Kebabs for Jabs

I am outraged by this. It just proves how selfish the young are today and who is going to finance this? Us mugs, the tax payers!! Why are they offering this sweetener? It's like the free bike to the overweight and free fruit and veg for them. As a tax payer I utterly resent it.

I heard of somebody who is ill with Covid at the moment. She wouldn’t have the vaccine because wary of what’s in it but went abroad and had lip fillers and a boob job ??‍♀️

songstress60

I am outraged by this. It just proves how selfish the young are today and who is going to finance this? Us mugs, the tax payers!! Why are they offering this sweetener? It's like the free bike to the overweight and free fruit and veg for them. As a tax payer I utterly resent it.

This really annoys me, sorry.

The young are not selfish. If a few free kebabs gets more of them to sign up, let's go for it. They are already signing up in droves. 72% of 18-29 years olds in Scotland have already had their first dose. The more that take it, the more you and I are protected.

Its a kebab or an UBER ride, FFS, not a gold watch.

I agree Allegrias, this sweeping condemnation of young people without any foundation or facts makes me angry.

And actually if people were honest they would admit that they mostly had the vaccine for themselves and for those close to them, it's perfectly understandable that the rate would be lower in the young, fear is a great motivator for people.

I don’t resent anything that’s given to young people if it induces them to get a vaccine, nor do I mind if they can’t be admitted to clubs because they’ve not been vaccinated, but I am saddened by young people getting their information from social media, if that’s the case. I am also saddened by the thought of young people becoming seriously ill or even dying because they refused, or didn’t get round to getting a vaccine. All deaths are sad, but young people dying is even more sad.

songstress60

I am outraged by this. It just proves how selfish the young are today and who is going to finance this? Us mugs, the tax payers!! Why are they offering this sweetener? It's like the free bike to the overweight and free fruit and veg for them. As a tax payer I utterly resent it.

My understanding is that the various incentives being suggested are not being funded by the government, it is the companies themselves who are offering them. It’s a clever marketing ploy, after all, if one person has a voucher for a free basic pizza, they are likely to go with a group of friends who will spend money on food and drinks. The freebies will advertise their products over competitors and are probably a small cost compared to the extra sales they will get.

songstress60

I am outraged by this. It just proves how selfish the young are today and who is going to finance this? Us mugs, the tax payers!! Why are they offering this sweetener? It's like the free bike to the overweight and free fruit and veg for them. As a tax payer I utterly resent it.

Is this for real?!

can we really get free bikes and free fruit and veg?

JaneJudge

can we really get free bikes and free fruit and veg?

It seems some can,yes

I'm quite rotund, can't quite see myself on a bike but I'd go for the free fruit and veg

Oh for pity’s sake, just tell them they can’t go on holiday, into clubs, sports events, festivals, the hairdressers, college or anywhere in fact and see how many rush to get it then.
I’m sick of all this bargaining with kids, it starts as soon as they can talk and look what we’ve got.
Hasten to add that there are many lovely, sensible caring young people who’d probably not want a bribe to get their vaccine.

They are not kids. They are adults.

It won't change the minds of the anti-vaxxers, but if telling them that turning up at the vaccine centre will get them a free pizza, and that makes even 100 of them do it, really, what is the problem.

You get a cup of tea and a biscuit when you give blood. (I know that's meant to stop you fainting.)

It always makes me question when people make statement like that above......
Do young people not pay tax?
Do overweight people who need a bike not pay tax?

Do overweight, non bike owning, young people not pay tax?
Do taxidermists pay tax?
Do taxi drivers pay tax?
Do

DGD (19 next month) was at the head of the queue! She works part-time in a chippy and is constantly meeting customers, so has been very conscious of masks and hygiene right from the start of the pandemic, so the vax was the icing on the cake. Her 17-year-old younger brother was given it earlier as he has a record of asthma. Other two GSs, 13 and 16 will probably have it when schools start again in September.

A woman after my own heart FannyCornforth!

It is disgusting. If I had known there would be freebies I would have held out for the vaccine till I received a free kebab/pizza/Wetherspoons voucher or whatever was going. Aren't the young self-serving and me-first enough!! Waste of taxpayers cash.

songstress60

It is disgusting. If I had known there would be freebies I would have held out for the vaccine till I received a free kebab/pizza/Wetherspoons voucher or whatever was going. Aren't the young self-serving and me-first enough!! Waste of taxpayers cash.

Ah I see - clearly a spoof.

songstress60 you want a free kebab don't you? what's your flavour?

I heard they were giving out slush puppies and glo sticks to the over 40s and dimming the lights in the vaccine centres

Lucca

songstress60

It is disgusting. If I had known there would be freebies I would have held out for the vaccine till I received a free kebab/pizza/Wetherspoons voucher or whatever was going. Aren't the young self-serving and me-first enough!! Waste of taxpayers cash.

Ah I see - clearly a spoof.

But with a grain of truth. As I mentioned elsewhere, if you're the sort of person who would be influenced by this you're very probably the sort of person who, when we all have to get boosters, will deliberately hang on until they're bribed.

I'm too easily taken in

Its because I'm a trusting soul.

They had coffee vans and ice cream vans outside our vaccination centres for the young ones get a freebie, so a kebab is a step up. Our local news reporter asked a young fella why he got his jab and he answered so he could go to a festival. I think that's more of a draw rather than a bloomin kebab. They just want their freedom, that's it.

We all want our freedom, young, old, and inbetweens. If the vaccine is what gives us our freedom back, I’d have thought we’d all be up for it. Young people as well.

Oh, fanny, you’ve made me laugh ??