ThinkCivics News
Join ThinkCivics+
  • Culture & Society
  • Economy
  • Health
  • US News
  • Faith
  • Science & Tech
  • World News
No Result
View All Result
ThinkCivics News
  • Culture & Society
  • Economy
  • Health
  • US News
  • Faith
  • Science & Tech
  • World News
Join ThinkCivics+
No Result
View All Result
ThinkCivics News
Join TC+
Home Health

Incentives, not bullying, are the way to get vax-hesitant to take the jabs

ThinkCivics Newswire by ThinkCivics Newswire
August 5, 2021
in Health
Reading Time: 3 mins read
0
0
Incentives, not bullying, are the way to get vax-hesitant to take the jabs

Vaccine hesitancy remains widespread in the land. Government can and should help combat it, but with rational incentives — not bullying and mandates.

Many Americans don’t want the vaccines. Their reasons vary. Some are afraid they’re dangerous. Others are young and healthy and figure they aren’t at much risk. Still others are wary of the elite institutions pushing vaccination. These institutions have only themselves to blame, what with their high-handed censorship and brazen flip-flops (remember when any public gatherings would invite a COVID holocaust, except Black Lives Matter riots, which were deemed positively mandatory by health bureaucrats?).

The establishment’s response to this resistance is to tighten the screws with mandates and vaccine passports, combined with condescending assurances about the vaccines’ safety. But if officials want people to take those assurances seriously, they should pass laws that will make people whole in the (very rare) cases they’re injured by the vaccines.

Right now, a lot of vaccine critics argue that the various COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental.” That isn’t entirely wrong. The vaccines haven’t yet received full Food and Drug Administration approval, a process that normally takes many years of testing for a vaccine.

Instead, people are getting jabbed with these products under a law that allows the FDA to green-light “countermeasures” that haven’t been approved through the normal process. Meanwhile, the FDA and the manufacturers are gathering information about the vaccines’ safety as they’re rolled out. So while they’re not exactly “experimental,” we are learning as we go along.

That’s not so bad. The rapid production of these vaccines through Team Trump’s Operation Warp Speed was a huge triumph. And by all appearances, all the vaccines are quite safe — and highly effective at preventing serious illness and death.

But as several people I know have said, the folks pushing the vaccines won’t be there for them if they have a bad experience, which can, as with any vaccine, lead to death or lifelong disability. Those folks will just tut-tut and assure us that such side effects are very rare.

Well, the rareness of side effects is cold comfort for those few who suffer them. You know what could give comfort? Money.

Vaccine manufacturers are usually protected from liability by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Instead of being liable for potentially huge damages in court, the manufacturers are given immunity, and injured people can apply to the VICP for compensation. The process is rather bureaucratic and the compensation not very generous, especially compared with what you might win in a personal-injury lawsuit.

But Congress concluded that since vaccines generally aren’t very profitable, manufacturers would have no incentive to manufacture them if they weren’t shielded from liability. Hence the compensation program.

But the VICP doesn’t apply to emergency “countermeasures” like the COVID vaccines. There’s a different — and even less generous — compensation scheme there, along with extensive protections against liability for manufacturers, doctors, pharmacists and the like.

So when people say that they’re being asked to take an unapproved vaccine without much in the way of compensation if something goes wrong, they’re basically right. So what do we do? The government should put its money where its mouth is.

We change the rules to make people feel safe. In the case of ordinary vaccines, manufacturers need an incentive to enter the market. In the case of these vaccines, ordinary people need an incentive to enter the market. So let’s provide ordinary people with some incentives.

A special “COVID Injury Compensation Fund” paying much higher damages to injured people might fit the bill. The ordinary vaccine-compensation program caps damages at $250,000 for death and disability. A COVID fund might award sums of $1 million for death or disability, plus lost income and medical expenses; a million is a round number that should reassure people.

The vaccines are generally safe, so the expenses involved will be low, especially by comparison with today’s breakneck federal spending. Mandates and hectoring will only render the already-suspicious even more so. The far better route is a well-tailored incentive scheme that seeks to assuage the hesitant — without insulting their intelligence.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.

This article was originally published by the NY Post. Read the original article.

ThinkCivics Newswire

ThinkCivics researches, examines, and reports on issues that matter most. We deliver explanative, fearless, and insightful analysis for public consumption.

thinkcivics.com
Tags: BullyingIncentivesVaccine Hesitancy
<

Related Posts

CDC Admits Scary Truths About Vaccine

CDC Admits Scary Truths About Vaccine

August 11, 2022
Scientists suing Biden admin over COVID info censorship

Scientists suing Biden admin over COVID info censorship

August 8, 2022

Expert Expects Insurance Companies to Take Legal Action Against COVID Vaccine Makers Over ‘Early’ and ‘Unexpected’ Deaths

August 7, 2022

CDC Warns Deadly Bacteria Detected In U.S. For 1st Time

August 4, 2022
Load More
Next Post
Biden’s eviction ban is a snub to the Constitution — and his oath of office

Biden’s eviction ban is a snub to the Constitution — and his oath of office

Renewables Need Big Oil To Thrive

Renewables Need Big Oil To Thrive

4 Factors to Watch in Cuomo Impeachment Probe

4 Factors to Watch in Cuomo Impeachment Probe

TODAY'S TOP STORIES

  • Doorbell camera catches deliveryman’s unfiltered response to an Anti-Biden doormat and it’s perfect

    Doorbell camera catches deliveryman’s unfiltered response to an Anti-Biden doormat and it’s perfect

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • New Details About the Mar-a-Lago Raid Are Truly Stunning, If True

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Get her!’: Woman brings traffic to a halt starting a fight, then tries running away before eating pavement

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • New Details About Judge Who Approved Mar-A-Lago Raid Raises All Sorts of Red Flags

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Comedian Rob Schneider Reacts to Latest Biden Blunder: ‘Forget Climate Change, This Guy’s Brain No Longer Works’

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

‘Preserve Your Documents’: McCarthy Threatens AG Merrick Garland With Investigation After FBI Raid Of Trump’s Home

by The Political Insider
August 10, 2022
0
‘Preserve Your Documents’: McCarthy Threatens AG Merrick Garland With Investigation After FBI Raid Of Trump’s Home
National Security

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, expressing frustration with yesterday’s FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, sent a...

Read more

‘Civil War’ trending on Twitter after FBI raids Trump’s Mar-A-Lago

by ThinkCivics Newswire
August 9, 2022
0
National Security

FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. on Monday night. Among the wide ranging reactions from...

Read more

‘Some Third World Bulls***’ – Dan Bongino Goes Ballistic On Fox News Over FBI Raid of Trump’s Home

by The Political Insider
August 9, 2022
0
‘Some Third World Bulls***’ – Dan Bongino Goes Ballistic On Fox News Over FBI Raid of Trump’s Home
National Security

Fox News weekend host Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, unleashed his anger over the FBI raid of former...

Read more

‘What Are Y’all Doing?’: Cruz Scorches FBI Director for Targeting Patriotic Symbols

by ThinkCivics Newswire
August 4, 2022
0
‘What Are Y’all Doing?’: Cruz Scorches FBI Director for Targeting Patriotic Symbols
National Security

In Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz took Wray to task...

Read more
Joe Biden Accidentally Stumbles Upon the Truth About the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
Economy

Joe Biden Accidentally Stumbles Upon the Truth About the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’

by RedState
August 10, 2022
0

Perhaps because they know kitchen table issues like the economy and inflation are typically the top priorities for voters come...

Read more
The 50 Most Radical Policies In ‘Inflation Reduction’ Act
Economy

The 50 Most Radical Policies In ‘Inflation Reduction’ Act

by ThinkCivics News Staff
August 8, 2022
0

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has laid out the 50 most radical policies in the Inflation Reduction Act. Banks, the chairman...

Read more
Here’s the Truth About What ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Will Do
Economy

Here’s the Truth About What ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Will Do

by The Daily Signal
August 7, 2022
0

As Senate Democrats achieve their goal of jamming  through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, reality is becoming clear: The bill...

Read more
Sen. Kennedy Speaks for All of Us as He Takes Apart Dems for Passing Manchin-Schumer Bill
Economy

Sen. Kennedy Speaks for All of Us as He Takes Apart Dems for Passing Manchin-Schumer Bill

by RedState
August 7, 2022
0

It’s hard to believe that the Democrats passed a huge tax and spend bill in the middle of a recession....

Read more
Facebook Twitter RSS

Brilliantly

SAFE!

thinkcivics.com

Content & Links

Verified by Sur.ly

2022

Recent News

  • Nonprofit organization exposed for secretly pushing gender ideology on your young children: report
  • CDC Admits Scary Truths About Vaccine
  • Do These 4 Things to Help Secure Your Online Life

Category

  • Culture & Society
  • Economy
  • Editorials
  • Education
  • Elections
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Faith
  • Health
  • Immigration
  • Military
  • National Security
  • Politics
  • Science & Tech
  • US News
  • Videos
  • World News

© 2022 ThinkCivics Media. All Rights Reserved.

  • Login
  • Sign Up
  • Cart
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About
  • Store
  • Contact Us
  • Join
  • Contribute

© 2022 ThinkCivics Media. All Rights Reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

OR

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.