Wednesday, June 03, 2020

A Closed Border Cannot Hold Back All The Crazy.

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Last week the National Post published a story by Calum Marsh about conspiracy theories regarding COVID-19 and the origin of the virus that causes it.

One upshot is that a significant proportion of the Canadian population is not immune.

To being infected by said theories, I mean:

...A recent poll conducted by Carleton University in Ottawa found that 11 per cent of Canadians believe COVID is a 5G cover-up, and more than a quarter believe the claim that COVID was concocted as a weapon by the Chinese. A separate poll by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that 15 per cent of Canadians believe Bill Gates is responsible, while another 15 per cent believe COVID doesn’t actually exist...

A. Reader recently sent us the Leger poll concerned (which the NaPo story did not link to).

The picture is actually more frightening for our collective body politic than you might have thought:




And here are the side-by-side numbers with our Southern neighbours:




It would appear that our smugness cup on such matters should stop running over, immediately.

OK?


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Leger is doing rolling polling on Canadian opinions about Covid-19 from a whole lot of angles with the Association for Canadian Studies...Interestingly, at least at first pass, I couldn't find the conspiracy polling in their library, except for a link to the NaPo story...If the actual data are out there for public viewing I'm pretty sure NVG will find it...



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