Hillsboro, IL. (ECWd) –
“Imagine Hillsboro, partnered with physicians at Springfield Clinic Hillsboro” to offer a Raffle.
According to a Hillsboro High School parent of teen daughters on the varsity volleyball team, the new Assistant Coach of the JV volleyball team, Beth Cady, distributed a flyer designed to entice the girls to get a COVID shot, while using their bodies as payment towards a chance at winning a Raffle drawing (lottery) for $600.00.
Click [here] to view the flyer.
This has been described as “illegal financial coercion of a group of minors” and these minors were allegedly instructed by a teacher (Mrs. Conner), while passing out the flyers, that this is just like the flu shot and their fertility is not at risk. That teacher is not a medical professional.
The school superintendent and school board are aware of this, but the school board was not aware of it at the time the flyer was distributed.
The Raffles and Poker Runs Act describes regulated activities as:
“Raffle” means a form of lottery, as defined in subsection (b) of Section 28-2 of the Criminal Code of 2012, conducted by an organization licensed under this Act, in which:
(1) the player pays or agrees to pay something of value for a chance, represented and differentiated by a number or by a combination of numbers or by some other medium, one or more of which chances is to be designated the winning chance; and
(2) the winning chance is to be determined through a drawing or by some other method based on an element of chance by an act or set of acts on the part of persons conducting or connected with the lottery, except that the winning chance shall not be determined by the outcome of a publicly exhibited sporting contest.
Section 28-2(b) of the Criminal Code describes “Lottery”:
(b) A “lottery” is any scheme or procedure whereby one or more prizes are distributed by chance among persons who have paid or promised consideration for a chance to win such prizes, whether such scheme or procedure is called a lottery, raffle, gift, sale or some other name, excluding savings promotion raffles authorized under Section 5g of the Illinois Banking Act, Section 7008 of the Savings Bank Act, Section 42.7 of the Illinois Credit Union Act, Section 5136B of the National Bank Act (12 U.S.C. 25a), or Section 4 of the Home Owners’ Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1463)
Raffles and Poker Runs REQUIRE a license, and the organization must be a bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational, veterans’, or other bona fide not-for-profit organizations that operate without profit to their members and which have been in existence continuously for a period of 5 years immediately before making application for a raffle license . . .
After considerable back-and-forth heated discussions, the school and raffle coordinators have discontinued the raffle.
17 Comments
Bill Macohe
Posted at 18:31h, 04 MayAbsolute clowns
Mags
Posted at 20:27h, 04 MayBaa Baa said the sheeple.
Just read the Pfizer and Moderna websites. They tell you exactly what this is – and it IS NOT A VACCINE.
Bill Macohe
Posted at 18:22h, 04 MayWhat an absolute clown show this site and comments section is. Good for these people trying to promote public health. Check, maybe the Mayo Clinic or something for health info instead of facebook links other clowns have made up. A lot of you people are the reason so very many are unnecessarily dead.
PK
Posted at 19:33h, 04 MayBoo!
Mags
Posted at 10:38h, 04 MayThis should trouble everyone. When have we ever witnessed people being bribed/manipulated/guilt tripped to take a vaccine (which it is not) These are not vaccines people – they are MRNA gene therapy.
Do your own research. The Pfizer and Moderna websites spell it all out for you.
The J&J more resembles a vaccine, but not in the traditional way.
Our rights and freedoms come from God. They do not come from any person or Government Entity.
What has happened to people in this Country? Why have you given up your rights and freedoms so willingly?
If you want the jab, take the jab. If people don’t want the jab that is their right. What happened at this school is an abuse of power and child abuse plain and simple.
Lord help us if we continue to tolerate this unethical and lawless behavior.
Spike Protein
Posted at 03:39h, 02 MayThis covid-19 vaccine raffle was egregiously wrong.
I don’t understand the people who proudly flaunt and proclaim to the world that they have received the covid vaccine. I also don’t understand the people who are militant about pressuring and forcing other people to receive the vaccine.
The media and government are tracking the numbers and percentage of the population that have been vaccinated and constantly harp on it. Petty tyrants like Pritzker have mandated that certain percentages of the population must be vaccinated before they will graciously restore our right to go in public mask free and live as normal again.
The omnipresent pressure to get vaccinated is oppressive, creepy, and off putting to me. This pressure crosses partisan lines. I know people from across the political spectrum, including in my own family, who are militant about the vaccine.
If you happen to be one of the people militant about the covid vaccine please explain yourself. What is your motivation and though process behind your militarism? Why are you so concerned about the vaccine decisions that other people make? I don’t want to attack you or even debate you. I just want to understand where you are coming from.
Dennis Finegan
Posted at 22:54h, 30 AprilThe “yourlifeisatrisk.com” link doesn’t work. My grandchildren returned to school, only to be sent home because there are positive cases sitting less than 6 feet away, without a mask. If you deny the Covid-19 pandemic, explain away the excess (above normal) deaths in the US in the amount of 587,406 please. Then explain it to their loved ones. Tell it to the families in India that lost husbands, wives, and children. I’ll be the spy on the wall.
Done differently, I think this would be a great way to incentivise getting a vaccine. Too bad a State law made to stop nefarious gambling got in the way.
PK
Posted at 23:40h, 01 MayThe commercial website posted here by GIG48 links to video content and other information.
I’ve heard some say grandparenting is better than parenting, perhaps selfishly so, as the comparison likens themselves to not having to deal with the fall-out from spoiling their own grandchildren.
Have another look at the flyer.
NMWTLS
Posted at 16:43h, 30 AprilThe patents describe these shots (it’s not a vaccine) as investigational – a less scary term than experimental. The shot is released, not as approved but, under the EUA – Emergency Use Authorization. You can have mine. And my booster. And the one that will come out next year or for the next variant……
PK
Posted at 23:45h, 01 MayI performed a patent search but could not determine if any of the three being used now were/are patented. The FDA does have Emergency Use Authorizations in place, however.
Sue El
Posted at 11:49h, 30 AprilCorrection: the vaccine has not been authorized as “experimental. It has been authorized as an emergency vaccine.
cynthia
Posted at 09:12h, 30 AprilClearly, the Conspiracy theorists are alive and well. I guess no one has read the new data that very very high levels of infection are now being seen in the lower age groups not vaccinated. Don’t believe me? Then list the experts from the University of Chicago, RUSH or Northwestern who told you otherwise..Yeah, didn’t think so.
Kirk Allen
Posted at 10:37h, 30 AprilThis article has nothing to do with the vaccine but rather the fact the way they are going about it violates state law.
Pete Pivo
Posted at 13:21h, 30 Aprilthe conspiracy theorists are the ones wearing the fourth reich facebands – fascists all of you.
Have you no eyes to see nobody is sick and there is no pandemic?
are you too stupid to see the cases are false positives on purpose keeping the fascists in power by emergency lockdown long enough to get the needle in your arm and for the silent holocaust!
PK
Posted at 09:12h, 30 AprilEgads to berserk…in the the flyer’s fine print, the poster attempts to make double-hitting the ball legal by directing questions to her university email account! Boo!
Jeannette A Freed
Posted at 08:39h, 30 AprilThe money part is a problem but here’s a HUGE part of the problem too. Incentivizing escaping horrible and strict quarantine contact tracing in schools that cause students to lose classroom time and extracurricular opportunity. These kids are so tired of that happening that luring them with the idea that they can no longer be contact traced should be held just as accountable. By the CDC’s numbers pediatric deaths in children aged 0-17 are 146 for 2020-21, 120 for 2019-2020. Compare that to Pediatric deaths for the flu in ages 0-17 for 2019-2020 = 434. 2018-2019 = 477. 2017-2018 = 643.
Healthy kids (ie asymptomatic kids) are being sent home every single day to isolate for 14 days because someone, somewhere deemed them “in close contact”. This is happening through the SCHOOL, sometimes not even notifying the health department.
Before, my positioning was to collect more data and see if quarantines from school were effective. Now, my positioning is that kids (K-12) should be free from all restrictions. They isolated, masked, canceled school.. to protect older generations. They did their part. Now there are treatments and vaccines for those age groups with success rates over 95%.
All restrictions for kids in K-12 should be lifted. Now.
Gig48
Posted at 08:19h, 30 AprilI think this is awful. I’m glad ECW is on top of this. I’d be furious if this was done to any family member of mine. The vaccine is authorized for “experimental use” with all people receiving the vaccine being the “experiment”. Taking the experimental vaccine should be up to the parents for their children. The fact that universities especially “state” universities are requiring students to get the experimental vaccination seems wrong to me. For more info on the vaccine and how it kills your immune system, coming from a former Gates scientist go to the video: yourlifeisatrisk.com