A10 The BulleTin • Monday, June 7, 2021
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TODAY
TUESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
59°
LOW
40°
Partly sunny and nice
Clouds and sun with a
passing shower
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
63°
70° 95° in 1926
34°
40° 27° in 1963
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.44" in 1941
Month to date (normal)
0.08" (0.19")
Year to date (normal)
2.23" (5.21")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.91"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Today
Tue.
5:23am/8:46pm 5:22am/8:47pm
3:57am/6:23pm 4:21am/7:26pm
5:55am/8:56pm 5:50am/8:49pm
6:40am/10:16pm 6:41am/10:17pm
8:24am/11:35pm 8:23am/11:33pm
1:00am/11:35am 12:56am/11:31am
12:12am/9:58am 12:08am/9:54am
3:37am/5:47pm 3:33am/5:43pm
First
Full
Last
Jun 10
Jun 17
Jun 24
Jul 1
Tonight's sky: After sunset, the bright star
low in the northwest is Capella of Auriga.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
9
8
4
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Grasses
Very high
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
FRIDAY
68°
45°
Rather cloudy, cool; a
shower in the p.m.
EAST: Pleasant
with sunshine again
Monday. Increasing
clouds Monday night
into Tuesday.
67°
47°
Rather cloudy
Astoria
61/46
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47534
86%
Wickiup
60237
30%
Crescent Lake
24802
29%
Ochoco Reservoir
9276
21%
Prineville
77798
52%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
120
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1260
Deschutes R. below Bend
124
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1620
Little Deschutes near La Pine
89
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
16
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
2
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
280
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
15
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
12
NATIONAL
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
K-9s
Continued from A1
The dogs trained on multiple
drugs alert in the same way for
all of them, so it’s impossible to
tell whether they are indicating
the presence of marijuana or an
illicit drug. The dogs also can-
not distinguish between a small,
legal amount of marijuana or
a larger, still-illegal amount of
the drug. For police, that means
they can no longer be used to
establish probable cause for a
search.
“We won’t use our dogs
trained in marijuana because
that could be a defense an at-
torney would raise for a client,
to say, ‘Which odor did the K-9
alert on — was it marijuana
or was it an illegal drug?” said
Bedford County Sheriff Mike
Miller.
Using a dog that has been
trained to detect all drugs ex-
cept marijuana can help “guar-
antee he didn’t hit on mari-
juana, that he found heroin or
something else,” Miller said.
Miller’s office retired one dog
and is now using a second dog
for tracking and apprehension
duties only, not for drug de-
tection. His office also bought
a new dog not trained on the
scent of marijuana; that dog will
Lottery
Continued from A1
Research shows the ap-
proach doesn’t really do much.
A 2013 meta-analysis in the
journal Management Science
found traditional financial lit-
eracy programs only result in
a 0.1% change in individual fi-
nancial behaviors.
“You could almost say the
takeaway from all these finan-
cial literacy programs is they
don’t make you worse at per-
sonal finance,” Monk said.
Monk found a solution in
prize-linked savings accounts.
He started a company to mo-
tivate people to save money by
incentivizing them with the
chance to win cash prizes as
long as their money stays in the
bank. The practice was signed
into law by President Barack
Obama in 2014, and it has
proved to be a success: A recent
Steve Helber/AP
Virginia State Police K-9 officer Tyler Fridley works with his dog, Aries, at state police headquarters in Rich-
mond, Virginia, on May 10. Aries is among several drug-sniffing dogs being retired from service as this state
legalizes marijuana in July.
be used to detect other drugs.
Miller said he’d like to purchase
a second drug-sniffing dog, but
isn’t sure when he will find the
money in his budget.
Other states that legalized
marijuana earlier have had to
make similar adjustments.
“The trend is everywhere,”
said Don Slavik, executive di-
rector of the United States Po-
lice Canine Association.
“Once you train a behavior
in a dog, that never goes away.
They don’t want any mistakes,
so that is why they want to
bring in new dogs,” he said.
A 2017 ruling from the Col-
orado Court of Appeals solid-
ified concerns that using mar-
ijuana-trained dogs in places
study from the Kellogg School
of Management at Northwest-
ern University found that 110
bank branches with prize-link
savings programs saw a 41%
increase in new personal sav-
ings accounts being opened.
payoff.
“People play for the chance
to change their lives with luck,”
Monk said. “It’s like, ‘If I win,
the change is just going to be
astounding. And I’m not really
feeling the cost.’”
In designing Oregon’s vac-
cine lottery, he pushed the gov-
ernor’s team to focus on three
priorities. First, there needed to
be a variable reward prize.
“It’s a type of game prize
where not everybody wins,” he
said.
That big million-dollar prize
would motivate people to opt
in, even generating a bit of fear
of missing out (yes, he used the
term “FOMO”). Why play if
there’s no big reward?
Second, there needed to be
a chance to feel some proxim-
ity to the winner. That’s why he
urged a smaller $10,000 prize
in each of Oregon’s 36 counties.
“We wanted every commu-
nity and region to have winners
so that maybe somebody you
know won,” Monk said, “so you
could really visualize yourself
winning this thing.”
Finally, it needed to be risk-
free for participants. Monk
acknowledges this is one of
the biggest problems for con-
ventional lotteries. “I can find
you losers,” he said. “These are
people who often struggle to
make the money they’re hold-
ing in their hand and sadly, it
goes away.”
The era of games
“Look: This is the era of
games,” Monk recently told
OPB’s Weekend Edition.
With the omnipresent rise of
smartphones, more and more
of our daily decisions are being
gamified. Want to eat better or
work out faster? There’s an app
for that. We use games to sleep
better, to track our steps, even
to meet new people: Just look
at the swipe-culture of online
dating.
Monk said the trick is pro-
viding people extrinsic mo-
tivation to make better deci-
sions based on the hope of an
uncertain but potentially huge
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
89/66/Tr
Akron
87/65/0.00
Albany
88/60/0.00
Albuquerque
95/61/0.00
Anchorage
69/51/0.00
Atlanta
87/72/Tr
Atlantic City
92/70/0.00
Austin
88/64/0.00
Baltimore
96/70/0.00
Billings
76/54/0.03
Birmingham
74/70/1.33
Bismarck
85/69/0.00
Boise
77/49/0.00
Boston
94/70/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 93/65/0.00
Buffalo
85/67/0.00
Burlington, VT
95/67/0.02
Caribou, ME
78/55/0.04
Charleston, SC 82/75/0.04
Charlotte
90/70/0.45
Chattanooga
82/72/0.01
Cheyenne
89/63/0.00
Chicago
89/72/0.00
Cincinnati
83/63/0.03
Cleveland
88/64/0.00
Colorado Springs 86/60/0.11
Columbia, MO
83/66/Tr
Columbia, SC
90/72/0.70
Columbus, GA
88/72/0.11
Columbus, OH
89/63/0.11
Concord, NH
93/62/0.00
Corpus Christi
90/73/0.00
Dallas
88/67/0.11
Dayton
86/66/0.05
Denver
91/63/0.30
Des Moines
86/64/0.00
Detroit
89/65/0.00
Duluth
87/57/0.00
El Paso
100/80/0.00
Fairbanks
71/53/Tr
Fargo
91/77/0.00
Flagstaff
78/46/0.00
Grand Rapids
89/69/0.00
Green Bay
90/72/0.00
Greensboro
88/67/0.16
Harrisburg
93/65/0.00
Hartford, CT
94/63/0.00
Helena
71/48/0.00
Honolulu
86/75/0.06
Houston
91/71/0.21
Huntsville
73/71/0.48
Indianapolis
83/65/0.03
Jackson, MS
75/72/0.68
Jacksonville
92/73/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
90/74/c
83/70/t
91/69/s
91/63/s
58/50/pc
78/69/t
78/69/s
90/76/t
94/72/t
80/57/s
81/72/t
94/65/t
80/52/pc
93/73/s
83/67/s
83/69/t
94/73/s
92/71/pc
85/72/t
82/69/t
80/71/t
84/54/pc
83/70/t
79/69/t
83/69/t
85/59/pc
81/68/t
84/70/t
83/69/t
82/69/t
96/70/s
90/79/pc
81/74/t
80/69/t
89/58/pc
87/68/pc
81/70/t
87/62/pc
98/73/s
78/50/pc
92/68/pc
75/40/s
82/68/t
89/70/pc
81/69/t
91/72/t
95/71/s
76/49/pc
87/75/pc
90/78/t
82/70/t
79/69/t
86/74/t
88/71/t
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
71/52/pc
87/68/s
61/55/r
104/74/pc
93/81/t
84/62/c
80/69/s
80/60/pc
66/50/t
80/59/sh
58/55/c
90/77/s
90/67/s
57/39/pc
90/80/pc
66/51/c
64/48/sh
70/59/t
67/45/pc
88/80/r
76/65/c
77/63/s
57/39/pc
67/62/s
78/56/s
72/52/sh
90/60/s
94/82/t
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
96/75/pc
83/70/t
84/68/t
90/61/pc
55/48/r
83/70/t
79/69/pc
91/75/pc
87/71/t
80/55/t
84/71/t
95/70/c
81/54/pc
89/71/t
81/68/t
81/67/t
87/69/t
88/60/s
84/71/pc
82/69/t
83/71/t
86/55/pc
84/69/t
80/68/t
82/69/t
90/60/pc
82/69/t
84/69/t
87/70/t
83/69/t
89/67/t
91/79/pc
89/75/t
82/69/t
93/58/pc
87/69/pc
83/69/t
81/58/t
98/71/pc
62/51/c
95/71/pc
74/41/s
83/66/t
88/67/t
81/68/t
85/70/t
88/69/t
75/52/c
86/74/pc
92/78/pc
84/71/t
78/68/t
87/75/t
88/70/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
56/46/0.38
85/65/0.00
91/70/0.00
103/82/0.00
81/64/0.11
87/66/0.00
83/67/0.02
75/62/0.00
84/70/0.55
89/72/0.00
76/70/0.04
88/80/0.01
90/73/0.00
93/76/0.00
81/71/0.02
84/77/0.43
92/76/0.00
97/71/0.00
91/71/0.02
81/63/0.09
85/67/0.00
93/74/0.00
101/77/0.00
87/65/0.00
93/69/0.00
106/78/0.00
87/62/0.00
87/68/0.00
93/65/0.00
90/68/0.00
80/66/0.00
88/55/0.00
94/68/0.00
89/62/0.00
89/57/0.00
86/74/Tr
91/66/Tr
88/69/Tr
70/63/0.00
73/55/0.00
78/53/0.00
91/56/0.04
88/73/Tr
55/48/0.07
96/71/0.00
55/41/0.00
80/66/0.40
95/79/Tr
101/73/0.00
82/69/Tr
92/71/0.00
83/67/0.00
64/42/Tr
102/73/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
62/44/pc
85/68/t
82/69/t
96/70/pc
78/67/t
90/68/pc
81/69/t
70/59/pc
81/71/t
86/69/t
83/72/t
88/79/pc
84/69/t
94/74/pc
82/71/t
90/79/t
89/72/s
92/73/s
88/73/pc
82/68/t
90/69/pc
91/74/pc
93/64/pc
83/69/t
92/74/s
101/74/s
84/68/t
91/71/s
90/68/s
86/71/t
93/60/t
82/52/s
89/73/pc
88/70/t
80/51/s
84/71/t
93/70/pc
92/76/t
66/61/pc
65/53/s
69/51/s
89/53/pc
87/73/t
63/49/pc
94/70/pc
63/45/pc
77/66/t
92/77/pc
100/67/s
81/70/t
91/75/t
83/68/t
68/42/pc
99/64/pc
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
62/46/s
88/70/t
84/68/t
93/70/s
80/66/t
91/69/pc
81/71/t
72/58/pc
82/70/t
85/67/t
81/72/t
88/78/pc
80/63/t
93/73/pc
82/70/t
90/78/t
86/72/t
88/73/t
87/74/pc
83/72/t
91/70/s
90/72/pc
95/70/s
82/68/t
87/72/t
99/75/s
82/68/t
87/67/pc
88/69/t
82/70/t
91/64/t
73/46/s
88/72/t
83/67/t
75/49/s
82/71/t
90/67/s
92/76/pc
69/61/pc
65/53/s
68/49/s
89/53/pc
86/72/pc
66/49/pc
93/70/pc
72/50/c
80/68/t
92/76/t
98/67/pc
84/74/t
87/73/t
87/72/pc
72/44/pc
97/66/pc
103/83/0.00
82/56/0.09
88/66/0.01
72/54/0.01
74/59/0.00
88/78/0.00
99/81/0.00
81/67/0.08
75/54/0.04
90/64/0.00
73/52/0.00
81/70/0.00
79/64/0.52
63/47/0.00
79/64/0.00
75/60/0.00
83/60/0.01
91/70/0.00
91/79/0.00
75/52/0.00
67/49/0.00
78/72/1.32
80/67/0.00
73/67/0.33
93/68/0.00
54/50/0.08
75/64/0.00
75/52/0.00
108/80/s
77/57/t
92/72/c
73/57/pc
74/53/pc
86/76/pc
103/87/pc
85/66/pc
69/50/t
91/69/t
76/56/pc
79/70/pc
76/61/t
70/42/pc
73/62/c
75/52/pc
79/64/sh
89/72/c
90/79/sh
77/56/pc
68/53/pc
89/76/t
79/71/s
78/68/sh
88/70/t
61/48/pc
79/57/sh
77/54/pc
108/83/pc
74/59/t
89/67/c
73/59/sh
73/55/pc
86/75/pc
105/86/pc
86/66/c
72/48/pc
88/67/t
78/58/pc
80/71/s
75/60/t
70/44/c
69/59/t
76/53/s
84/63/c
86/75/c
88/79/c
72/52/pc
66/50/pc
93/79/t
79/73/s
82/69/pc
83/68/t
63/49/pc
80/60/pc
79/57/c
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 113°
at Death Valley, CA
National low: 28°
at Bodie State Park, CA
Precipitation: 3.34"
at Mena, AR
FIRE INDEX
High
High
High
High
High
Chance for a couple of
showers
TRAVEL WEATHER
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
54/49/0.48 61/46/pc 61/47/pc
La Grande
62/46/0.00 66/44/pc 70/46/pc
Portland
64/50/0.02 65/48/pc 67/49/pc
Baker City
64/39/Tr
67/41/pc 71/43/pc
La Pine
57/29/0.00 59/36/pc 57/35/sh
Prineville
61/28/0.00 62/39/pc 57/38/pc
Brookings
61/45/0.00 56/45/pc 55/44/pc
Medford
74/47/0.00 69/49/pc 68/46/c
Redmond
65/32/0.00 61/38/pc 63/37/pc
Burns
69/33/0.00 71/39/pc 71/41/pc
Newport
57/45/0.02 56/44/sh 56/45/pc
Roseburg
69/45/0.00 67/48/pc 64/44/pc
Eugene
68/41/0.00 65/45/pc 65/42/pc
North Bend
63/44/0.00 61/48/pc 61/46/pc
Salem
68/43/0.01 65/47/pc 67/45/pc
Klamath Falls
69/29/0.00 65/37/pc 60/36/pc
Ontario
77/51/0.00 78/54/pc 82/57/pc
Sisters
55/32/0.00 60/41/c 62/37/sh
Lakeview
71/33/0.00 71/36/pc 64/36/pc
Pendleton
64/48/0.00 64/46/pc 72/48/pc
The Dalles
68/53/0.00 69/48/c 72/50/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
71°
47°
A couple of showers
possible
Cloudy
Umatilla
70/47
Rufus
Hermiston
65/47
69/48
68/50
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
68/48
65/43 65/48
64/41
Wasco
66/39 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Partly
Tillamook
65/37
65/47
64/46
Sandy
69/48
McMinnville
59/43
sunny and pleasant
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
61/46
Maupin
Government
63/44
Monday. Increasing
66/44
66/38
Camp
65/46 Condon 61/44
Union
Lincoln City
clouds Monday night.
59/41
52/38
67/42
Salem
56/44
Spray
Mostly cloudy Tuesday.
Granite
Warm Springs
65/47
Madras
64/42
Albany
61/36
Newport
Baker City
63/42
63/43
Mitchell
56/44
62/45
67/41
WEST: Mostly cloudy
Camp Sherman
61/37
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
with isolated showers Yachats
59/39
61/38
62/43
Day
Prineville
68/41
Monday and Monday 54/44
Ontario
Sisters
62/39
Paulina
67/41
78/54
night. Some sun and
Florence
Eugene 60/41
Bend Brothers 64/37
Vale
scattered showers
59/47
65/45
59/40
60/35
Sunriver
77/55
Tuesday.
Nyssa
57/39
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
78/55
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
59/36
63/37
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
76/44
63/44
64/45
Fort
Rock
60/45
71/39
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
63/35
69/38
High: 84°
58/35
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Rome
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
59/46
67/48
65/36
76/44
Low: 28°
Marsh
Lake
74/40
Port Orford
59/33
64/35
at Prineville
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
59/48
Pass
81/46
Chiloquin
70/38
71/47
Rome
Medford
60/38
Gold Beach
69/49
82/46
55/45
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
80/45
65/47
65/37
80/43
56/45
71/36
Seaside
60/46
Cannon Beach
59/46
SUNDAY
70°
49°
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Games of the free
Since Oregon’s announce-
ment, vaccine lottery fever has
swept the country. Both Cal-
ifornia and Washington have
announced their own lottery
programs to pump up vaccina-
tion efforts. (Ohio ‘unlocked
a secret’ through the nation’s
first million-dollar vaccination
lottery, in the words of a White
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Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
where the drug is legal may not
withstand legal challenges.
Kilo, a Moffat County Sher-
iff’s Office dog trained on mul-
tiple drugs, alerted on a man’s
truck during a 2015 traffic stop.
Officers found a methamphet-
amine pipe containing white
residue. The court found that
Kilo’s alert was not a reliable
indicator of illegal activity be-
cause the dog could not dif-
ferentiate between marijuana
and an illegal drug. The court
overturned the man’s drug
possession conviction, finding
that police did not have legal
grounds to search his truck.
The ruling was later upheld by
the Colorado Supreme Court.
In Massachusetts, where rec-
reational marijuana became le-
gal in 2016, the Quincy Police
Department shifted two dogs
from drug detection to patrol
work, then retired them about
18 months later.
Lt. Bob Gillan, the depart-
ment’s K-9 Unit Supervisor,
said drug traffickers quickly
figured out how to raise doubt
about the legality of a search by
a dog trained to detect mari-
juana.
“Usually, when they’re deliv-
ering their illegal drugs, they
will always have marijuana
burning in the car. Any defense
attorney worth his or her salt
will say, ‘Well, your dog hit on a
legal substance,’ (not the illegal
drugs),” he said.
Sgt. Scott Amos, the canine
training coordinator for Vir-
ginia State Police, said that
with the July 1 legalization date
approaching, police are busy
training new dogs to detect
MDMA, also known as ecstasy;
cocaine, heroine and metham-
phetamines, while also getting
13 dogs ready for retirement.
Apollo, Aries, Bandit, Blaze,
Jax, Kane, Mater, Nina, Reno,
Sarge, Thunder, Zeus and Zoey
are being adopted by their han-
dlers, Amos said.
Cumberland County Sher-
iff Darrell Hodges said his of-
fice recently had to retire its
drug-detecting K-9, a Belgian
Malinois named Mambo. He
said his 17-person department
doesn’t have the money to pur-
chase and train a new dog.
“You work with them day in
and day out, and they become
part of you, and to just take it
away is kind of tough,” he said.
Hodges said all turned out
well for Mambo, who was ad-
opted by his handler.
“The dog is actually living a
wonderful life,’” he said. “He has
his own bedroom in a house
and is getting spoiled rotten.”
House senior adviser.)
Initial findings suggest the
incentive may be working in
Oregon. Daily vaccinations
are up in several rural coun-
ties: Marion County is report-
ing a 2.3% increase, Sherman
County is up 2.5% and Gilliam
County up 2.1% since before
the lottery was announced.
These are places where previ-
ous trends had anticipated a
decreasing vaccination rate.
On Friday, Gov. Kate Brown
announced the state is closer
than ever to reaching the 70%
vaccination threshold that will
allow the economy to fully re-
open. The Oregon Health Au-
thority estimates that Oregon
will reach that goal by June 21
at the latest.
But Monk said the biggest
change might come once gov-
ernments wrap their heads
around how effective games are
as a motivator.
“It’s a carrot,” he said. “For
those freedom loving folks out
there, there’s something here
that’s pretty interesting because
there’s no mandate, right? It’s
about building an incentive
and allowing you to choose.”
One of the major tensions
in American life this year has
been the friction between
well-intentioned government
regulation and the bristling of
individuals and communities
who feel their rights are being
trampled. Monk hypothesizes
there are countless ways gov-
ernments could create more
systems that incentivize people
to opt in to healthier, more pro-
ductive behaviors, rather then
penalizing them for opting out.
“I’d love to see it applied to
education, maybe welfare-to-
work or personal health. What
if instead of a health care man-
date there were health care
prizes?”