I think the govt is trying to get more people the vaccine.
That these schemes are even needed just speaks to the fact that this pandemic is not exactly stacking the bodies in the streets and causing real panic. Just based on the stats, most people have lost family members who were already old and sick. I mean, if your grandma in hospice care dies of pneumonia, it's sad but not exactly unexpected, right? Well, this year she died with COVID instead. I've seen data that somewhere between 30-40% of the US deaths from COVID were in LTC facilities. The fact is, a younger healthy person is not going to become terrified of a virus that killed his 90 year grandmother in hospice care. That doesn't make him a moron or science-denier.
Many people here have anecdotes about their perfectly healthy best buddy in the world catching COVID after his latest marathon and being on a ventilator within 24 hours. I don't want to cast doubt on those stories, but they don't fit the overall big picture.