Posted on 04/22/2020 11:27:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite pockets of attention-grabbing protests, a new survey finds Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. A majority say it won’t be safe to lift such restrictions anytime soon, even as a handful of governors announce plans to ease within days the public health efforts that have upended daily life and roiled the global economy.
The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than a month after schoolyards fell silent, restaurant tables and bar stools emptied, and waves from a safe distance replaced hugs and handshakes, the country largely believes restrictions on social interaction to curb the spread of the virus are appropriate.
Only 12% of Americans say the measures where they live go too far. About twice as many people, 26%, believe the limits don’t go far enough. The majority of Americans - 61% - feel the steps taken by government officials to prevent infections of COVID-19 in their area are about right.
Just 36% of Republicans now say they strongly favor requiring Americans to stay home during the outbreak, compared with 51% who said so in late March. While majorities of Democrats and Republicans think current restrictions where they live are about right, Republicans are roughly four times as likely as Democrats to think restrictions in place go too far — 22% to 5%.
More Democrats than Republicans, meanwhile, think restrictions don’t go far enough, 33% to 19%.
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So the Big Media fearmongering is working
it doesn’t matter if you virus-free if you can’t feed your family
These polls are total bull$hit. They’ve only started producing these polls after people started protesting. Just another leftist disinformation campaign. These people are so predictable with their tactics.
It seems to be. Here in Georgia, I keep hearing that the governor is trying to kill people by telling them they can get haircuts.
How many Americans want to go without income for 6 months?
Ok they can stay home no one is forcing them to go out
The majority may choose slavery. I choose freedom.
Check out the methodology.
Nuff said.
I love the smell of burnt fake news in the morning.
In Soviet Russia, Party fakes news
In America, News fakes YOU!
This does not surprise me, because most people are unaware of the terrible cost of the shutdown. Why in the world is the administration not trying to educate people on this?
AP = Always Propaganda
Remember this is from devoted leftist, communist, socialist, dimocrat supporting AP!!! Nuff said.
All our hair places are closed, beauty shops, barbers, and dental offices shut down also. My dentist said they are closed until at least the end of May.
The title might better read:
Few Americans have broken out of official herd mentality.
So if this is true (big IF) then people now are saying “kick me again, harder, I deserve it.”
The first Charles Bronson Death Wish movie had him saying to his son in law: (my paraphrase) We all say we are too civilized to stand up and really fight but if the time came and our loved ones and our principles were really at risk we would do it. But is it really still there inside us? Or are we so used to being compliant and compromising and following the rules that what used to be inside us as strength is now gone?
Media not in favor of herd immunity, but demand herd mentality.
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