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AP-NORC poll: Few Americans support easing virus protections
The Associated Press ^ | April 22, 2020 | By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT

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%.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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To: mmichaels1970

Graduated from HS in 1961.


81 posted on 04/22/2020 3:02:49 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Mine were class of ‘65.


82 posted on 04/22/2020 3:10:14 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970

Poo! Nothing but mere sprouts.


83 posted on 04/22/2020 3:16:05 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Poll details are here:

- see http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-America-Ready-to-Re-Open-.aspx

- see http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Documents/4_22_20_govt_topline.pdf

Again no question as to the following:

1) Were people unemployed or on reduced hours as a result go COVID-19?

2) Had people’s income decreased / increased / stayed the same as a result of COVID-19?

Those two questions would seem to be highly relevant? Why? Because it’s probably easier to say stay at home if you’ve had no decrease in income.


84 posted on 04/22/2020 3:18:07 PM PDT by Fury
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Are you for real?? Who are the people you believe to be too clueless to understand the costs of this draconian shut down?? Do they need their hand held and have it all spelled out by the President?

Sorry, if someone is too dense to understand, the last thing I want our President to put on his to-do list is help the dimwits. I’m so baffled by your comment.

There are those we aren’t effected, by circumstances yet clearly understand the situation. Then there are those who feign ignorance, I don’t waste any effort on them.


85 posted on 04/22/2020 3:18:08 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Well they may have asked those but some of them are receiving money while being out of work and in some cases more money than they made while they were working. So they will want the quarantine to continue for that reason.

I bet if they polled people who made in the six figures who no longer have a job they would want to open faster because they will be making less on the unemployment even with he extra 600 added.


86 posted on 04/22/2020 3:48:22 PM PDT by funfan
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

A lot of people are not aware, that’s why polls have the results they have. Not everyone is on FR. If you want a consensus so that we open up before too many more lives are destroyed, people need to be educated. Good politicians shape opinions. It’s not enough to convince us on FR.


87 posted on 04/22/2020 4:23:09 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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To: Persevero
Go Gordon I think that is a truly patriotic stance.

Thanks. It also stems from a couple other facts. I work in a small group that includes two guys. 1) 53 year old with a high school senior, going to college next year; and 2) a 56 year old Iraqi war I vet, with three kids. One already in college (freshman) and two in late high school (Sophomore and senior). Even though I was the one that started the office, and have been there for 19 1/2 years, I told the Chairman of the Board that if someone needed to sit on the bench for awhile, sit me. I couldn't live with myself if one of the others got benched, and I didn't.

88 posted on 04/22/2020 4:54:34 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Go Gordon

Don’t know your faith but that is real Christian charity.

I have the suspicion there is a lot of that going on. We don’t see the huge majority of it; true charity is usually not ostentatious.

God sees.


89 posted on 04/22/2020 5:22:06 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: cowboyusa
 
 
That ain't no joke. Was in Academy Sports yesterday. Small smattering of ammo - probably 98% ammo wiped out on the shelf. NO ARs or otherwise military/self defense type rifles or shotguns. Accessories for ARs pretty well wiped out, scopes & optics department impacted pretty hard. Still had all sorts of pistols though, several folk were buying some while I was there.
 
 

90 posted on 04/22/2020 7:04:28 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

It is the most important right.


91 posted on 04/22/2020 7:13:51 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: BlueStateRightist

“The media is tapping into female fears. Women are driving the panic and the sense that we must err on the side of lockdown. It feeds into their protective, risk-averse nature. They aren’t being convinced that economic ruin is far worse long-term for their children — a message that doesn’t resonate with a group which is more geared toward current, not future, perceived risks.”

Absolutely correct!


92 posted on 04/22/2020 8:21:58 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: BlueStateRightist

We live in a matriarchy. A Nanny State.


93 posted on 04/22/2020 8:25:21 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about United States citizens, instead?


94 posted on 04/22/2020 8:28:12 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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