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Nationwide US Survey: only 21.8% support Mandatory Vaccination (thetrafalgargroup.org)
3 points by Overton-Window on Aug 5, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is a disingenuous poll, in that it lumps all possible requirements into “a mandate.” The specific question was: “Do you believe taking COVID vaccines should be mandatory, or should taking the vaccine be a personal choice?”

That’s a useless question, since very few people are ever going to support the government forcibly injecting people. They didn’t ask the much more useful questions, like support for employer mandates, retail/restaurant mandates, permitting companies to mandate but not a government policy, and the other realistic choices.

If you’re thinking “Why would someone conduct a poll with a useless question like that?” it’s because the poll was paid for by https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Convention_of_States_A... . They’re aiming for a low headline number and designed a poll question to deliver that.

For neutral COVID polls, https://today.yougov.com/covid-19 is a good start.


Obvious push poll. Username checks out.




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