Posted on 09/27/2023 5:23:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Americans are feeling weary that the pandemic might not be as over as they once believed, and a growing number of Republicans have expressed concern that the coronavirus is indeed getting worse.
According to a new Gallup poll, 44 percent of Democrats feel the situation is getting worse, up from 6 percent this June. The sentiment also grew among Republicans from just 3 to 16 percent in the same time period.
"I think that because there was a new variant that emerged, the 'newness' and the uncertainty of the new variant's virulence and severity likely caused an uptick of concern," Mudry told Newsweek. Overall, 30 percent of those surveyed said the coronavirus situation is getting worse, and 27 percent worry about getting infected themselves.
This marks a slight increase from last quarter but is still far below the rates of coronavirus anxiety first experienced during the pandemic.
Concerns over the coronavirus are likely reemerging because of the new variant Eris, said Jessica Mudry, an associate professor in public health communication at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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NOT on board!
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COVID is getting worse as a scam and a scare tactic it certainly is.
It’s making a comeback.
Any excuse to be the controlled opposition.
Newspeak oversampled Dems 15%.
Covid is actually getting weaker... not stronger
It’s the vaccinated immune systems that are shutting down.
They are on their 3rd year out of 5.
You phoneys can write all the propaganda you want, you will NOT take another election through mail fraud.
We've had it with yoiu, we're pissed and we're closer to USING our arms as ever before.
It’s FLU season, that’s what it is.
It’s getting worse because schools just started and we are entering cold and flu season.
I have a product exactly like that in my suitcase. :)
Irrelevant question.
I may or may not believe Covid is getting worse.
I do not believe it matters to my day to day life.
In short, they can shove their masks.
I came back from a 10 day vacation with Covid. Was traveling with my long term girlfriend and 15 other couples.
We arrived back home this past Sunday. By Sunday evening, 7 of us were experiencing symptoms and tested positive for Covid.
Monday morning another 4 tested positive.
Tuesday Morning another 7 did, and by Wednesday morning another 1 did.
19 of the 32 of us have Covid. Yes, we tested. Several others said they had cold-like symptoms and said they weren't going to test.
I'm immune system suppressed and took the J&J shot in April of 2021. I've explicitly NOT taken any of the MRNA "vaccines" because I did not trust them at all.
My recovery from Covid this time (this is my 4th time with it) has been about 3 days. I went from feeling like complete crap and achy in every joint I have including my fingers, to being just a little stuffed up today.
In fact, with each variant, my recovery has been quicker than the last. I know this because I have to track it so I can take my biologic meds.
If I, an immune system suppressed individual who's almost 61 years old can recover in less than 3 days from the latest variant, anyone can.
I call B.S. on these so called "vaccines."
Is this poll showing the effectiveness of news media propaganda on Republicans, or are they “con-flu-sing Covid with influenza?
Nobody believes that.
Yawn.
Died of suddenly is off the charts.
I did COVID medicine almost exclusively from March 2020 until late 2022. I still do some.
My views are different from most posters here about the severity of COVID through mid-2021.
However, the current manifestations of SARS CoV 2 infection (It’s hard to call it COVID any more) are very mild, most patients do not require hospitalization or treatment, and even with widespread infections the disruptive effects are almost nonexistent.
Those tests aren’t reliable.
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