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0 points0xy4y ago0 comments

Let's see where your data comes from. Ah, COVID-19 Monitor, which gets it from Vox Pop Labs. [1]

>The data presented herein are derived from survey data produced using Vox Pop Labs' online public affairs panel

So, it's useless... their primary method of polling is journalists interviewing people that they select? The people that do not support mandates generally do not support journalists, making this survey utterly useless and biased from the start.

If you look at a reputable pollster, and not a couple of ideologues sitting in a room, you'll find large swathes of populations that are very skeptical of mandates, even in very liberal Europe. [2] In Germany, a whopping 62% are against it. While in France, it's 75% against.

[1] https://covid19monitor.org/

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/02/03/as-pandemic-co...

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tomjakubowski4y ago

The pew survey you linked is from February of last year, before vaccines were available and before their extreme effectiveness in preventing serious illness was known. Have they done more recent surveys in those countries you mentioned? More to the point, have they surveyed Canada recently?

France is well known as a vaccine hesitant country for what it's worth.

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