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Only 16% of Britons have enough sense to refuse a coronavirus vaccine

Sky News
Sun, 09 Aug 2020 19:46 UTC

Younger people were twice as likely to reject a vaccine than 55 to 75-year-olds, the study shows.

Just over half of the UK would definitely get a coronavirus vaccine, with "damaging misperceptions" affecting potential uptake, a poll has revealed.

Only 53% of Britons would be certain or very likely to get vaccinated against COVID-19, researchers at King's College London (KCL) and Ipsos Mori found.

One in six (16%) said they would definitely not get a vaccine or it would be very unlikely, the poll of 2,237 people between 16 and 75 showed.

The study found that people were more likely to reject the vaccine because of their attitudes and beliefs about science and authority, rather than reasons related to coronavirus itself.

Young people were twice as likely not to want a vaccine, with 22% of 16 to 34-year-olds saying they would not have one - compared to 11% of 55 to 75-year-olds.

People who believe face masks are bad for people's health and do not reduce the spread of the virus were among those who disagreed with a vaccine.

Of those who said they would not get one, 34% believe the government is trying to control the population by getting them to wear masks and 36% think "too much fuss" is being made of the pandemic.

People who are comfortable with lockdown restrictions easing and who have not found the outbreak stressful were also more likely to say no to a vaccine.

Other groups who would not want immunisation included those who say it is important they make their own decisions and "do not follow the rules".

Where people get information about the virus was also a factor, with 27% of people who get their news from WhatsApp claiming they would be unlikely to get a vaccine.

Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at KCL, said: "Misperceptions about vaccines are among our most directly damaging beliefs and they're clearly influencing people's intentions during the coronavirus crisis.

"While one in six in the UK say they are unlikely to, or definitely won't, get a potential vaccine, this rises to around a third or more among certain groups, with a clear link to belief in conspiracy theories and mistrust of government, authority and science.

"Vaccines are one of our greatest achievements and there is a great deal of faith that we'll eventually develop one for COVID-19 - but more still need to be convinced of how important it could be for ending this crisis."

Comment: It takes going to the original research to actually discover that the poll showed that the heavy majority (73%) are likely to get the vaccine:

So it's more like we only have 16% who have a decent ability to grasp the situation at hand by refusing the vaccine and another 11% who are uncertain. The original headline from Sky News read: "Coronavirus: Only half of Britons say they would get a vaccine, poll reveals". So why state lies when most people actually are onboard? The effort is likely an attempt to sway those who are uncertain, while attempting to get the onboard masses to shame all those 'many' dangerous rebels for not caring about 'government, authority and science'. Nevermind the corruption of 'government, authority and science' that can be witnessed firsthand. In this sense, we cannot even trust the accuracy of this survey.

Reader Comments

Christian83 · 2020-08-09T22:10:03Z

Nobody I have spoken to wants a vaccine. I think 16% is on the low side.

baron · 2020-08-10T00:19:11Z

Christian83 Probably a bald faced lie. They did the same thing with Hillary and claimed she won the popular vote. In fact independent research showed she was defeat by a margin no less than 25 to 1. A gap so great that to admit that truth would have toppled the illusion of the whole farce. So it's probably an out right lie. It's probable that the truth is the exact opposite.

klokman · 2020-08-10T02:08:01Z

Christian83 Same goes for nearly everyone in our neighborhood. My wife regularly visits with neighbors on her walks and patrons in daily activities at the local community center. Every week she reports talking to people who assert the pandemic is contrived, hate using masks, and have an aversion to being vaccinated. Nobody is sick around here. In all my visits to businesses within a 15 mile radius, I have not heard one sneeze since last winter. Not one person with a runny nose, or any kind of respiratory infection. Even the nurse at our doctor's office reported to me that there was not a single incidence of COVID infection in the community (distant suburb of KCMO) as of May.

Rowan Cocoan · 2020-08-10T02:25:53Z

baron

" A gap so great that to admit that truth would have toppled the illusion of the whole farce. "

An excellent summary of the whole damn sorry shooting match.

RC

Mr Reynard · 2020-08-10T04:20:30Z

baron Yupp.. Very likely same pollsters that gave Hillary 84% chance of winning over Donald & now they give Joe Dementia , 88% chance of winning over Donald !

LOL..

Christian83 · 2020-08-10T10:21:02Z

baron Yes I think if they were to give the real numbers out it would show that in actual fact they are facing a real battle to vaccinate everyone. Why else would you have all these studies on how to best encourage people to be vaccinated. And just in case that doesn’t work, they will go down the your not allowed to work/shop unless you prove your vaccinated.

Christian83 · 2020-08-10T10:29:37Z

klokman Yes it’s much the same where I am. They even erected a testing facility which was up for nearly 3 months. It’s just around the corner to my flat so saw it every day near enough. It was open for just one day and the people that I spoke with who lived opposite told me that in that one day they only saw about 8 vehicles use it. My town has a population of approx 250-300,000 people and this was the only testing facility available so that tells me that everything I need to know. The local newspaper was constantly spreading the narrative, even running stories about how they were turning the hotel into a emergency hospital. Was never used. They also said in a story that the testing facility was used over a thousand times a day! When I uploaded 2 videos proving that they were never used I was blocked from my local newspapers website!

Rowan Cocoan · 2020-08-09T22:25:08Z

As I've said before, remember that the entity which conducts and reports the polls, IS the BFM.

As C83 notes, "16% is on the low side", and we know which way the BFM prefers the results.

RC

Rowan Cocoan · 2020-08-09T22:31:26Z

Rowan Cocoan By way of example, realize that the BFM could report:

"less than one percent will refuse the vaccine" which is, frankly, not a story at all - even for the BFM; or,

if the best that they could slant this scam was that only 2% of people WOULD be OK with a vaccine/ over 65% NOT OK with it, then we know that the BFM would never have covered it.

Such analyses are a time honored* and valid method to determine the real motive behind reports.

R.C.

*I bet some ancient Greek (or other ancient 'ancient') wrote about this truth. Anyone know?

RC

graeme15b · 2020-08-09T23:15:36Z

Not that this 'study' is accurate, I highly doubt it, but they done this so-called ''research'', that is telling. The 'experts', who have never got anything right EVER!, tell us that breathing is dangerous, thinking causes infectious mental disorders, the sun kills, eating meat destroys solar systems, freedom oppresses others, carbon is flatulence, courtesy of satan.

They should be locked up.

Ruth · 2020-08-10T04:57:43Z

Seems to me to be a deliberate mass extermination campaign.

Rowan Cocoan · 2020-08-10T05:11:24Z

Ruth Imagine if you were ... not Larry Silverstein, but one of his many minions (and as we know, he's but a minion himself, as are all but one) and you needed to cull the human population of earth. You could orchestrate, with impunity and immunity, the deaths of over 20% of the globe!

Team FUKUSraHell would then give you a raise, and maybe you could aspire to where they gave you a first floor room in Epstein's condo, where St. George (Da 'Landlord') Floyd is a gardener.

We should never forget their tactics; we should try to awaken others to these sillily obvious scams.

RC

Neizvestno · 2020-08-10T05:39:35Z

What percentage would be comfortable honestly/definitively answering a poll, or participating at all, about an issue around which there's been so much irrational anger and embracement of extreme government control?