More than a quarter of adults in the E.U. are either “very unlikely” or “rather unlikely” to accept a Covid vaccine, according to the results of a new survey conducted by the E.U. agency Eurofound. Here are the key findings.
The stated intention to get vaccinated varies considerably among Member States, with an important east-west divide discernible across the Union. With the notable exception of Austria and France, the intention to get vaccinated is over 60% for all western Member States – with Nordic and Mediterranean countries, Denmark and Ireland having even higher rates – while among eastern Member States the rate is dramatically lower, ranging from 59% in Romania to 33% in Bulgaria.
The report notes that people in the prime age group (aged 35-49 years) are more sceptical about vaccines (29%) than younger and older age groups (26% and 27%, respectively). Unemployed people (39%), those with a long-term illness or disability (39%) and full-time homemakers (33%) are more vaccine hesitant than people in employment (26%) or people who are retired (23%). The least vaccine averse are students (13%).
According to the survey, fielded in February and March 2021, the main reason for vaccine hesitancy is a lack of trust in the safety of the vaccine. Almost half of those who are unlikely to accept a Covid vaccine believe that the risks associated with the virus are exaggerated. Eight per cent believe that Covid doesn’t exist at all.
Trust in the news media, pharmaceutical companies, national government and national healthcare system is lower among the hesitant than the non-hesitant. Use of social media as a primary source of news and information is identified by the survey’s authors as bearing a “strong association [with] vaccine hesitancy”, despite the fact that the non-hesitant report as being more trustworthy of social media (albeit only marginally).
The survey does not distinguish between different Covid vaccines, though it is likely that hesitancy rates are greater for the AstraZeneca vaccine because of fears over its relationship with blood clotting. In Denmark, where the AstraZeneca vaccine has been dropped from the national rollout, a recent survey found that far more Danes would decline to get an AZ Covid vaccine (33%) than would refuse to get a Covid jab altogether (7%).
The results from the Eurofound survey are worth reading in full.
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As opposed to monkey see monkey do in the UK
“The least vaccine averse are students”. How depressing and what hope for the future.
Students are regularly recruited for trials. If there’s a reward of beer money involved, many will take it.
Where are they supposed to spend beer money nowadays?
They are the snowflake generation, melting into zombiedom at the slightest application of coercive heat.
I dunno, it seems to me most of the worst offenders are middle aged and up…they’re scared shitless they’re going to die walking past a diseased non vaccinated, after having been fed on fear for over a year. A lot more kids and young skeptics than those 40+. At least that’s been my experience.
all the young people i know [ not many at least ]are the worst , they’re full flegded members of the new religion .
Millennials and Gen Z- our downfall.
Thanks mainly to moralistic boomers miseducation of them.
It’s all explained in and was forecasted by the book The 4th Turning.
Moralistic? More like relativistic, if boomers bothered at all.
I was on a hike with a gen z-er today, one of our old normal prayer group. Mind you, he is rather good at thinking for himself. Has the makings of a jolly good politician too, if he can be bothered.
Just shows how social media influences everything in that age group….impressionable, gullible, fad following, conformist fools, all.
And within ten years this credulous lot will be packing onto the benches of Westminster, enjoying accelerated career paths in the Civil Service, have multimillion investment portfolios under their control, and writing earnest environmental articles for the BBC and MSM. If we aren’t already a puppet nation, be sure PMQs will look like an episode of Thunderbirds by 2031.
They will be in their graves
that must be it . i could not believe it not a single one[ of the few i know ] a l .s . they dont think for themselves anymore. total sheep
I think I’m one of about 3 openly lockdown sceptic students on my uni’s campus, and I’m only a student by some definitions, by other definitions I’m staff, things get a little blurred in certain academic roles.
Eastern Europeans have a long history of resisting government propaganda and distrusting government actions. They know that governments don’t function for the benefit of the people.
so basically less than one third have brain intact and thinking clearly… well unfortunately for us unless we are still the minority 🙁
I think its unlikely France will exceed 50%, today its at 13%.
If the population stay as they are the ‘health passport’ will go the same way as the tracking app, a minority sport.
I still travel in hope, although its sometimes difficult to stay positive.
The correlation between mistrust of current government directives / propaganda and a cultural memory of the deprivation, cruelty and lies of Communism is striking
I now have a lot more respect for the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic than before. It takes courage to swim against such a powerful tide. Andy Murray on the other hand…..
What about that Novak Djokovic? He is an extreme Serbian nationalist supporting lies, propaganda, people and institutions that committed war crimes and genocide during wars in the 1990s in ex-Yugoslavia. He is swimming with the current back home on issues much worse than covid19 vaccine passports. Plus, he keeps his residence in low-taxation Monaco so he doesn’t have to pay taxes in extremely poor Serbia. At the same time Serbian government and press praise him and reword him for spreading Serbian bulshit propaganda around the world. This is typical of Serbian nationalists/patriots. Bunch of murder-supporting maniacs who profited from wars, extreme nationalisms/fascisms in one way or another.
Cut Serbia some slack and all. You get the same in all places where people feel afraid, including the UK.
(And I’m not talking Guildford).
People from Serbia (especially various ethnic/regional/political minorities, but ethnic majority as well) and other non-EU European countries should be cut some slack by not making freedom of movement into and back from EU and UK, and US and Canada so difficult with ridiculously crazy visa requirements and bureaucracy.
Regarding Serbia itself as a state with its political and para-political structure, and people like Novak, they can go f… them selves.
Cut him some slack, he’s from Dunblane.
(How annoying must it be to get that come up every time you search your home city?
Being in hospital, I’m absolutely fascinated by the contradiction between the discussions about the safety of appropriate medicines and their dosages, and this cavalier spraying around of unapproved, untested snake-oil amongst the whole population.
I’ve just asked if my antibiotic dose could be moved forward a bit (it’s now more than the 12 hrs since the last) – I have an emerging infection that has recurred after a procedure – as I was warned it might.
Not desperate -but I have long experience of this situation, and this might pre-empt things.
But ‘no’ – a particular time has been committed to paper and Vee haf our orders’
I’m not vaccine hesitant
I am vaccine adamant
There is no way they are putting that poison in me
A vaccine dandy highwayman?
There’s that derogatory term, “hesitant,” again!
It’s not vaccine hesitant, it’s vaccine intelligent.
propaganda resistant.
Mathematically competent.
In my language, they are vaccine averse not vaccine hesitant.
But this sounds like a blanket position on vaccines. What’s at issue, here, are three specific (rather far from fully tested) products that arguably (at the very least) don’t qualify as vaccines.
Maybe “risk aware”, “health conscious”, “vivisection unenthusiastic”.
Yes, and they could be shooting themselves in the foot, by tweaking the definition of ‘vaccination’ (to be generous of my interpretation). Who, or what, is behind it, I don’t know. WHO? The Pharma companies? A new descriptive, or marketing, name (like Aspirin, Heroin etc) might have been more suitable, rather than cobbling it into something else that is useful for other reasons. How about Covidone? You could sell that on the streets, maybe.
Essential point
vaccine realist
cant they inject people with some common sense rather?
“vaccine hesitancy” ultimate patronising Michie type manipulative use of language.
Ban it on LS.
Can someone complain about the poor quality of Fig.19. You’d think they might actually plot all 9 of the 9 data felds for the hesitant. And you’d think they’d use a sensible bar chart rather than that spider’s web graphic, would be a lot more readable without the un-necessary anglular spread.
Also, they forgot the reason I would consider refusing the vaccine “sick of this safetyst totalitarianism, would take the vaccine if we’d go back to handling covid-19 as a disease rather than as an excuse for dictatorship”. There are some very important results in two articles posted here recently, one that studies found vaccine refusal higher among coerced than free-choice-given people, the other than people will likely refuse vaccination if a passport scheme is introduced. When will the lunatics in power get it in their heads that if they really want this vaccine to roll-out easily they should stop making a fuss, let people make their own decisions, and give up on this hellish “new normal” cult of state micromanagement of every decision.
Have an axe to grind with the corrupt, murderous, lying pharmaceutical industry who conducted an all out smear campaign to get my favourite food (apricot kernels) banned in a flagrant attempt to shore up their profits at the expense of people’s lives. Bar. Stewards.
Nb, if covid “vaccines” are dangerous, does that mean we should support vaccine passports in the hope that less people will take them?
I agree entirely. I have now had 3 letters and the NHS has been ringing my mobile phone everyday this week. I feel harassed and getting angrier by the day. I will make my own decision in my own time.
I had the same problem until I ticked the box on the envelope saying not at this address and returned it. Also blocked the number (several times), reported them as nuisance calls (several times), and deleted my voicemail message (unfortunately couldn’t disable voicemail)
4 texts, 4 letters and two phone calls to date. The last call went like this:
(Stern voice) “This is Nikki from the NHS Vaccine Management Service. I’m calling regarding your vaccine plans.”
“I don’t have any plans”
“I can offer support in booking your vaccine.”
“No thanks. I’ll wait until the trial has finished.”
“I would like to help you overcome and barriers you have to vaccination.”
“No thanks”
“Would you like to continue this call?”
“No.”
Line goes dead.
Stop using “vaccine hesitant/hesitancy”.
I’m not hesitant, I’m not taking it.
Stop using the language of the enemy for goodness sake.
I’m mad as h… and I’m not taking it any more!
Lots of people apparently suffering from a magnetic arm, at the site of the ‘vaccine’ injection, could this explain why?
‘Superparamagnetic nanoparticle delivery of DNA vaccine’
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24715289/
Thanks for the interesting link.
There are quite a few built in assumptions in that report – the heading “Factsheet” to start with; I suggest that it’s actually an opinions leaflet, to some extent. W.r.t. page 20, is it true that EMA “approved the use of…” generally, or was it “Emergency Use Authorisation” only? A bit selective about that, e.g.
Incidentally, the trend they’ve detected is similar to what the ONS found in their winter survey. The idea that current politicians are competent to “communicate about their safety” is for the birds now, and it will take a long time for them to recover that way!
It’s okay to be unvaccinated
I had a good laugh at this thread – the ‘discussion’ about which group is the most susceptible is a classic of hanging out the generalized prejudices on the washing line of the topic :-).