Posted on 12/20/2021 11:52:12 AM PST by george76
Nearly two thirds of boostered individuals reported concern about contracting the virus despite getting their shots, while only 12% of unvaccinated people said they were worried about catching COVID.
A new poll has found that people who have been fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 are significantly more concerned about contracting COVID-19 than unvaccinated individuals, despite the measures taken ostensibly to protect themselves against illness.
The independent poll, conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in New Jersey and published December 15, suggests that people who are afraid of contracting a variant of COVID-19 do not have their fears assuaged by vaccination, despite promises by public health officials and legacy media pundits that the jabs significantly cut down the risk of hospitalization or death.
According to the study, which surveyed 808 U.S. adults between December 2 and December 6, 51% of adults who had been “fully vaccinated” said they were concerned about catching a new variant of the coronavirus, while 66% of those who were both “fully vaccinated” and had gotten a booster shot said they were concerned.
Comparatively, only 12% of those who had opted not to get the experimental injections said they were worried about catching a new variant.
Concern about the virus also reflected political divides, with people identifying as Democrats far more likely (56%) to say they were worried about a family member getting sick from COVID compared to only 13% of Republicans. Similarly, Democrats supported the reimposition of masking and social distancing rules at nearly four and a half times the rate of Republicans, with 88% of Democrats in favor compared with only 20% of Republicans.
Despite political differences shaping support or rejection of measures like vaccination and mask mandates, 60% of respondents across the political spectrum broadly agreed they felt “worn out” by the impact the COVID response has had on their lives, while nearly half expressed anger about the changes they’ve been forced to make in their lives in the wake of the mandates, restrictions, and coercive strategies introduced ostensibly to slow the spread of the virus. Republicans more likely (63%) than Democrats to express anger about the disruptions caused by the COVID response (34%).
The poll also found Americans were less likely to approve of President Joe Biden’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic than they were in previous months, with respondents evenly split on whether they thought Biden was doing a good or bad job (46% each way).
The report noted that the December findings showed a significant dip in the public’s approval of the president, who promised repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would “shut down the virus.”
Prior to this most recent poll, “Biden’s ratings on the pandemic had consistently been in net positive territory” with November’s results drawing in 53% approval and 41% disapproval. Now, however, Biden has suffered a 12-point slide among independents (from 50% to 38%) and a “noteworthy” 13-point decline in states he won in 2020 (from 60% approval to just 47%), while losing six points among Republicans and two points among Democrats broadly.
The results come as more people have reportedly died with COVID-19 in 2021 following the roll-out of Pfizer’s double-shot mRNA drugs in December 2020 than during the peak of the pandemic before the injections hit the market, leading to speculation about the actual effectiveness and safety of the shots.
According to the data, roughly 800,000 people have passed away with COVID-19 listed on their death certificate over the past 20 months, 62% of whom have died after the jabs were made available.
Meanwhile, researchers and public health officials have been forced to acknowledge that the efficacy of the experimental injections is failing. In November WebMD admitted that all of the drugs currently on the market have suffered a serious drop in efficacy over the span of 6 months.
According to the report, the efficacy of the Moderna mRNA jab plunged from 89% effectiveness in March to 58% in September, while the efficacy of Pfizer/BioNTech shots was nearly halved in the same period, beginning at 87% and falling to just 45%. The reported effectiveness of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot injection also nosedived from 86% to just 13%.
Last month, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged that a “significant” amount of vaccinated Americans are being hospitalized for COVID-19 and began calling for universal booster jabs which he said are “going to become a part of the standard regimen.”
The mass immunization program, which now increasingly includes booster doses, comes in spite of the fact that the vast majority of people face a vanishingly small risk from the virus — the CDC reports an infection survival rate of greater than 99.95% for those under age 50 — and fails to take account of the fact that people who have already contracted the virus have in large part developed a natural immune response to it.
Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, an internist, cardiologist, and professor of medicine at Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center who has testified before committees of the U.S. and Texas Senate, has stressed the importance of naturally acquired immunity and decried the push to vaccinate even those who have a natural protection against the virus.
“People who develop COVID have complete and durable immunity,” McCullough said. “You can’t beat natural immunity. You can’t vaccinate on top of it and make it better. There’s no scientific, clinical or safety rationale for ever vaccinating a COVID-recovered patient.”
Public health officials and politicians in the U.S. have repeatedly hinted that the definition of “fully vaccinated” will be updated to include a third dose.
On Thursday, New York’s Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she will introduce legislation that would update the definition of “fully vaccinated” to include a booster shot.
and infertility, and immune deficiency
There’s your “normal”, as defined by Fauci in the Spring of 2020.
I looked more closely at the survey results.
It was 66.6%.
;-)
Makes sense. The type of person who chooses to get a booster is probably more worried about COVID IMHO than someone who chooses not to.
Because they WILL...
You will get EXPOSED period...
And most, just like the common cold, or the flu, will eventually get it, and NOTHING is going to stop it...
No booster, no vaccine, no nothing...
Vaccinations do not prevent you from getting it or spreading it... PERIOD.
You have been told LIES for 2 years now... Above is the TRUTH.
Their fear is well founded.
It is called brain washing.
They are SHEEP.
Worried?
You mean because so many news stories say in the tenth paragraph “and they had two shots and the booster” but still got sick?
and that anxiety likely makes them more vulnerable....
If you get your “news” from the CCP News Network and read all the propoganda from the Seedy Sea (aka CDC) you will definitely be neurotic if not beyond borderline paranoid.
The unvaccinated understand math.
so they’ll get another booster, be concerned again then get another booster. Where are all these idiots coming from?
+1
COVID-19 is airborne.
That means, “in the air, everywhere”.
It is ENDEMIC.
We will ALL get exposed..over and over.
MANY of us will “test positive”, mostly without symptoms.
SOME of us will be “symptomatic”, and a subset will be really sick.
And (unfortunately) a FEW of us will die.
This is NOT the Bubonic plague.
This is NOT the Spanish Influenza.
You can’t mask it away.
You can’t [anti]”socially distance” it away.
You can’t even “deep clean” it away.
And {{{shudder}}} YOU CAN’T EVEN VACCINATE IT AWAY!
Tear off that face diaper.
Breathe deeply. Inhale some COVID.
Build up your immune system.
And LIVE!
Only 66%? There is so much confusion floating around that I’m actually surprised that number isn’t much higher.
I for one believe little of what pro-vaxcer Dr. Fauci says. And I believe little of what the anti-vaxxer doctors say. Too many folks are playing too many angles here.
The Vaxed SHOULD be concerned about getting infected. Omicron’s mutations are exactly where they need to be to penetrate immunity. Any kind of immunity.
I have my booster shot but I’m not worried about the inevitable...
Well, they should be worried about future side effects of the notavax.
But, yeah, the notavax is worse than useless.
They will be getting Omicron.
In other news, responders at O’Hare airport were 76% less afraid of flying than those questioned at a Fear of Flying support group.
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