Will you take the vaccine ?

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

This is a bribe if you don't really need the money, but it's coercion if you've been hammered by the shutdowns and in desperate need of money.

You are right. More important, I think they are testing to see how many of us can be bought, and what our price is.

I hope we show them, as @Mystic Wanderer said, that the majority of us value our lives and the lives of our loved ones more than this pittance they are offering, for us to be guinea pigs for their experiments, though they clearly see us as valueless.

Unfortunately,  I see the future of this as @Ninurta sees it, if the majority stands firm, they will attempt to make it mandatory. 

Our only way out of this mess, is to let them cut off their noses to spite their faces.

When the majority has their buying power limited, the beast will go hungry. It is time for us ants to wake up to the power we have and to use it.

It was just an animated movie, but it would do us well to remember this truth. 

Hopper: You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line.