Polling the Unvaccinated: Why Canadians Say They Won’t Get a COVID Vaccine

Global News ^ | November 3, 2021 | Amy Judd

[nickcarraway]

Health officials have said Canada’s fourth wave of COVID-19 is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

According to data compiled by the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford, when it comes to Canada as a whole, eight per cent of residents remain unvaccinated.

A new poll from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute suggests unvaccinated Canadians’ top reasons for avoiding the vaccine are “personal freedom” and “health concerns.”

Canada is the 14th most vaccinated country in the world, but a third of those polled said the main reason they haven’t received a vaccination is because COVID-19 is not a “serious health threat.”

When it comes to men and women, the findings suggest men, in particular those aged 18 to 24, refused to be immunized at a higher rate than women.

Twelve per cent, or about one man in 10 polled, said they will not get the vaccine.

For women, those in the 18-to-34 and 35-to-54 age groups were the most vaccine-hesitant.

According to the survey, those in households earning between $150,000 and $200,000 annually are the most likely to say they won’t get vaccinated.

Households earning more than $200,000 a year and those making between $25,000 and $50,000 were equal in their decisions not to be vaccinated.

Indigenous Canadians polled were twice as likely as those who do not identify as visible minorities to refuse the shot.

The provincial and federal governments still have much work to do to overcome generations of mistreatment of Indigenous peoples within the medical system, the pollster said.

Aside from looking at who is vaccine-hesitant and how they identify, the survey also looked at why.

While Canada has been successful in providing access to the vaccine, those polled showed a lack of confidence in its safety, with about 58 per cent, or three in five polled, saying they have ongoing health concerns when it comes to vaccination.

An equal number of people stated one of the main reasons for not getting the shot as being one of personal freedom.

Finally, when asked about various statements around the vaccine, the majority of those polled said it’s government’s overreach to require vaccine passports.

More than 50 per cent said the health risks of COVID-19 are overstated, and just under 50 per cent said they don’t need a vaccine because their immune system can handle the virus.

Just over 40 per cent of people mostly agreed with the statement that the side effects of the vaccine are more serious than the virus itself.

The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2021, among a representative randomized sample of 5,011 Canadian adults who are members of Angus Reid Forum. For comparison purposes only, a probability sample of this size would carry a margin of error of +/- 2.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding. The survey was self-commissioned and paid for by ARI.

[BenLurkin]

As Mike Rowe said:

‘The fact is, millions of reasonable Americans have every right to feel confused and skeptical. Those people you refer to, Steve – the ones now telling us that we can “get back to normal just as soon as everyone is vaccinated” – those are the same people who said, “two weeks to flatten the curve!”

‘Those are the same people who told us that masks were “useless” before they told us they were “critical.”

‘Those are the same people who told us that a return to normalcy would occur just as soon as “the most vulnerable” among us were vaccinated. Then, just as soon as “half the population” was vaccinated. Then, just as soon as we achieved “herd immunity.”

‘Those are the same people who told us they wouldn’t trust ANY vaccine developed under the last administration. Now, those very same people are belittling the skeptics!’

[Steve_Seattle]

Well, at least they are finally ASKING people WHY they don’t want THESE vaccines.

[Hieronymus]

Q. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A. A fish.

Q. How many Canadians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A. Have you been vaxxed?

[matt04]

Wait, so supposedly Canada has a 93% vaccination rate but yet they’re in their fourth wave? How can that be?

[LambSlave]

The most successful people are the ones who don’t want the jab— go figure.

[nascarnation]

This seems to confirm the vax numbers: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccination-coverage/

[Hieronymus]

The most successful people are the ones who don’t want the jab— go figure.

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And those who have generations of experience dealing with paternalistic incompetent government bureaucrats.

In the U.S.—Blacks, the highly educated, and conservatives. Canada is a little different but not a lot.

[hecticskeptic]

Stunning how many Canadians are EGT’d. I suspect it’s natural that that the percent of people who get EGT’d goes up in proportion to the percentage of people who generally trust the media and by extension, it’s proportional to the percent of people who have bought into the fear porn.

[politicianslie]

Wait, so supposedly Canada has a 93% vaccination rate but yet they’re in their fourth wave? How can that be?

That's a really easy question to answer.

IF you look at another highly vaxxed country, you'll see that they have multiple waves too. The biggest wave started in 2021 when they started vaxxing.

In July, they started their boosters. Notice that the latest wave started right after their boosters.

If you look at the second image, you'll see that more Israelis have died during 2021 with the vaxx than died in 2020 when no one was vaxxed.

As you look at the third graph you'll notice that the higher percentage is vaxxed, the more cases. The more cases, the more die, vaxxed or not.

Any intelligent person looking at this data after they verified it's true would conclude that the vaxxxx programs are a disaster. Also notice that Israel is at the top of the graph, they are as bad as it gets.

What will the White House response to these FACTS be? The answer is they will say the vaxxes are perfectly safe and >95% effective.

And this is before anybody talks about the significant number of agressive cancers being found in the vaxxed. The concern is that the vaxxes significantly degraded the body's immune system that would normally stop these cancers from growing. Remember when the Fauci types said these vaxxes do NOT affect the body'd genes? The answer is HE LIED.

Bottom line is if anybody tells you to get vaxxed, then just say NO!

[matt04]

Excellent find. Seems like they are stuck around 77% jabbed to some extent. Depending on Province, the trend looks like it ticks up around 1% each month and has been steady like that for several months now.

[TheDon]

Agreed. They have been avoiding doing so.