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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: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


21 posted on 04/22/2020 11:43:07 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To be valid, any poll must ask ONLY people whose jobs have been eliminated; otherwise, the results are biased


22 posted on 04/22/2020 11:43:15 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP.

Is anyone of above two digit IQ even bother to read the Obamastuff coming from this group’s Obamahole?


23 posted on 04/22/2020 11:43:43 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Only 5% of Dems think losing their freedoms went too far. Smh🤦‍♂️
24 posted on 04/22/2020 11:46:53 AM PDT by nhwingut (Tagline for lease...)
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To: RetiredArmy

Yes. But lazy, complacent Americans meekly will go along until they get bored and want to have fun again. Then they will break out in massive resistance. Maybe.

They seem to be okay with giving away our precious God given rights in our Republic. Just ask with an edict and they give up in a few minutes! Some Bunker Hill or Iwo Jima. What’s on Netflix?

I’m even doubting the American people are even that much worthwhile. They vote increasingly Dem—the slothful, impressionable fools. Where’s my free stuff?

Trump voters and FReepers excepted. Only us.


25 posted on 04/22/2020 11:47:00 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: usafa92

This is agitprop. They make up polls to achieve the result they are seeking.


26 posted on 04/22/2020 11:48:06 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: BlueStateRightist

Exactly. I have definitely noticed that most of the fear mongering is coming from women.

With the working from home situation, I have found myself checking in on FB much more than before. Easily 90% of the “stay home, this is real” type of posts are females. To be fair though, most of the really funny posts and videos are from women.


27 posted on 04/22/2020 11:49:15 AM PDT by okkev68
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To: mmichaels1970

Anyone who goes out and come down with the Chinese Virus should be denied ANY AND ALL healthcare.*

*This public service announcement brought to you by FearBros.com


28 posted on 04/22/2020 11:49:54 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It doesn’t help that America has soooo many more takers than it used to have and, therefore, have nothing to lose by sitting around all day.


29 posted on 04/22/2020 11:50:53 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: okkev68

They are called Karen.


30 posted on 04/22/2020 11:51:05 AM PDT by nhwingut (Tagline for lease...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you send People a $1,200 Check and give them an extra $600 a week IN ADDITION to any Unemployment Insurance they receive, they might think that things are “just right”.


31 posted on 04/22/2020 11:51:12 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: canuck_conservative

No. The fact that they have to cook up polls to shape opinion is proof that they are getting desperate. Whatever the left pushes, you can bet that in a hot second that a poll showing support for it will be forthcoming.

This is a case in point.

Also, it is so easy to be in favor of this when it hasn’t affected you. As this drags, let’s see what happens when all those living off, say, the state government payroll are cut off.


32 posted on 04/22/2020 11:51:48 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anything from the AssPress is a lie.


33 posted on 04/22/2020 11:51:52 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Col Frank Slade; All

At age 77, overweight and with type II diabetes, I think I’m qualified to speak out on this. People, like me, who are at risk from this virus obviously need to take more precautions to avoid infection than younger, healthier people, just as motorcycle riders need to take more precautions when riding than car drivers need to. However, that doesn’t give me and others like me the right to deny other people the right to earn their livelihoods and to destroy their pension plans for no real gain to ourselves. It also doesn’t give us the right to destroy the economy of the greatest nation in the world’s history. Right now the “cure” is doing a lot more damage than the disease, SO IT’S HIGH TIME TO OPEN UPO THE ECONOMY AND GET ON WITH BUSINESS.


34 posted on 04/22/2020 11:51:55 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: wny

THIS.


35 posted on 04/22/2020 11:52:13 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If old people like myself, or those with major health problems choose to isolate themselves longer, that’s ok. But anyone young, healthy and able to work who chooses to stay at home instead of going back to work shouldn’t get any more money from the state or the feds. Unfortunately, I think there is a segment of our society that would rather not work as long as the government is willing to pay them not to work.


36 posted on 04/22/2020 11:52:15 AM PDT by euram
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To: All

Thanks, Tolerance Sucks Rocks!

37 posted on 04/22/2020 11:53:30 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs, their ownership of America's, fake news media/CNN, the real Deep Staters?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Proves the MSM were successful...at scaring the bejeebers out of everyone.

Natural result of instilling fear of death: people will hide under their beds and be afraid of showing their head.

Has absolutely nothing to do with rational thought processes. When sufficiently scared people will react.


38 posted on 04/22/2020 11:54:25 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Nothing fake about this. Even most FREEPERS were willing to surrender their liberty in the face of this idiocy.


39 posted on 04/22/2020 11:55:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did not ask me. Vast over reach by panic-inducing media and lib tyranny. Stop the libs and go back to work.


40 posted on 04/22/2020 11:55:37 AM PDT by ammomajor (If 'helicopter Ben' says gold isn't money, I want more of it.)
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