Free milk and Eggs if you get the shot in China

I am always being blasted on conservative discussion groups because I vigorously defend the Covid vaccinations.

Here, we are awaiting vaccines but the good news is that more are arriving, and the outbreak, which is most severe in the Manila and other cities, means that the cities have priority over our rural area. 

Quite a few people have told the pollsters here in the Philippines that they won't get the shot: I believe it, because our elderly cook and her (diabetic) daughter say they will refuse to take it because they are afraid of side effects.

You see: Here, even the cook and tricycle drivers have cellphone access to social media sites, and the anti vax posts on these sites have scared a lot of people. And of course, remembering the Dengue Vaccine debacle a couple years ago make people suspicious of any new vaccine.

Me? I get sick after shots (typhoid vaccine put me to be for two days and influenza made me feel lousy but hey, better than being sick). So I will probably get it if we start giving it to elders.

 I have not been following the news full time, but it seems that I have heard little about China's covid crisis. A lot of Asian countries that had few cases are now having a second wave, but so far China says they haven't had a problem.

But this caught my eye: From Weibo, their local social networking site: They are giving away Milk and eggs to encourage people to get the vaccine.

Australian news site had the story in April. LINK

• As well as offering incentives, some provincial authorities briefly blacklisted unvaccinated people from welfare 
• China has five locally made vaccines and will need to inoculate 10 million people a day to hit its targets
• There have been controversies linked to domestically made jabs in the past, including the deaths of children

According to the article, some say another reason for the hesitation is that there has been no "second wave" of the virus outbreak.

and then there are the usual "anti vax" opinions: it doesn't protect everyone, it has side effects, and long term problems haven't been checked for because of the hurried turnout.

China aims to vaccinate 40 percent of their population by June.

In contrast, 60 percent of Americans have had at least one shot. (including most of our family there).

here, thanks to various bureaucratic delays screw ups in getting hold of the vaccine, less than 2 percent have been given a vaccine.

sigh.