https://archive.md/qsiDY

The country’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign got off to a slow start. Now it’s trying to catch up with a medley of incentives and heavy-handed approaches.

"heavy-handed"

    • StLangoustine [any]
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      4 years ago

      That's innovative free enterprise, not evil government though.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Don't kids get lollipops and stuff for going to the doctors or is that just a thing in American cartoons and sitcoms?

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Honestly I have no idea if that ever typically happened anywhere at any point in time, I just assumed it was something out of a Norman Rockwell painting of "Very loosely based on an extremely idealized version of reality". Zero fucking idea if it ever really happened beyond one guy's practice in Tennessee or something

        • BezosDied [any]
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          4 years ago

          My dentist used to do it, but he was literally born in the 1920s. :chomsky-yes-honey: