Posted on 03/01/2022 8:35:23 PM PST by lightman
New data from a Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week found that Americans aren’t entirely sure of the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes as several Democratic states and cities roll back mask mandates and proof-of-vaccination requirements.
In the poll findings, about 64 percent of respondents said that they felt like COVID-19 is “somewhat” or “not at all” under control.” Thirty-four percent of respondents said the pandemic is “completely” or “mostly” under control.
As a follow-up, the poll asked respondents what they think is more important – trying to control the spread of the virus by having some restrictions, or having no restrictions even if it continues the spread of the virus. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they think it is more important to control the spread by having some restrictions. Thirty-eight percent said there should be no restrictions even if it allows the virus to spread.
In the findings, 56 percent of respondents said they have “fully” or “mostly” returned to their normal, pre-pandemic lifestyle. Forty-one percent said they’ve “partly” or “barely” returned to their pre-pandemic life.
The survey asked respondents if they approve or disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job as president. In the results, 37 percent approve, while 55 percent disapprove. Fifty-eight percent of respondents disapprove of how he is handling the economy, 50 percent disapprove of how he is handling the pandemic, and 47 percent of respondents disapprove of how he is handling “the situation involving Russia and Ukraine.”
The poll was conducted from Feb. 20 to Feb. 24 and sampled 1,011 American adults. The results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.
I don’t believe most people also don’t think it was all that big a deal either.
Under control? NO
Over? YES
We have become a nation of weaklings
It’s finished in my household and we did it about a year ago. Not in just my household but in the community. Never wore them in the house.
All this poll tells me is that Americans are stupid and have fully absorbed the lies and propaganda.
You cannot “control” viruses. You treat the sickest and wait for it to run its course.
“Exposure” builds up the immune system.
Hibernation make it flabby.
I am in CA. last week we were able to remove our masks at work OMG I was SO HAPPY!! Funny thing is EVERYONE over 40 ripped them from their faces the younger folks left them on AFRAID to remove them!! Here we are the older more susceptible to the virus ripping off our masks and the younger who have very little chance of being violently ill AFRAID, GO FIGURE!! I have noticed the same with the customers older folks NO MASK younger folks still masked up along with masked up kids GEEZE!! I am very afraid for the future of this nation!! SHEEP everywhere!!
Wait until they find out the masks did nothing.
sheep indeed. it’s likely that fed-school indoctrination left them with little or no independent learning skills and suppressed critical thinking abilities.
“the poll findings, about 64 percent of respondents said that they felt like COVID-19 is “somewhat” or “not at all” under control.”
These are opposite. Why would they be lumped together?
To foment fearmongering.
"OMG...it isn't REALLY under control...how dare you go barefaced?"
Same applies to Deep State Ukraine war propaganda. It’s how the Biden Crime Family and others get paid.
How do you answer this question? Yes of course it was “under control” to keep us afraid and believing it’s totally “out of control.”
They should have asked “Do you think the ‘protective measures’ had any effect at controlling the virus at all?”
When adults need “safe spaces” with coloring books and trigger warnings are placed on books like “The Old Man and the Sea,” you know many of us are incredibly weak.
I think a lot of that is a fad. If their fellow students started laughing at them, if adults started telling them to grow up, if they faced punishment and condemnation for nasty comments it would stop.
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