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The attitudes and opinions of Greeks during the first 10 days of December were recorded by a diANEOsis survey, in collaboration with the survey company Metron Analysis.
According to the survey, two in three Greeks (66.3%) say they will receive the vaccine, while 27.4% say they will not, which is significantly lower than the 42% recorded in a previous survey in September. .
The percentages of those who intend to be vaccinated are higher in the wealthiest, as well as in those who declare they suffer from an underlying disease, while a very important factor is age: in those over 65, the percentage of those who intend to be vaccinated La vaccine reaches 80.4%; in fact, those who answer “definitely yes” are 55%.
As the director of content of diANEOS Thodoris Georgakopoulos explains, referring to how much of the population changed their mind, the December investigation took place at a time when in Greece we had thousands of cases, about 600 Greeks in the ICU and about 100 dead from Covid-19. every day, so the health risk was much more pronounced and obvious. More importantly, in early November, major drug companies announced that the vaccines they were developing had successfully completed the third phase of testing.
Furthermore, as is clear from the September results, and confirmed even now, in Greece there does not seem to be a strong anti-vaccine or anti-virus movement, emphasizes Mr. Georgakopoulos. According to the survey, the vast majority of Greeks have very positive opinions about vaccines in general. To the question “do you agree or disagree with the view that vaccines save lives”, 94% of respondents agree. In fact, 61% “absolutely” agree.
Of the roughly 27% who say they (certainly or not) will not get the vaccine, the main reason they cite is that “it may not be safe or have side effects.” The percentages of citizens who say “there is no virus” or “I don’t trust vaccines” to this question are very low. As Stratos Fanaras of Metron Analysis points out, “very few really question the supply of vaccines to public health and the so-called ‘anti-vaccination movement’ is limited to epidemiological terms but if public information is not honest, transparent and understandable it can speculate on ignorance and become a force to be reckoned with. “
However, as Mr. Georgakopoulos points out, it is a fact that, although many Greeks have already made the decision to get vaccinated, one in four who (probably or surely) will get vaccinated say they would have done so “among the first – a great percentage of citizens still have reservations and doubts Approximately half of those who say they intend to receive the vaccine would like to discuss it first with their doctors or relatives.
Also, according to the survey, 40.9% of those surveyed say they have had a flu shot this year, a much higher rate than usual. In fact, 8 out of 10 respondents over 65 say they have been vaccinated against the flu.
Of those who say they have been vaccinated against the flu, 84.1% say they will get the coronavirus vaccine. It is noteworthy that the majority of citizens believe that the vaccine will be available in our country “in the first quarter of 2021.”
On the other hand, as Mr. Georgakopoulos points out, even after ten months of pandemic and crisis, the Greeks still believe that, in general, in our country “things are going in the right direction”. Although the percentage has dropped significantly from a record high of 86% last April, it hasn’t changed much since September (54% vs. 57% in September). As Mr. Georgakopoulos recalls, it is interesting that this attitude is unusual. Metron Analysis asks this question regularly, every month in its surveys since 2014 and, with few exceptions, the Greeks have traditionally always considered that things are not going well. However, during the pandemic, most believe that the country is heading in the right direction.
When asked if the country is going in the right or wrong direction, especially on the issue of pandemics, a slightly higher percentage (59%) believe that we are, in fact, doing well, according to the survey.
In both cases, age plays an important role in the response of the Greeks. The older the age, the more optimistic the attitude. Only 37.2% of young people between the ages of 17 and 24 believe that the country is heading in the right direction. In those over 65, however, the percentage is 61.6%.
In addition, amid the lockdown and the culmination of the “second wave”, the percentage of Greeks who believe that “the worst is over” rose to 39%, up from 19% last September. However, the majority (47%, compared to 73% in September) still believe that “more difficult days are coming.”
And this time it is confirmed that the pandemic has completely changed the way we live. 65.1% say that their life has changed “a lot” or “too much”, and the percentage reaches 88% if we add “enough” (from 73% in September). All ages, all social classes and all sectors of the population agree, with the exception of a remarkable 23.8% of those who say they are farmers, who say that their lives in the pandemic have not changed “at all “.
Also, Greeks still fear the coronavirus. 54% answer “probable” or “quite probable” to the question if they think they are at risk of being infected, and 63% answer “very” or “quite” to how much they think they are at risk of contracting the disease if they are infected . Here, too, the responses are significantly influenced by the age of the respondents.
“How likely do you think it is to be personally infected with a coronavirus? “
Furthermore, for the first time since April, according to Mr. Georgakopoulos, the percentage of people who respond positively to the question of whether they have contracted coronavirus becomes statistically significant. About 2.5% answer “yes” to the relevant question, a percentage that corresponds to about 200,000 people, not far from the real number of confirmed cases. Most were cured, of course, but the survey also found five respondents who said they were ill at the time of the call.
As for when they expect the pandemic to end and we return to normal everyday life, the responses reflect awareness and realism. Last April, the majority of Greeks (68%) believed that normality would return in September 2020. In September 2020, as today, the responses were very different. Now 68% of Greeks believe that we will return to normal after mid-2021, and one in three believe that we will return sometime from 2022 onwards.
“When do you think we will return to a normal daily life?”
Today, moreover, almost all Greeks (92%) say they are informed about the pandemic, and 49% say “very” or “very” informed.
Most are reported online (44%), while the percentage of those reported on television has dropped from 49% in April to 37% today. Television, however, scores the lowest of all information sources, while the Internet scores the lowest. Citizens, however, rely much more on personal physicians and their families for information.
Finally, two other interesting findings should be noted. One in three Greeks declares that they have a diagnosed underlying disease, most often hypertension (15.8%), chronic metabolic diseases such as diabetes (9%) and chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma (5.8%). %). As mentioned above, members of this very large group claim in a higher percentage of the general population (72%) that they also intend to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
Furthermore, half of employees now work normally at their workplace (48%) in the middle of a lockdown, and only 20.3% say they work part time. The corresponding percentages in April 2020, in the first quarantine, were quite different. At that time, only 25.4% worked at their workplace and 26.2% teleworked, while almost half of the employees were part-time, sick or suspended. Now in such forms of reduced employment (or no employment) only one in three employees is found.
