By National Review. West Virginia will give away guns, trucks and cash to incentivize state residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Governor Jim Justice announced Tuesday.

Drawings for a new vaccine incentive lottery program will run from Father’s Day on June 20 to August 4. During the first drawing on Father’s Day, the state plans to give away five custom hunting rifles and five custom hunting shotguns.

Justice said West Virginia will also give out two brand-new custom outfitted trucks and five lifetime hunting and fishing licenses. Vaccinated residents stand to win one of 25 getaways to the state’s parks.

The initial drawing will also include two four-year scholarships to any state educational institution for winners between the ages of 12 and 25. The state will also give away a $1 million grand prize. (Read more from “West Virginia To Give Away Guns as Vaccine Lottery Prizes” HERE)

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California To Offer $116.5M in Vaccine Prize Money; Ohio Woman Claims State’s First $1m Vaccine Jackpot

By Yahoo News. California is hopping on the trend of cash prizes for vaccinated individuals in hopes that the incentive will stimulate its plateauing vaccination rate.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that the state is offering the nation’s largest vaccine prize money — $116.5 million — to get millions more inoculated before the state’s reopening next month.

“This is all in an effort to incentivize and build momentum,” Newsom said.

Ten vaccinated residents 12 years and older will have the chance to win $1.5 million dollars apiece, and another 30 will win $50,000 each on June 4 and June 11. Anyone 12 and older who has received at least one shot will be eligible, even if they have already received their shot.

The state is also giving $50 grocery or prepaid gift cards to the next 2 million Californians who begin and complete their vaccination, starting Thursday. (Read more from “California To Offer $116.5M in Vaccine Prize Money; Ohio Woman Claims State’s First $1m Vaccine Jackpot” HERE)

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In order to encourage American workers to get vaccinated, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has suspended the legal requirement for employers to report work-related injuries resulting from vaccinations aimed at combating the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19.

This suspension of the law by OSHA does not change the fact that employers may be held liable under workers’ compensation laws or under civil personal injury laws, according to the nonprofit group Liberty Counsel.

Earlier in May, the website of OSHA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), stated that employers could be held liable if they required employees to receive COVID-19-related injections as a condition of employment and the employees then experience adverse reactions. . .

But visitors to the same website’s FAQ section now see a different message, which reads:

“DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.” (Read more from “Occupational Safety and Health Administration Suspends Legal Requirement That Employers Report COVID Vaccine-Related Injuries” HERE)

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A Northern California restaurant is now charging patrons an extra fee if they wear a face covering inside the restaurant or if they are heard “bragging” about being vaccinated for COVID-19.

Customers entering Fiddleheads Cafe in Mendocino, California, are being greeted with a sign posted on the restaurant’s front door warning them about the new charge. . .

The message tells customers they will be dinged with an “additional $5 fee” if they are “caught bragging” about having received the COVID-19 vaccine. The sign says that all proceeds collected from the pandemic-related fines will be “donated to local charities assisting domestic abuse victims.”

Cafe owner Chris Castleman told KNTV-TV some customers have paid the fee while others have responded with outrage.

Ultimately, however, he characterized the fee as an optional donation to charity, and suggested that he implemented the fee to demonstrate how “freedom of choice” has become a “foreign concept” in Democrat-controlled California. (Read more from “Hilarious: Cafe Charges Extra Fee to Customers Wearing Face Masks” HERE)

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An expert said Sunday that finding out where COVID-19 originated from is “absolutely critical” in preventing future coronavirus outbreaks.

Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and said:

There’s going to be COVID-26 and COVID-32 unless we fully understand the origins of COVID-19. This is absolutely critical.

Hotez said that saying that the U.S. must send experts to Wuhan lab to investigate the origins, noting that an intelligence investigation is not enough.

I’m personally of the opinion that we’ve pushed intelligence as far as we can. We need a team of scientists, genealogists, biologists, bat ecologists in the Hubei province for six months to a year-long period and fully unravel the origins of COVID-19.

(Read more from “Expert Has ‘Critical’ Warning if COVID-19 Origin Not Discovered” HERE)

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