In case free burgers and cash prizes aren’t enticing enough, a range of firms, including Asda, National Express Buses and Deliveroo, have announced new incentives to get young Britons vaccinated against Covid. The Telegraph has the story.
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, announced that five companies will be offering incentives to persuade the young to get jabs.
Asda will offer £10 vouchers for its George clothing brand to 18 to 30 year-olds who spend more than £20. These will be offered at vaccine pop-up clinics in Old Kent Road, in south London, and Watford and Birmingham.
Lastminute.com will provide £30 gift cards towards holidays abroad to all young people getting vaccinated through its website, while Better leisure centres will give over-16s a £10 voucher to use on any of its membership deals and a free three-day pass at any of its 235 leisure facilities across the U.K.
FREE NOW will provide up to £1 million in free taxi rides each way for over-18s attending a vaccine appointment Sunday until the end of September.
National Express Buses (Midlands) will offer 1,000 people five-day unlimited travel saver tickets which can be used within 90 days. Tickets can be claimed by sharing vaccine booking references in the company’s app.
Deliveroo confirmed that it will offer thousands of £5 vouchers to those who get the vaccine, while Bolt said it would provide £10 vouchers for 10,000 rides in Birmingham and Leicester from next week. …
Teenagers within three months of turning 18 can also now book a vaccine appointment online through the National Booking Service or by calling 119. …
Mr Javid said: “It is fantastic to see more companies backing the phenomenal vaccine rollout and joining the public as they do everything they can to continue protecting their loved ones, themselves, their community and this country.
“This truly is a national effort and we would not be where we are today without the support of the NHS, volunteers, businesses and the people of the U.K. themselves as we continue to build the wall of defence through every jab given.”
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I think you have illustrated perfectly why people in their droves are turning away from the mainstream media.
It’s largely one-sided fear porn and takes no account of empirically derived fact, feels no obligation to justify itself, all the while accusing those it disagrees with of doing exactly the same thing.
Yep you can bet on that.
Unless, of course, that industry, organisation or company is, in some way, aligned with state ‘truth’ – then there is no cynicism to be found anywhere.
^This.
It would be interesting to test this assertion and see how many MPs do actually receive funding from the gambling industry (not just winning a couple of quid on the horses).
While we’re at it we could also assess how many MPs receive funding from ‘Green’ lobby groups.
I would wager a couple of quid that our MPs are more in the pocket of the greenies.
A tenner says you’re right on that one.
I just noticed the subtitle “Leading Britain’s Conversation”. Bit pretentious, what? Especially in the Era of X. I was thinking it stood for Left-wing Bollocks Cluster.
More than pretentious.
Clearly not a news organisation then.
”Safeguarding”
There is a repulsive, extremely modern word, the epitome of the nanny state. Overbearing and sanctimonious.
It puts everyone into 3 categories. Victim, predator and protector.
If you don’t play along and give into everything the protectors demand, then you are a bad, reckless person and basically on the side of the predators.
Not too far off topic: RIS = reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Spying on you and you haven’t even got a mobile phone! This shit sees through walls,no kidding!
Got a router? Tick, your on!
Microwave surveillance
Radio 1 Piedophile DJ dies after falling into river!
Oh dear, how sad, never mind!
His love of pies probably contributed his death, weighed him down perhaps.
Fat floats on water.
I am always amazed when I see talk shows on different screens in the gym at how many influencers and opinion types there are. Add the bias suggested here and it would be a surprise if it were not more abused!
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the gov’t announced the nhs GPs would now be looking at all the adverse events and deaths post covid vaxx? And perhaps offer help.
Maybe asking about the huge level of excess deaths from 2020 onwards when normal pandemic observation would say that there should be less deaths than expected as the weakest have been culled early. This pattern is seen in countries with jab levels of no more than 30% and I presume no ongoing stabby programme. That in the US a report can look at the huge increase in 25-45 deaths – you know, the prime of life – and not go near ischaemic causes is amazing.
In my experience, and I have had a lot of interaction with journalists over the years, there are a slack handful of journalists who are focused on reporting the facts and then discussing that information in a balanced manner, warts n’all. The remainder tend to the lazy and venal, frequently driven by ulterior motives and an all consuming agenda. Anyone who disagrees with their position is an enemy who must be undermined and shut down with urgency.Their ‘facts’ and ‘truths’ trump everything else. Rationality is the prime casualty. Debate is DOA. Journalism contains an awful lot of cess – time we emptied the pit.
From the NICE guidelines:
Consider asking people about gambling (even if they have no obvious risk factors for gambling-related harm) when asking them about smoking, alcohol consumption or use of other substances (for example, as part of a holistic assessment or health check, when registering for a service such as with a GP or in contacts with social services).
The moment it’s accepted that, instead of treating demonstrably existing health problems in ways proven to be clinically effective, the job of a health service is to induce behaviour change to prevent health problems based on empirically unexplained statistical correlations, the number of such behaviours will be keep growing because there’s no amount of behaviours in other people natural busybodies wouldn’t object to and no limit to statistical correlations which can be fabricated intentionally or occur by accident to enable someone to ‘prove’ that his pre-existing theories had been right all the time.
The prominent example for this is Jeremy Clarkson. He was hospitalized because of pneumonia during a holiday in Spain about two years ago. During this stay in hospital, he was (most likely) talked into giving up smoking to improve his health. It improved so much that his life had to be rescued by an emergency ateriosclerosis operation about a year later. A scientist would now conclude that the theory that smoking causes ateriosclerosis has been disproven. A lobbyist who doesn’t give a f***k about how many people end up dying spuriously¹ because of medical misinformation spread for political purpose will start to talk and wave his hands energetically.
¹ An otherwise healthy acquaintance of my mother suddenly dropped dead during a walk about two weaks ago. I can’t help wondering if his life could also have been saved by such an operation had his doctors bothered to look for early symptoms despite he wasn’t a smoker and/or if he had been a celebrity, too.
i was given some good advice over 30 years ago. “If you torture data long enough it will confess to anything”. We have to be very careful with data – it’s just snapshots of reality.