Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that Six Flags will be offering 50,000 free admission tickets to people who get vaccinated at select locations around the state. Newsom made the announcement of this incentive program at Six Flags Magic Mountain to tout the re-opening of the California economy and to praise other incentive programs that the state has done.
“We took a sledgehammer to the entertainment industry in the last year because of the stay-at-home order, no one’s naive,” Newsom said. “When we talk about California roaring back, there was one sector of our economy that was particularly impacted by this pandemic, and that was hospitality, restaurants, and entertainment.”
The announcement comes on the heels of Tuesday’s lottery in California which had 10 random California residents win $1.5 million and a recent state lottery that saw 30 random people win $50,000 if they had been partially vaccinated, all part of the “Vax for the Win” campaign. California is still continuing its program of offering $50 gift cards or groceries to those who receive their first dose of the vaccine, as only 920,000 of the 2,000,000 available cards have been distributed, which started on May 27th.
The “Vax for the Win” campaign totaled $116.5 million in incentives. The tickets to Six Flags are good through September 6th and can get those with the tickets free access to Six Flags four parks in California: Magic Mountain, Discovery Kingdom, Hurricane Harbor Valencia, or Hurricane Harbor Concord.
Starting July 1st, the state will be giving away six California vacation packages and individual counties have also been offering their own incentives. Governor Newsom has said that the incentive programs have been efficient and effective, “California lays claim to being one of the few states that actually has seen a week-over-week increase in vaccine doses — 1.13 million people received at least a dose of vaccine over the last seven days, 219,000 yesterday in the last reporting period,” he said. “That’s a roughly 22% increase week-over-week in terms of vaccination rate, which is remarkable when you consider 72-plus percent of adults have already received one vaccine. But we cannot put down our guard.”
