Written by Amanda Angulo<\/p>\n
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made up a plan in order to get a higher turnout to get vaccines. He wants to offer them a $100 incentive for the unvaccinated. On Wednesday, Blasio made the announcement at a press conference, \u201cit does not get better than that,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Starting by Friday, they will begin to hand out the cash prize to residents and employees who have made an appointment at city-run vaccination sites. Officials at the press conferences also added that first-timers will be mailed a debit card or issued a digital one via email.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the conference, he also mentioned that those who have already been vaccinated did \u201cthe right thing\u201d and thanked them. \u201cBut, we understand it\u2019s been a huge amount of misinformation \u2026 particularly through social media getting anything but the truth. We got a lot we\u2019ve got to overcome,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In New York City, over 9 million doses of the vaccine have been administered. However, Blasio said that over 59% of the city\u2019s population have received at least the first COVID-19 shot, but that is not enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ve seen this happen in our own state of California. Governor Newsom also made million-dollar prizes for a handful of individuals, whose names were not disclosed, yet it fell short in the outcome they wished for. Millions of dollars were wasted because not enough people turned out, despite the higher incentive offered in California. With New York doing the same, and still not knowing the exact budget to throw money away, we can expect another shortcoming with this bribery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Amanda Angulo New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made up a plan in order to get a higher turnout to get vaccines. He wants to offer them a $100 incentive for the unvaccinated. On Wednesday, Blasio made the announcement at a press conference, \u201cit does not get better than that,\u201d he said.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n