More than half of Brits who said they would definitely not get a Covid vaccine last winter have since had one, according to a study by King’s College London and the University of Bristol of almost 5,000 adults aged 18 to 75. In particular, there has been a notable shift in attitudes in favour of the vaccine among people from ethnic minority backgrounds. The Telegraph has the story.
While more than a third [of participants last winter] were certain they would opt for a vaccine and almost one in five thought it was likely, others were unsure or thought it unlikely. Seven per cent said they would definitely not do so.
Researchers questioned almost 2,000 of those who took part in the first survey again in April and found that 52% who had said they would definitely not get a Covid vaccine had already done so if one had been offered.
Overall, 94% of people invited for a vaccine have taken up the offer, the survey found.
The study is based on a survey of 4,896 U.K. adults aged 18 to 75 conducted between April 1st and 16st. It follows up research carried out in November and December and tracks 1,879 of the same individuals to see how their views have changed and why.
The research found that vaccine confidence has grown in many ethnic minority groups. While 36% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds had said they were certain or very likely to get vaccinated when asked in November and December, 72% of those have either now been jabbed or intend to be.
Among white people, the proportion saying the same has increased from 56% to 87%.
The survey found there are still major differences between different religious groups. While 67% of Muslims now express vaccine confidence – up from 23% last year – this is far less than among Anglicans, of whom 94% are certain or very likely to get a jab or have already had one.
Researchers said hesitancy was not driven by religious practice but by different beliefs in different religious groups, with Muslims four times as likely as the public overall to think that vaccines contain pork products.
Among this group, people were far more likely to think that the vaccines affect fertility, with 29% believing people who have had the jab may find it harder to have children in future, compared with seven per cent of the population overall who believe this.
Dr Siobhan McAndrew, a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science at Bristol, said the driving force behind the change in attitude was often the “concrete benefits of being vaccinated in terms of being able to travel and to see family and friends again”. She is quoted in the Guardian:
Part of the rise in vaccine confidence relates to social proof: people feel more confident because they observe others taking their vaccine with confidence… For some, actually being invited helped them make up their mind.
The Telegraph report is worth reading in full.
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I don’t believe any of these polls or surveys, more propaganda.
So they bought the lie that getting jabbed would hasten the day that they’d be able to travel again.
The carrot worked. But of course, we weren’t ever going to be allowed to actually EAT the carrot, were we?
The government propaganda has been incredibly successful. People have actually believed that they are in great danger from this “deadly virus” and therefore they have proven really willing to join the biggest clinical trial of experimental drugs in history. That despite there being no knowledge of the medium- or long-term consequences of those drugs and hardly any testing except in a small group of carefully chosen healthy people.
It boggles the mind that Britons have become so complacent. Airstrip One is almost our reality. A few more Bills in Parliament and we’ll be there and Ofcom can move into one of the office towers in London and brand it “The Ministry of Truth”.
Anybody who bothers to find out the track record of mRNA gene therapy wouldn’t touch the rushed Covid pseudo vaccines with a bargepole.
Those that have seccumbed to the relentless propaganda and peer pressure are unlikely to admitt their error. Burying their heads in the sand, wishing for the best, attacking those who’ve held firm.
What the ‘vaxxed’ may not realise is that taking these dangerous shots only encourages the imposition of endless boosters. When will they finally draw the line? When their health finally fails and our freedoms crushed under what is medical rape?
More fool them.
Would’ve been very interesting to see what finding would’ve resulted if , the non reported ANYWHERE, MHRA Yellow Card figures of vax deaths and adverse reactions (1,300 and nearly 900,000 reported) had been drummed into the ‘hesitant’ brigade DAILY, as the fraudulent ‘Case’ numbers and bullshit variants are!!
“Zero Tolerance Media UK News” has a full article on why the ‘vaccines’ should be suspended from use pending proper testing. And that, ladies and gentlemenn is why this 72 year old won’t be having the jab anytime soon.
If this is truly the case, there is no need for masks or lockdowns. I suspect the gaslighting is being ramped up as more detrimental information is being released
I wonder whether Christian Eriksen had his jab recently…?
I wondered that, too…
Yes but we’ll never know.
Sudden deaths/heart attacks in elite athletes have always happened but have been rare. Will be interesting to see if they become more common
apparently all the Inter Milan players did on May 31st……this has been refuted of course, with the Italians saying 12 players from Rome and 14 from Milan were jabbed (no names)…The Belgium team have been jabbed except 2 unnamed players who refused saying they had already had antibody protection having survived a bout of CONvid at the turn of the year!!
And they think we believe the main stream media. They have lost the plot!
”people feel more confident because they observe others taking their vaccine with confidence… For some, actually being invited helped them make up their mind.”
On the contrary…I am more and more horrified at the gullibility of my fellow men and women.
Hahaha hahaha. Who actually believes this.
Remember this is a war on your liberties. Truth is always the first casualty in war.
Propaganda like this is common in any war to make you less sure of your position.
‘Dr Siobhan McAndrew, a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science at Bristol, said the driving force behind the change in attitude was often the “concrete benefits of being vaccinated in terms of being able to travel and to see family and friends again”.’
Come again – concrete benefits? Folk have been short changed then, if they’ve been injected for those ‘benefits’.
It’s a hard listen since one of the participants seems to have some psychological issues, but nonetheless I have to recommend Bret Weinstein’s latest podcast. It’s extremely long, but after listening to the first half hour or so I felt completely vindicated in my choice not to have the vaccine. https://youtu.be/-_NNTVJzqtY
If you don’t know his name, Bret is an American evolutionary biologist who podcasts with his wife, Heather Heyling. Bret also did a podcast recently with Dr Pierre Kory on the protocols his team have developed for using Ivermectin to treat and prevent covid. Bonus: apparently it can be used to treat long covid. Unfortunately, YT has pulled the video since they like to censor things they don’t agree with. Glad to have heard it, but I expect the first vid I referenced to be pulled soon as well.
monkey see monkey do
Pyschology works in reverse too, as the headline demonstrates..From what I can gather fewer people would take a jab now that more data is available.
Why are LDS continuing to add to the governments pysop?
There is absolutely no justification for running an article like this.
Will posts articles that look underneath the hood , analyse misleading data and commebnts, that is why the majority come on this site. Not to read regurgitated MSM articles that just continue the mind-moulding.
I find it useful to be aware of what the enemy are up to
King’s College London – yet another of our fine institutions which has been contaminated by Gates money over recent years.
When they’ve all got their second jab it’ll be just in time to start queuing for their booster
Who would of thought that going into a shop without a mask or an exemption badge would be an act of rebellion!
”feel more confident because they observe others taking their vaccine with confidence”
When I observe how sheep behave driven down a lane onto a new grazing field, I see the exact same behaviour.
Reminds me – I came up with a name for the unvaxed yesterday: “Jabby dodgers”. Fully expect to see it in the Sun by next week.
Love it!
Coercive control is quite effective…
Yet again an uncritical post lazily adopting the framework of vaxologic.
The lazy assumptions include:
deprivation of freedom via Digital Compliance ID.
5.University studies are unbiased and can be trusted.
Reality: Academia is now totally politicised and academics will lie if they think it is the
right thing to do
6.That only 40% of original respondents took part in the follow up study is of no
consequence, whereas of course it could totally skew the results.
7.There is nothing odd in a sample study being considered authoritative on how many
people have received the vaccine.
Oh the power of suggestion, I mean, coercion. And this headline?
Well, they would say that wouldn’t they? More MSM manipulation, got to mop up those still “hesitant” and make the others feel good about their choice. It’s always about social nudging, not health.
Surely you can’t extrapolate this from that? Only 38 per cent were followed up. And I don’t understand why ‘94%’ of those 1879 people is not a whole number. How many part-people are there wandering around?
The high uptake has jack all to do with not containing pork, or not affecting fertility; it’s simply because people thought they would get their lives back. They’ve been duped, and on a massive scale.
Peter McCollough yesterday. “We believe deaths from the vaccine to be 10x what have been recorded. That’s nearly 50,000 people in the US.” He described it as bio-terrorism on a global scale.
A survey sample of just over 4000 people. Inflated to try and create a picture that says it applies over the whole nation.
From the report which can be read here
The number of people who will definitely not have the vaccine has more than doubled from 4% to 9% .
There is an interesting question about whether you believe the AZ jab causes blood clots. Only 19% of Anglicans believe this is true with 41% of Muslim respondents believing this is true.
This study is quantifying the success of the media in hiding the blood clot issue to serve the cause of full jabbing.
Only 19pct believe AZ causes blood clots? Despite the MHRA blood clot warning?
my mind is boggling
9% is about six million. If we get together that’s a lot of opposition.
Plus no doubt family and friends who will also be affected, and fair minded |”vaxxers” who simply don’t believe in discrimination.
Look at the reason quoted. It’s pure extortion – no vaccine, no social life. Disgusting, immoral and completely against the Nuremburg Code. I still can’t believe that Britain has come to this in 15 months. Will the nightmare ever end?