United Gives Pilots Huge Vaccination Incentive

You can tell before they close the cockpit doors, all pilots have their masks off and some have them barely hanging off their faces while walking around.

Not surprising, given the high number of MAGA folks in the pilot industry.

I think your 2 options listed are very extreme, and not very impartial, think a little outside you're own views and maybe you'll come up with a middle tier of why people aren't vaccinating...

follow up to above:

I am by no means an anti-vaxxer, I have taken most shots myself and given all recommended shots to my kids (other than annual flu shots).
I am not rushing to take this vaccine, and I don't believe the Bill Gates microchip nonsense.
I'm sure there are many millions of people in the world thinking along the same lines as me.
This vaccine was rushed to production very fast and is leaving people skeptical that it's so good. There are many stories of people trying to report side effects and being silenced my social media and the mainstream media aren't reporting on it. I'm not suggesting this vaccine is bad, on the contrary, it seems to be doing its job quite well, but as someone who had covid already, I'm not running to inject new chemicals into my body when data is quite limited on effects of these vaccines.
Contrary to people like you, I don't live in fear of Covid, I live my life normally to the extent possible and wear a mask only where required to, because they're extremely uncomfortable and hard to breathe in.
I have also been heavily exposed to Covid multiple times since I recovered and don't see myself as being at significant risk of catching it again to the point I'll take a novel vaccine to stem that risk...
The risk of vaccine side effects seems to be more than the risk of me catching Covid a 2nd time and getting sick from it...
That being said, I strongly encourage anyone who does live in fear from Covid to go ahead and take the vaccine, don't live your life in fear; if you fear Covid more than any potential side effects of the vaccine, go fot it! My elderly grandparents took the vaccine and I'm all for it for them, so did my parents and parents in law...

Basically respect the fact that many don't want the vaccine (at least yet) and aren't crazy MAGA conspiracy theorists...

The 13 hours is a good deal. Remember, pilots are required to sit for 48 hours after receiving each dose by FAA regulation and this means that they won't have to take sick to continue to get paid to do so. All of the airlines are offering substantial incentives to increase vaccination rates because of the practical and political reasons behind it in the industry.

You are absolutely right. There are a large number of people who do not believe the conspiracy theory nonsense, but are still hesitant to get vaccinated. The difficulty is understandable: the risk of dying from COVID is much lower than the risk of experiencing an unpleasant side effect of vaccination. While the vaccine itself was, of course, developed in record time, the underlying technology has been in development for many years. We have gotten excellent data from the hundreds of millions of doses administered that show dangerous side effects to be on the order of 1:1000000 with the vaccines currently being used in the US. We also have data showing that past infection offers some protection against future infection, although this diminishes dramatically with the variants that are becoming increasingly prevalent. On the other hand, the data currently available show that the protection offered by vaccination is more robust, particularly against variants. I would strongly encourage you to reach out to your primary care doctor to talk about any concerns you have with the vaccine. We get new data every day, and it is a great conversation to have with your health care provider.

Ridiculous of United to offer such a big incentive for its non-customer facing employees, while flight attendants and ground staff get peanuts as usual.

So they are rational people.

Well another caveat to this is that pilots lose their medical qual to fly for 48 hours. I was able to get two days of paid time off following my vaccine, so this is likely a way to give that same benefit to their pilots who are paid in a compensation system that’s very unique to their profession.

Yes for sure, only two categories, reasonable and exaggerated unreasonables. For sure there isn't anyone that thinks for him personally the benefits of not getting (a serious form) of coronavirus does not outweigh the risks of vaccines.

It would be nice if you respect the fact that not every single citizen in the US is dying to get the vaccine...everyone has their reasons and I honestly don't see why you are so surprised as to why pilots aren't rushing to get it. They have minimal contact with the pubic compared to other jobs at the airlines such as customer service agents, but they also want to make sure that what they are injecting into their body is entirely safe and conducive to mantaining a high level of awareness and focus while flying. After all, their main priority is flying an aircraft and ensuring the safety of all of those onboard, not to just stand outside the flight deck and say "Thanks for flying with us..."

I know MANY liberals who will not get vaccinated, so this whole Republican / MAGA narrative is not only false, but.........