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We asked you about $4.7M Paid to County Employees to Get Vaccinated and you responded. Here is a sampling of reader responses. To read more, click here.
I think this is very wrong. These people should be getting vaccinated out of compassion for their family, neighbors, and coworkers. And it is the morally correct thing to do. Paying someone to do what is morally correct is ludicrous. They should have been given the option to get vaccinated or be disqualified for employment. End of story.
Joseph Cox, Annapolis
Do not agree at all with the incentive programs that pay county or state employees $$ if get the Covid vaccine.
This borders on blackmail. Not to mention the legal liability that could incur if an individual gets a vaccination b/c of promised payment of $$ and ends up having an allergic reaction and becomes deathly sick and/or dies.
Angela Hogan, Annapolis
I am totally against paying anyone to get vaccinated. It is not the taxpayer's responsibility to reward people for doing what they should be doing to protect themselves.
Suzanne Mulloy, Arnold
Personally, I did/do not agree with this incentive: AACo employees being paid to get the COVID vaccine. People should be willing -- or not willing -- to get the vaccine on their own regard. It should not be a reward program for "good behavior”.
Not to mention, AACo residents had no say in the matter. Who's to say I want my money to go into another's pocket because they showed up to get sticked a few times? Even if it was federal money, and not county money, there could have been wiser ways to spend it.
Also, what does this AACo employee incentive program say about federal, state or local government officials not paying their employees to get vaccinated?
Unimpressive move by AACo leadership.
Dana Strotman, Edgewater
Yes of course it is a good idea to give government or city employees incentives to take a vaccine. First of all some people depending on their biology have a reaction to the vaccine. Second we are in a pandemic the more people we get vaccinated the less likely-hood this morphs into something worse. Third I am a polio survivor...I was separated from my parents for 2 years because of it. Vaccines we a game changer for the disease. It is time that we started holding people accountable and others who spread misinformation to people that hurts accountable in the courts...and that we all turned down the anger...we are all a part of this planet and we should all be working together...everyone affects everyone everything affects everything.
Jeanne Bowerman, Chesapeake Beach
