Talking the Bovine kind of cow - not the leftist...
[NYPost] People in the Philippines are so loath to get the COVID-19 vaccine, one town is offering free cows as an incentive, a report said Monday.
Local officials in San Luis, within the Pampanga province about 50 miles north of Manila, are raffling off a cow each month to inoculated residents as a means to encourage people to get the jab, Al Jazeera reported.
"Winning a cow might not mean much in other places but here in San Luis, we’re agricultural, so it’s the ideal incentive," Ardee Taruc, the town’s disaster mitigation officer, told the outlet.
The cows, supplied by local donors and worth about $628, could be a ticket out of extreme poverty for some residents, the outlet said. It’d be able to eat for free on an abundant supply of grass in the locale and a farmer could start a herd, use the cow to carry heavy goods and sell its milk, the outlet said.
"It’s up to the winners if they want to slaughter the cows," Taruc said.
Vaccine hesitancy, coupled with a sluggish roll out, has been a major issue in the southeast Asian country, which is grappling with one of the worst outbreaks in the region. 
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