Posted on 04/19/2020 7:12:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they are more concerned that a relaxation of stay-at-home restrictions would lead to more COVID-19 deaths than they are that those restrictions will hurt the U.S. economy, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
But while strong majorities of Democrats and independents are more worried about the coronavirus than the economy, Republicans are divided on the question, with almost half of them more concerned about how the restrictions could affect the economy.
In the poll, 58 percent of registered voters say that what worries them more is that the United States will move too quickly in loosening stay-at-home restrictions, resulting in the coronavirus spreading and more lives being lost.
That’s compared with 32 percent who are more concerned that the U.S. will take too long in loosening restrictions, which will harm the economy.
McInturff, the GOP pollster, says these numbers represent a “powerful signal” that the country isn’t ready for business as usual on May 1.
Also in the poll, 44 percent of voters say they approve of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, while 52 percent disapprove.
That’s essentially unchanged from March, when 45 percent gave the president a thumbs up.
By comparison, 69 percent say they trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 66 percent trust their own governor; 60 percent trust Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert; 46 percent trust New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; and 35 percent trust Vice President Mike Pence.
The numbers for Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, are 26 percent who trust, 29 percent who don’t trust, and 42 percent who aren’t aware of his coronavirus statements or who don’t have an opinion.
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If COVID-19 shut down the electrical grid, the number of people supporting a lockdown would be ZERO.
I've never heard of a poll before or since that made the same distinction for anybody else.
The problem with your premise is that without testing we don’t know who is healthy and who is sick.
LIES
Absolutely!
Do you think you will be ok finance-wise if we open in mid to late May?
A poll. The ultimate weapon in “plausible deniability” shapeshifter’s arsenal. Eg: the latest poll shows Hillary will win....plug in any phrase you want. What happened Hillaryous Rotten Criminal? Can you sue those pollsters? Would you want to? All part of “willing suspension of disbelief”. Such a sophisticated super CRIMINAL.
ESAD (take the excuse for a husband with you)
“A large percentage of people in DC have government jobs. They don’t have to worry about their paychecks or benefits. They’re well taken care of.”
exactly. it’s why maryland & va are blue states.
Let them eat $12/quart ice cream.
NBC suits held meeting to determine how to keep the COVID Mania alive long enough to keep selling ad time.
One of the “smart” guys came up with, “Oh I know lets have a poll that show the frightened children of America are still frightened enough to keep it going.”
They did and it did.
I think that most business’, apart from certain sectors, are able to weather a 2-3 month shutdown. Beyond that, no way.
My business will be impacted by the defaults of vendors and clients so there is a lag time in my exposure. At least I have time to plan, react, innovate. I’ll be okay.
“Half the respondents are likely women. Women, and their dimocrat men followers, prioritize safety, security and comfort over the more manly values, activities and virtues.”
This is the crux of the shutdown. It’s primarily driven by women, even many on the right.
No. That’s the unsaid part of the poll. Stay home AND have “the rich” write them a check every week.
Was the poll taken in only the Blue states?
More than 60 percent of Americans supported FDR’s internment off Japanese Americans in WWII. Being scared often makes people lose their appreciation for the Bill of Rights.
My guess is that this is a bullshit poll.
But the ambition behind it is very strong anecdotally. No end of people on FaceBook, mostly working females who think this idiocy should go on indefinitely HOW they think people and businesses can possibly remain solvent I’m not clear on.
However: Put ME out of business, take away from me what I do to live and pay my bills, what occupies a huge amount of my time...and I will be free to consider what is broken in my world, who broke it and how it might be fixed. I won’t sit in some ghetto demanding my rights and writing plaintive songs about my struggle. And I don’t really care how many or few of me are out there. I really don’t Im a productive hard working man. Im not a loudmouth a methhead or a bum. If this fake plague takes away from me what little comforts I have earned for myself and my family theres going to be trouble. And it stops either when Im dead or when I decide it stops.
All the best.
Masks are useless anyway
Masks stop an infected person from sneezing 30 feet away from infecting you from the sneeze
“ They pay to have groceries delivered, they order their food from any decent restaurant that is offering curbside service now. They live in a upper-crust retirement community isolated from the Hoi polloi. As you may have guessed they are solid Democrat voters. He at least understands this can’t go on indefinitely, she is a retired school teacher, Jewish woman from New York. Typical Democratic Socialist. Lots of formal education and damn little critical reasoning skills.”
You’ve perfectly described Montgomery County Maryland.
“Once public sector employees start to lose their jobs, the percentage of people wanting to restart the economy will grow in a major way...”
Exactly. It’s too early for many to appreciate the pain of the shutdowns. We’re about 4 weeks from that point when the government coffers are completely bone dry or in massive debt and public employee incomes are curtailed via furlough, termination or pay cut.
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