New Polls Show Skepticism of COVID Vaccine
Public Health and the media have long considered anyone who questions vaccine safety to be an "anti-vaxxer." As the world has been turned inside out because of COVID-19, people who likely never questioned pediatric vaccines are beginning to wonder how a rushed COVID vaccine can be safe and effective. People in droves are asking hard questions about a rushed vaccine that has been touted as the one and only path to a "new COVID normal." We're going to need a much bigger tent for the anti-vaxxer holiday party....
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New polls in the US, Germany and the Czech Republic - among others - found that 50 per cent were sceptical.
Up to half of the populations in countries including the United States, Germany and the Czech Republic say they may not get any new coronavirus vaccine that is developed.
A vaccine against the deadly virus that has swept the globe over the last six months is seen as possibly the only way for the world to return to normal after the pandemic, and scientists in hundreds of different countries are working as fast as they can to try to produce one.
However, experts have estimated that at least 70 per cent of people will have to get the vaccine in order for it to stop coronavirus, a figure that appears to be some way off based on the latest numbers.
Professor Heidi Larson, anthropologist and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "It's going to be a challenge, particularly because in general, populations are more anxious about new vaccines and that's understandable.
"But the good news is we do have time before we, hopefully, get a vaccine, so I think that we have to use that."
In the United States, a number of polls have shown that only around 50 per cent are committed to getting a coronavirus vaccine...
This week, the country's leading public health expert Dr Anthony Fauci told CNN he believed that the US was "unlikely" to reach herd immunity as a result of this, inspired by the "general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling".
In Germany, a poll this week by YouGov found that only one in two Germans would definitely get vaccinated if there was a jab available, and one in five said they definitely would not. A protest was held in Ukraine on Friday over the potential for compulsory coronavirus vaccinations...
@Brad great quote, thanks
@go Trump great video analogy LOL if only it wasn't true...
Posted by: Tim Lundeen | July 06, 2020 at 02:14 PM
Brad Call,
Thank you for your post...spot on.
Posted by: Laura Hayes | July 06, 2020 at 11:59 AM
The "ground troops" will stop coming to vaccinate us if they doubt their own safety in doing so. Don't wait until it it becomes too late to act. We must NOT take the slow-death vaccine. We cannot allow ourselves to become disabled by the Bill Gates agenda. Take a page out of Russian history:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Posted by: Brad Call | July 06, 2020 at 11:07 AM
The rebel alliance has grown! Three cheers for human intelligence. And defiance of stupidity is alive and well here in California. Yesterday I went shopping at what has become my favorite store. Obligatory "Due to State Ordinance Facial Covering Required to Enter Store" sign on the door. I waltz in, to be greeted by "Good morning, welcome to [redacted]." Finished, I went to the checker, and we had a normal conversation while she rang it up. Not a word about Newsollini's stupid masks.
Posted by: Gary Ogden | July 06, 2020 at 08:33 AM
go trump, quite illustrative.
Posted by: greyone | July 06, 2020 at 08:20 AM
Beware .. Public health tyrants (DR FAUCI AND GATES) will do whatever it takes to continue the PANDAMIC "shut-down" of our lives .. until/unless THEY GET HIGH COMPLIANCE RATE ACCEPTING WHATEVER VACCINE "MIRACLE" THEY EVENTUALLY EXPOSE EVERYONE ALIVE TO.
This means .. we will NEVER return to what our lives were just a few months ago … UNTIL THEIR VACCINE IS REQUIRED FOR ALL.
They are not going to miss this OPPORTUNITY to VACCINATE ENTIRE GLOBE.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | July 06, 2020 at 07:56 AM
In this clip, two gazelles are arguing about CV19, masks, herd immunity & vaccines. The powerful vaccine industry shows up to end the argument and save the day with a free injection.
The “anti-vax gazelle” runs away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFMq-2k7tQY
Posted by: go Trump | July 06, 2020 at 06:35 AM