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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAP/NORC Poll: Few want virus restrictions eased
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 wont 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 dont 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.
About 8 in 10 Americans say they support measures that include requiring Americans to stay in their homes and limiting gatherings to 10 people or fewer numbers that have largely held steady over the past few weeks...
https://apnews.com/9ed271ca13012d3b77a2b631c1979ce1
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 dont 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.
About 8 in 10 Americans say they support measures that include requiring Americans to stay in their homes and limiting gatherings to 10 people or fewer numbers that have largely held steady over the past few weeks...
https://apnews.com/9ed271ca13012d3b77a2b631c1979ce1
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AP/NORC Poll: Few want virus restrictions eased (Original Post)
BeyondGeography
Apr 2020
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. k&r for sanity. n/t
-Laelth
ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)2. Wow! The Vast Majority Makes Sense!
Too bad that wasn't the case in 2016.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)3. K&R for us sane folks.
Voltaire2
(12,632 posts)4. Don't expect the media to have a frenzy over this news.
They will continue to report every fart coming from the dirtbag nazi assholes out gunning for covid.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)5. I'm glad that when crazy stuff like this happens
that *I'm* not the crazy/odd one out.