Posted on 07/23/2020 12:44:37 PM PDT by MplsSteve
Three out of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, favor requiring people to wear face coverings while outside their homes, a new poll finds, reflecting fresh alarm over spiking coronavirus cases and a growing embrace of government advice intended to safeguard public health.
The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds that about two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling the outbreak, an unwelcome sign for the White House in an election year shaped by the nation’s battle with the pandemic.
More than four months after government stay-at-home orders first swept across the U.S., the poll spotlights an America increasingly on edge about the virus.
The federal government's response is seen as falling short, and most Americans favor continued restrictions to stop the virus from spreading even if they might hamstring the economy.
Support for requiring masks is overwhelming among Democrats, at 89%, but 58% of Republicans are in favor as well.
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Then I thought "Heck, is it possible that as much as us Freepers talk about the decline of the MSM that they still have a hold on a significant chunk of the US population? Has the American public (even older Americans) become so dumbed down that they can't think for themselves?"
I'm trying to establish whether this was a poll driven by P to scare people and have them think badly of the Trump Administration or whether we as a nation have reached the point where we've finally gone plain 'ol stupid?
Comments or opinions - anyone?
No one asked me.
The poll is complete and utter bullstuff.
It is so easy to manipulate respondents with general questions and hypotheticals that this poll can be dismissed out-of-hand.
First, I doubt the numbers.
Second, 75% of Americans can GFT.
I would worn a mask [in indoors store venues] ilo being shutdown.
Too late to start now.
People become very compliant when fear is generated. I don’t really know anyone who’s not pro mask. ‘If it saves one life’ has come into play.
And Biden is winning the election. Polls are useless political propaganda tools.
Who did they poll? How? Is this just an online poll?
75% of Americans couldn’t agree that water is wet.
67% of all cited statistics are made up on the spot.
What’s your gut instinct? Go with that.
“Who did they poll? How? Is this just an online poll?”
Not sure of the methodology or crosstabs on it. I read thru the whole article and there was really nothing to go to for that.
“No one asked me.”
Me either. I think the last time I got a caller from a pollster was probably about 15-20 years ago.
They’re using these statistics, bogus or not, to manipulated Trump into declaring a national mask order. The sad thing is that I think he’d do it, too.
If he does, that sticks a knife into the heart of the “recovery.” Things were opening up, people were shopping, dining out, etc. in my city until our RINO mayor declared a mask order, and now businesses are simply shutting down again. The employees don’t like having to wear them, the customers hate being subject to the mask police, and in addition there’s no point in shopping or doing anything in person because you can’t talk to or understand anybody.
I always used to chat with the Publix checkers, and so did everybody else ... now it’s like shopping in a morgue. A very unpleasant experience.
I'm keeping my powder dry, mainly for the following reason:
Americans want :
1) To be under home arrest, not allowed out of their homes
2) to be forced to wear a mask just to walk out to their mailbox
3) schools to remain closed indefinitely, kids home, public school teachers paid as if they were working
4) Big monthly stimulus checks to pay the bills
Americans are at heart totalitarians who don’t trust Americans, even themselves, to have any freedom of choice (except maybe abortion)
Till the next poll
You’d probably have 3 out of 4 Americans back getting “Idiot” tattooed across their forehead if some official looking guy with Doctor in front of his name went on TV and said it would cure some disease.
Stay home from your job because your paycheck is not essential to me.
Wear the mask because shut up.
Take the experimental vaccine or else.
Get on the boxcar.
Get off the boxcar.
Get in the shower.
Breathe in the nice Zyklon B.
I’m stunned that the media hardly had to sweat to scare the living crap out of Americans. We are talking about a virus that has killed 600 thousand globally in a population of 7 billion! Mathematically a rounding error.
The decline story is no longer true. With impeachment and then the virus, even CNN saw its ratings skyrocket. And Fox News is just as bad in its COVID fear mongering and false surge stories.
Personally I don’t understand. If I want the latest on COVID I don’t read a newspaper or watch the news. I just go to worldmeter.
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