Nearly one in four Canadians believe officials exaggerate threat of COVID-19, poll suggests

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Respondents in Alberta were more likely to believe the threat was embellished, followed by Atlantic Canada and Quebec, with Ontario at the bottom

Regionally, respondents in Alberta were more likely to believe the threat was embellished, followed by Atlantic Canada and Quebec, with Ontario at the bottom.

Leger executive vice-president Christian Bourque said the results may explain something else that came up in the survey: That a majority of respondents said they have relaxed how strictly they adhere to public health recommendations. Over the last month, case counts have gone up for young people, with Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam warning anew on Monday that the country can’t let its guard down.Article content continued

Weekly questioning shows an uptick in the percentage of survey respondents who believed the worst of the crisis is yet to come, which hit 45 per cent on Sept. 13, the highest level it has been since April 13.

 

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Better to err on the side of caution. Relax, and they will be blamed for increased numbers AND will be difficult to rein in AND place burden on the Free Health Care system.

Probably closer to 2 or 3 per 4 ppl, but ok. At least you're getting closer to the truth.

So 25% of us are dumb as chimps. Still puts us ahead of the USA...

In other words 3 out 4 canadians have an IQ below zero and are walking zombies

. I think the numbers higher than this. More likely more than 1/2. fordnation is full of it. Threatening lockdown, however, won't put measures in to enforce masks and physical distancing! Not a pandemic then! 🤔 Ontario: NOT a place to grow! .

Total Lies again. More than 1 in 4 FakeNews at least 3/4 Stop with the fake polls. Everyone is catching onto the Scamdemic You have to be Braindead not to at this point

Poll says one in four Canadians are capable of critical thinking ...

Well I suspect the oncoming Flue season will kill more Canadians than Covit

Likely this 25% is made up of those of us who have never missed a days work through the pandemic and have kept our country running. The other 75% have been hiding in their basements collecting cerb.

The only thing novel about this CV is how: testing is done how COD is reported how healthy people are quarantined how masks magically work vs viruses how looting and Walmart is safe, but other gatherings and small businesses = unsafe I could go on...

Only 75% of us went full retard

Only 1 in 4? Uh!

Lol and 1 in 2 know the media networks exaggerate threat of basically everything!

6 months in and I still don’t know anyone who knows anyone who has been infected with covid, let alone die from it.

Sounds about right

Part of the reason behind this suspicion is the fact Covid subjects , even at risk of repetition, has monopolized the public broadcaster CBC !!! From morning till late night its covid this, covid that, covid stats, masks, live admonitions by leaders, live Q n As ad nauseum w/MDs

And hopefully more will. The data is out there now.

Real number of people who think officials are exaggerating is far higher

I feel the thing was overblown a little too much, but I also feel it's our duty to take every possible measures when we go in public to protect those at risk of dying. Would I wear a mask to limit the flu propagation if mandatory? Fuck yeah, it's common sense to me.

More than that. They're being polite, or afraid of your Leftwing Fascist attempts to scare people into conformity by calling them the WORST names one could think of... Tip, those attacks fall flat after a couple of uses. Your skin grows thick, pretty quick when you have Truth

It’s probably much more than that!

75% of Canadians have been duped.

Correction. Four Canadians to one believe this is a FAKE emergency.

This proves it.

Those would be the mask less people that I see at Superstore where they are mandatory but management doesn’t enforce their own policies.

After hearing that the “tests’ are picking up DNA from previous coronavirus infections , I cast doubt on the number of true COVID-19 cases.

So alternatively more than three in four Canadians don’t believe there’s exaggeration. Perspective is everything...

Because they absolutely do. We don’t hear much about all the people dying of overdoses and suicide right now. Also, why is there never any mention of boosting immunity and maintaining good health?

This is not SARS (technically it is) but look at the SARS outbreak.. there was no vaccine for that and look at what happened there. It went away... on it's own.

folcaraj And the other three of the four would follow those arrows on the floor right over the cliff like the lemurs they are. Should be looking at the damage to Canada's economy & way of life. That will be here long after Covid moves on.

It should be way higher. People need to do more research. The Gov is out of control. End lockdowns now fordnation

Well, they definitly slant things in a direction that serves their agenda, but of course they do that, Covid or no Covid

Because the other 2/3 have not seen the real truth. You have a 99.98% chance of NOT dying from CovID-19 according to govt. statistics on Sept 14/2020.

What’s the correlation with Fox News viewers? I bet it’s really high

I’d bet that number is actually double

Same 1 in 4 are conservatives who support trump

All that shows is that 75% of the population are idiots.

The other 3 out of 4 Canadians are sheep.

This is why some people don't believe the covid numbers. Flu, pneumonia deaths are way down. Everything is now covid. George floyd had covid!

Sad. Only one in four Canadians actually read statistics rather than relying on the evening “news”.

3 in 4.

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It's very clear that our education system has problems.

Should be higher, but Canadians are sheep.

Seems low

Nearly 1 in 4 Canadians that can’t grasp science think they can convince the 3 in 4 that do, that the 1 in 4 are smarter than the 3 in 4.

One in four is more likely 3 in four

YUP! - Lana Kane

CDC admitted that the numbers were exaggerated did they not?

1 in 4 people over the age of 80 in Canada that get COVID-19 die. I guess if you are not a senior citizen or otherwise at risk, and don’t think about anyone other than yourself, you might view the threat as exaggerated.

On a virus that is statistically only dangerous to the very old or people with pre-existing conditions, the officials made it sound like we were all going to die and the sky was falling. So it sounds like 1/4 of Canadians are smarter than average, which makes sense.

I wonder why again 🤔

Gee I wonder why.

The real number is closer to 3/4.

Not enough.

Maybe something to do with total deaths worldwide remaining the same or less than previous years

Less than 100 ppl died under age of 60 in Canada. Not worth shutting the entire economy over. After a few months in, a risk based approach is needed we can't remain paralized in terror of infections waiting for a vaccine.

Dear God let this tsunami of stupidity finally be ebbing.

Only 25% of the population has figured this out?

we need to prevent this by telling friends and family because safety goes first and police don't exagerate but its best for us and the spread of covid19

That would be a fair assessment. When you break down the IQ of society you usually end up with only 10% being above average and the rest scoring at the IQ level of a sheep 🐑 that want the gov't to take care of them. Critical thinking and discernment are lost skills.

Four out of four Canadians think the media exaggerates the threat of covid

One fourth? Right. More fake news. Way more than that think this is bullshit

What's wrong with the other 3 in 4 Canadians?

Nearly three in four Canadians believe in the threat of COVID-19

numbers should actually be 100% believe it's a scamdemic but too many believe the media/government wouldn't lie to push their own agenda

So let's try to understand this: Nearly one in four Canadians thinks that 194,000 deceased (in the US) via Covid19 have exaggerated their condition? TheNewVehicleInYourDriveway

Poll probably underrepresents real numbers... people are afraid to speak for fear of being called conspiracy theorists or alt right

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