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Hold responsible for coronavirus:
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2020-05-12
Ignorant people
0.19%
doug ford
0.19%
The scientists who experiment with creating diseases and do not maintain proper safety precautions to prevent test animals from escaping
0.19%
All citizens of Canada
0.19%
Individuals refusing quarantine
0.19%
Ceux qui ne suivent pas les recommandations de confinement et distanciation
0.19%
People who protest social distancing and vaccines
0.19%
immigrants and migrants
0.19%
WHO
12.79%
Airlines/Airports
0.19%
Although Trump is fairly responsible for the current condition of the U.S on a global scale several world leaders could have taken better precautions and should have seen the virus as a bigger threat since the start.
0.19%
The airlines
0.19%
Stupid people that have close contact with others in spite of having been told not to.
0.19%
Chinese Goverment
0.39%
Les syndicats
0.39%
les personnes qui ne respectent pas les consignes de sant!
0.19%
Le manque de pr!paration avant la pand!mie des deux paliers gouvernementaux
0.19%
Wet Market regulation in foreign countries
0.19%
human race is responsible for the imbalance of nature
0.19%
Companies that own seniors' residencence
0.19%
mother nature
0.19%
everyone is responsible due to how we have treated our environment around us and have been selfish in our consumption
0.19%
Les !tres humains
0.19%
Les fronti!res auraient d! !tre ferm! beaucoup plus t!t et l!isol! ment des personnes revenant de voyage aurait d! !tre obligatoire
0.19%
Other countries for not clamping down sooner on this.
0.19%
Society as a whole
0.19%
Every person
0.19%
Capitalism
0.19%
Les individus
0.19%
Oms
0.58%
Nous sommes tous responsables, mais le gouvernement Chinois m!rite particuli!rement d'!tre bl!m! pour avoir voulu faire taire les lanceurs d'alerte. Le peuple chinois en lui-m!me n'est pas davantage responsable que les autres humains.
0.19%
la sant! publique
0.19%
World Health Organization
2.71%
Democratic party in the US
0.19%
Provincial Gov'ts
0.19%
The World Health Organization
0.19%
Ceux qui n'ont pas respect! les consignes d'isolement
0.19%
la france
0.19%
Wet markets and transmission of virus from animals to humans
0.19%
the media
0.58%
Every one is responsible for a positive outcome!
0.19%
deep state
0.19%
world health organization
0.78%
Communist Party of China
0.19%
The chinese canada health minister
0.19%
The virus itself
0.19%
I would say China, but I am not sure who the blame could be on. The government or the people, have no idea how the Pandemic started.
0.19%
Well Noone knows at moment. Possibly a bat? Depends. Noone knows at moment
0.19%
Nature
0.58%
Les comportements enver la plan!te
0.19%
irresponsible individuals and groups who ignored social distancing efforts
0.19%
I believe it is a combination of multiple factors, not listed here
0.19%
irresponsible people
0.19%
CIA
0.19%
No one thing is responsible
0.19%
accident in research center
0.19%
No one is responsible. We shouldn't fight at all. This is nature trying to show what we have done to the world. A mountain with lots of pollution cleared up and people see that coronavirus is doing a good and in the other hand, a bad.
0.19%
human kind
0.19%
The main stream Canadian media
0.19%
WET MARKETS
0.19%
lab researchers in wuhan
0.19%
Prime Minister Ass-Clown
0.19%
dumb question - bats?
0.19%
Private LTC homes
0.19%
Je pr!f!re attendre avant de juger..
0.19%
general public
0.19%
tout le monde
0.19%
Chinese Leadership
0.19%
The two Chinese doctors (husband and wife) from that lab in Winnipeg
0.19%
Theresa Tam and WHO/UN
0.19%
people who don't social distance
0.19%
People who trivialize the severity of the crisis
0.19%
Globally, we need an organization with the authority to demand safe food handling practices. Fro example, eliminate "wet markets". Trade with countries that do not comply should be suspended.
0.19%
la soci!t!
0.19%
Secret society's
0.19%
La sant! publique
0.19%
All people who do not follow social distancing protocols
0.19%
Every human being in the world is responsible for the scale and scope
0.19%
Italy
0.19%
Bill gates
0.19%
Virus
0.19%
The public at large
0.19%
THE U.N.
0.19%
ordinary people who don't follow the precautions
0.19%
People not following common sense
0.19%
The virus itself ...
0.19%
The conditions that created the virus
0.19%
society for infringing on nature
0.19%
No one person or group. Many individuals and groups contributed and we are a global society.
0.19%
Countries who allow citizens to eat dangerous foods
0.19%
We are all responsible. Government plays a larger role, but we are all responsible.
0.19%
Big Business
0.19%
Some scientist playing with nature
0.19%
Regular people
0.19%
World health organization
0.39%
The nature of the Chinese culture. There seems to be a lack of care at times.
0.19%
Les voyageurs
0.58%
CDC, WHO
0.19%
Those with more power than presidents (the ones with the real money)
0.19%
people in general for not following social distancing guidelines
0.19%
Not sure who is responsible?
0.19%
la chine
0.19%
The Canadians who did not follow the rules set in place to protect us
0.19%
we the people
0.19%
I am
0.19%
Tam
0.19%
You can't hold a group or a individual even donald trump responsible because all human reaction to an emergency situation will be different even if donald trump really f--ked it up for the USA land of white privilege
0.19%
It's a combination of multiple factors that can't be simplified into single categories.
0.19%
Stupid people not taking percautions
0.19%
Stuff happens
0.19%
Individuals who ignore and defy social distancing orders around the world
0.19%
corporations in china
0.19%
Ourselves
0.19%
The WHO
0.39%
Cdc and W.H.O they didnt lock down when they should have and caused this to get to the scale that it has
0.19%
The virus.
0.19%
Le virus
0.19%
Theresa Tam
0.58%
Not one person or group is responsible... the virus started in China, that is the, however, I dont believe people expected the impact or the reality of having to check every single person for the symptoms would be as difficult as it was. Had w
0.19%
All governments share responsibility and should have been better prepared and more open with all nations on dealing with the pandemic
0.19%
No single group is responsible and most of the human and economic costs are a result of actions and decisions that helped to mitigate greater costs.
0.19%
The world has not been ready for a global pandemic, hopefully after this measures will be put in place to slow viruses before they reach this level.
0.19%
gestionnaire des r!sidences pour a!n!s et la province
0.19%
Not all I hold in account in negative ways. I think that the BC government has done a good job stopping the transmission and the federal government is trying their best.
0.19%
W.H.O.
0.58%
Difficile ! dire : un ensemble de circonstances ?
0.19%
a lot of people are responsible, like people who travel with symptoms and spread it, and governments for not doing enough to lockdown
0.19%
The new world order
0.19%
Individuals and groups who disregard social distancing
0.19%
who
0.39%
airports/air travel
0.19%
Iranian Govt
0.19%
I don't hold any one person or group responsible. I think this caught everyone off guard
0.19%
Les medias
0.39%
The media
0.39%
les compagnies a!riennes
0.19%
WHO for not revealing the fact much earlier that would have help to stop the spread to an extent
0.19%
The MEDIA
0.19%
people who have unknowingly transmitted the virus before they had symptoms
0.19%
international leisure travellers
0.19%
Everyone is responsible one way or another
0.19%
I do not think anyone is responsible because they are all trying to protect everyone in all ways possible and what ever results we acheive when the crisis is all over we will see than who will take the blame if any.
0.19%
Citizens who did not listen to advice of isolating
0.19%
media
0.19%
L'homme
0.19%
Teresa Tam
0.19%
Canadian people
0.19%
People in general, all nations
0.19%
the poor sense of community we have globally as a population
0.19%
Open meat markets
0.19%
a combination of many of the above along with "natural" causes.
0.19%
La surpopulation mondiale
0.19%
ceux qui continue de voyager.
0.19%
the WHO
0.19%
Testing Laboratories
0.19%
Bill Gates
0.19%
The American government had thenCOVID 19 virus before china did...
0.19%
Many are responsible for the outcome of this crisis. No one is responsible for the outbreak, but how we have handled it we have the public health officials, doctors and nurses, essential workers and the government to thank for the amazing job
0.19%
unknown
0.19%
The person who ate the bat, and the animals that started it
0.19%
Virus en laboratoire cr!! pour tuer car la guerre co!te trop cher et la crise !conomique va !tre grosse
0.19%
Le gouvernement provincial liberal pr!c!dent et ses coupures en sant!
0.19%
Voyageur
0.19%
Nous avons tous une part de responsabilit!
0.19%
The lab in China where the virus came from
0.19%
Capitalistic practices
0.19%
The Elite
0.19%
LES CITOYENS
0.19%
The Rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations
0.19%
Cdc
0.19%
Le manque de pr!vention g!n!ralis!
0.19%
Dr Arruda
0.19%
Big business
0.19%
Gov'ts of Quebec and Ontario
0.19%
negligence depuis des annees
0.19%
No one to blame - especially right now, unique set of circumstances that many groups/jurisdictions are handling and learning as they go.
0.19%
The world need to learn from previous experience of SRAS. The virus can go to the whole world in 1 day by plane. All countries are not concerned until they see cases happening in their own country.
0.19%
whoever gained the most at the end
0.19%
Democrats & Media
0.19%
Everyone
0.39%
Covid 19
0.19%
Businesses
0.19%
The question is unclear
0.19%
International travelers
0.19%
all of humanity contributed
0.19%
Provincial government
0.19%
sunnybrook hostipal
0.19%
This is a collective failure and also includes the media as a major contributor. No one group is responsible.
0.19%
L'Organisation Mondiale de la sant!
0.19%
everyone is responsible
0.19%
Mother Nature
0.19%
WHA
0.19%
Health Canada
0.19%
Probably a combination of all of the above
0.19%
irresponsible people who don't social distance and those who spread inaccurate information
0.19%
It's all the governments
0.19%
Nobody is the blame for the corona virus but the way it is being handled will deliver a huge blow to the economy which I find is the fault of the government. There were better options available than a complete shut down.
0.19%
Everyone who would not follow the guidelines and stay at home.
0.19%
The dumbass who ate the infected bat
0.19%
WHO and UN
0.19%
People ignoring guidelines
0.19%
Chief Medical advisors to federal and provincial governments that said from January until March 15 there was no need to stop international travel or close borders
0.19%
Personne en particulier sauf si le virus a !t! cr!! dans ce cas les cr!ateurs du virus
0.19%
I don!t think you can place all the blame on specific groups or people
0.19%
Whomever realizes the virus by mistake or on purpose
0.19%
politics
0.19%
human behaviour
0.19%
Who. The government should of enacted shutdown before who called a pandemic. In my opinion it was bad enough in the beggining of february to shutdown borders and enact social distancing
0.19%
Lack of trust in expert opinions among those with less education and/or more conservative or libertarian views.
0.19%
Canadians who did not follow travel and quarantine protocols
0.19%
les gens en g!n!ral
0.19%
fellow canadians for not following the rules two months ago to today
0.19%
Whoever created this virus
0.19%
UN WHO
0.19%
G5
0.19%
People who refused to isolate
0.19%
Toutes les autorit!s gouvernementales qui n'ont pas r!agi assez vite
0.19%
Western society
0.19%
every one equally
0.19%
Nous sommes tous responsable de notre sant!
0.19%
Chine
0.19%
asymtomatic people who unknowingly spread the virus
0.19%
Globalization
0.19%
Tous ceux qui n'!coutent pas les consignes
0.19%
World health organization they should have warned everyone sooner and the country should have been shut down sooner.
0.19%
People who travel
0.19%
World Health organization
0.39%
Les m!dias
0.19%
canadian citizens
0.19%
This is a very misleading question, as it does not indicate whether or not you think the scale and scope of the crisis has been handled well or not. As a result, I do not want to answer.
0.19%
dirty people who also don't believe in science. Just the dirty and unsanitary chinese people who think it's normal to have wet markets.
0.19%
Personne et tout le monde
0.19%
Chinese scientists
0.19%
chinese government
0.19%
Quebec
0.19%
World leaders failing to work together
0.19%
whoever mishandled the virus and let it get out
0.19%
the virus itself
0.19%
Surconsommation des biens
0.19%
World Health Org
0.19%
specifically the wild life traders and wet market sellers
0.19%
All
0.19%
President Trump and the idiotic rhetoric he spouts has endangered so many lives (injecting bleach, for example or ingesting fish cleaner). As a Chinese person I am appalled at the amount of sinophobia and violent attacks towards us that has bee
0.19%
People who willfully ignore the information
0.19%
Dr.Theresa Tam, the federal chief health officer
0.19%
Grocery retailers & insurance companies
0.19%
Gouvernement du Qu!bec et la maire
0.19%
We all are
0.19%
Those who do not adhere to the rules and regulations in place and those who are a detriment to flattening the curve
0.19%
Je pense que le co!t qui est atteint, sera la responsabilit! de l'engagement de tous et non d'un seul acteur
0.19%
Alot of people are to blame. If we cut off travel and quarntined responsibly it would not have spread much. Taiwan is doing a wonderful job, althought alot of the world depends on China's imports so cutting the supply off isn't good. It is just
0.19%
factory farms and wet markets
0.19%
THE POPULATION
0.19%
The General Public
0.19%
Tous le monde a diff!rents niveau
0.19%
manque de ressources
0.19%
Generally people where just reacting the best way they thought they could... BUT the media blew up.. i say the economy should have just be left open.
0.19%
Airlines with poor ventilation and screening.
0.19%
CITIZENS NTO FOLLOWING SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES; HOWEVER, NO ONE IS TO BLAME FOR A PANDEMIC
0.19%
Chaque !tre humain par ces gestes
0.19%
Aeroport ouverte mais aucune consigne aux passagers de se quarsntiner
0.19%
Les CIUSSS
0.19%
throwing money at the situation only makes things worse
0.19%
people themselves breeding like rats
0.19%
WHO and its president in specific!
0.19%
Plusieurs circonstances et des mesures f!d!rales trop tardives
0.19%
humans
0.19%
citizens of the countries
0.19%
Media
0.19%
nature
0.19%
Citizens who don't follow the recommendations
0.19%
All of the World Leaders
0.19%
This is an international issue that has to do with the way that we interact with animals and nature
0.19%
PEOPLE ALL OVER MAKING THE ERROR WHEN KNOWING THEY ARE SICK
0.19%
CNN, MSNBC, Bill DeBlasio, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Ayanna Presley
0.19%
Every Person
0.19%
Covid-19
0.19%
World leaders who ignored the warning signs and still cut health care
0.19%
Chinese Communist Party
0.19%
les voyageurs
0.19%
the expanding scope is this is being caused by people NOT thinking about the consequences of their actions like Trump.
0.19%
A mix of multiple of these and a failure to act sooner and attempts to reopen too quickly
0.19%
American people who voted in their President
0.19%
People who choose ignorance over science
0.19%
People that do/didn't adhere to the health advice.
0.19%
many contributing factors
0.19%
The biggest responsibility falls on us as Canadians as a whole
0.19%
Businesses who put profit before worker safety
0.19%
The Media
0.58%
God is in control
0.19%
Chinese government
0.19%
everyone
0.19%
fournisseurs de protection m!dicales
0.19%
the public
0.19%
les gens qui ne suivent pas les consignes
0.19%
a BAT....then a wet market...eventually to a human
0.19%
gouvernement chine
0.19%
The public when they do not take the pandemic seriously
0.19%
Who
0.19%
DR TAM
0.19%
TRANSPORT
0.19%
Most governments were too slow and cautious in implementing restrictions to minimize the impact of the virus
0.19%
I do not think that you can ascribe responsibility for something like this to any person or group. Having said that however, I think our governments were slow to react and could have done more. I think our borders should have been shut down soo
0.19%
Ian
0.19%
WHO for being too slow to declare a pandemic
0.19%
GEBIS - Buddhist monks on PEI
0.19%
The reaction of all governments and people in various countries.
0.19%
those who do not follow guidelines of physical distancing etc.
0.19%
1.Selfish individuals; 2. corporations
0.19%
China hiding info
0.19%
probablement plus dans la facon que les gens sont et continuent d'etre sans pense a autrui
0.19%
We should have to told earlier
0.19%
PUBLIC/PRIVATE RESIDENCE MANAGERS
0.19%
the person that ate a bat
0.19%
Minister Hajdu
0.19%
Each individual will continue to be responsible for containment/spread.
0.19%
W.H.O
0.19%
The upper class in general
0.19%
This is a confusing question. Everyone on the planet is to some extent "responsible"; pandemics are a fact of life and people should have and should continue to plan for pandmics.
0.19%
Failure of being prepared for pandemic and misshandeling testing and contacy tracing
0.19%
Governments in general
0.19%
People not respecting social distancing in the beginning
0.19%
I believe that the medical personnel involved in facing COVID-19 have been critical in reducing the scale and scope of the crisis.
0.19%
Individuals not doing their part
0.19%
l'ancien gouvernement avant celuoi ci
0.19%
Le gouvernement chinois
0.19%
Levels of government in different countries could have worked together
0.19%
The virus is no more harmful than the flu ... It's 5G tech that's the true threat
0.19%
People who do not follow rules
0.19%
W.h.o
0.39%
Chinese Government Officials
0.19%
dr tam
0.19%
not a who, but a system. capitalism - profits over people.
0.19%
This pandemis was inevitable. I blame human hubris / arrogance.
0.19%
tous!
0.19%
American States
0.19%
trump
0.19%
Wuhan Flu Bat&Rat slaughter Meat Markets
0.19%
La planete
0.19%
People not following instructions
0.19%
irresponsible people who do not follow health guidelines
0.19%
Chinese Government
0.19%
Chaque un de nous
0.19%
people who defy lockdown
0.19%
global interdependency economically and global travel
0.19%
Certain large corporations.
0.19%
Le virus sa contagion.
0.19%
Les imbeciles qui pensent juste ! eux et qui ne suivent pas les directives
0.19%
La gauche
0.19%
Those persons who do not listen to the experts.
0.19%
Those who recommended not to wear a mask such as Dr. Tam and Hinsaw, if this was done earlier, the spread could be less
0.19%
Le virus en lui-m!me
0.19%
nature/evolution
0.19%
People who are not following directives to reduce the spread
0.19%
Boarders should be closed earlier.
0.19%
Tous types de gouvernement qui refusent d!appliquer des lois des mesures protectriceS de l!environnement et de structurer des syst!mes de sant! public !quitables qui sont adapt!s pour faire face aux crises contemporaines., ET
0.19%
The White House Cabal
0.19%
!conomie mondiale et voyages
0.19%
ONTARIO/QUEBEC gov't officials and businesses where many senoir deaths in carehomes occured
0.19%
drug stores
0.19%
M!dias
0.19%
nos habitudes de consommation
0.19%
WHO and Theresa Tam
0.19%
Fucking moron idiot people who travel too much.
0.19%
Asian wildlife open markets
0.19%
Vice President Pence
0.19%
Les journalistes
0.19%
people who did not follow safety guidelines
0.19%
Les voyageur qui nous on ramener !a ici
0.19%
All citizens of the world
0.19%
chinese food culture
0.19%
Tout ceux qui ne respectent pas les consignes
0.19%
EVERYONE HAS A PART
0.19%
corrupt companies in general
0.19%
Dr. Teresa Tam
0.19%
Barrette qui a coup! Du personnel Dans Les h!pitaux et CHSLD
0.19%
OMS
0.39%
Bill gates, Fauci
0.19%
I think the whole world is responsible for whats going on
0.19%
organisatio mondiale de la sant!
0.19%
Lack of sanitation standards in live animal and "Wet" markets everywhere in the world
0.19%
Les gens en g!n!ral
0.19%
Un peux tous le monde
0.19%
some European governments
0.19%
TOUT A CHACUN RAISPONSABLE DE LUI
0.19%
La personne qui a mut! le g!ne
0.19%
La mondialisation
0.19%
Public Health Agency of Canada
0.19%
Not sure
0.19%
L'Organisation Mondiale de la Sant!
0.19%
C'est un peu de tout.
0.19%
Careless Human Beings
0.19%
People in general
0.19%
Tous les gouvernements en g!n!ral pour avoir tard! ! agir
0.19%
World Health Organization, and the originating source of the virus (whether manmade or not i dont know)
0.19%
the whole world overeacting
0.19%
chief medical officers
0.19%
Individual corporations
0.19%
Canadians not following protocols
0.19%
Premier of Quebec
0.19%
The virus
0.19%
Americans crossing the border early and infecting people here
0.19%
gestionnaires de CHSLD
0.19%
I believe while no one person or group is actually responsible, I do believe each person/group's actions have contributed. I believe there needs to be a all encompassing review of the events of Covid when possible, not to necessarily find faul
0.19%
The Deep State
0.19%
people who are irresponsible and violate the restrictions
0.19%
Everybody
0.19%
Although Donald Trump and his government certainly made the crisis worse in the US, he did not cause the crisis
0.19%
Indiviuals that are able to control the spread.
0.19%
Humans
0.19%
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516
Probability sampling
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Comparable margin of error
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Respondent qualification age
18
Data sampling
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Canada
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