I wish we lived in a world where governments could implement a system to reward people that stay Covid free. We see huge amounts of money being send to people for economic boosters and social grants being paid, but no incentive to reward people that adhere to the rules and those that are staying Covid free.
Now I know a system like this will have several "loopholes" and negative implications too, because some people will try to exploit it ..by not getting tested and walking around infecting others.. to get this reward. (To prevent this, people might get regularly tested before the reward is paid out... but that would cripple the medical industry)
Currently nothing is done to incentivize people to stay Covid free.... just the fear ... but even that is not enough. (Most young people think Covid only kills older people, so they just ignore the rules to stay safe)
Let's debate this for a while and look at ways that this might work. #(Merit goes to people with the most constructive posts)#
This is an interesting proposal, however I think that the main problem is that we still do not have the resources to test most the population of a country in a cost-effective way so this can not be done regularly, this is why the tests are applied mostly to those that present symptoms already, so before we can think of any kind of incentives for those that remain free of the coronavirus we will have to solve that problem.Now I know a system like this will have several "loopholes" and negative implications too, because some people will try to exploit it ..by not getting tested and walking around infecting others.. to get this reward. (To prevent this, people might get regularly tested before the reward is paid out... but that would cripple the medical industry)
Currently nothing is done to incentivize people to stay Covid free.... just the fear ... but even that is not enough. (Most young people think Covid only kills older people, so they just ignore the rules to stay safe)
Let's debate this for a while and look at ways that this might work. #(Merit goes to people with the most constructive posts)#
Finally it is very likely that those rewards are going to be paid with money right out of the printing machine and if there is something that the world doesn't need anymore is to print more money, so if you are going to give some kind of financial reward I think it would be better that it comes in a small reduction in your taxes rather than to give money away.