. If someone I knew said that to me I would not give them the time of day again!

Seriously

Not me!!! Vom!

We don't spend £50 in McDonalds in a decade!

It would certainly motivate some who are a bit lazy - like my person I know who was hospitalised after he didn't get around to getting his jab

It's not going to do a thing for the ardent antivaxxers on my timeline though

Is it really your colleague who came up with the idea because your replies sound like you're the one with all the ideas? Whoever came up with it is an idiot, I'm vaccinated but I believe everyone has the right to choose and if someone doesn't want a very new vaccine that we don't know the long term effects then that's their right to do so.

I think this is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard. Everyone I know who doesn’t want to have the vaccine are scared of potentially injecting something unhealthy into their bodies. They are usually into alternative medicine and are the least likely people I know to eat McDonald’s. I have had it and I also eat McDonald’s so I am not talking about myself. But my partner won’t have the vaccine as he is suspicious and paranoid about a lot of things being bad for you and that definitely includes McDonald’s!