{"id":1405675,"date":"2022-03-28T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405675"},"modified":"2022-03-28T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T23:00:21","slug":"poll-most-americans-do-not-support-reinstituting-masks-or-social-distancing-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-most-americans-do-not-support-reinstituting-masks-or-social-distancing-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Most Americans Do Not Support Reinstituting Masks or Social Distancing Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-most-americans-do-not-support-reinstituting-masks-or-social-distancing-guidelines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A majority of the American public does not support reinstituting masks or social distancing guidelines, two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, a Monmouth University survey released Monday found.<\/p>\n<p>The survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/monmouthpoll_us_032822\/\">examined<\/a> sentiments surrounding the pandemic and asked, \u201cDo you support or oppose instituting, or reinstituting, face mask and social distancing guidelines in your state at the current time?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A majority, 62 percent, oppose reinstituting mask and social distancing guidelines, compared to 34 percent who support bringing them back. This reflects a significant drop over the past two months, as 52 percent supported bringing back restrictions in January.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, 77 percent said they support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relaxing recommendations, and another 73 percent agree that it is \u201ctime we accept that Covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found a drop in the number of people concerned about someone in their family becoming \u201cseriously ill\u201d from the coronavirus. Half now say they are either \u201cnot at all concerned\u201d or \u201cnot too concerned\u201d \u2014 an 11 point rise from the 39 percent who said the same in January.<\/p>\n<p>The survey comes days after Hawaii became the final state to drop its indoor mask requirements. However, Dr. Anthony Fauci is continuing to make rounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/28\/anthony-fauci-americans-should-be-ready-for-possibility-of-a-more-rigid-type-of-restriction\/\">urging<\/a> Americans to refrain from getting too comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to use the word \u2018lockdown\u2019 as that has a charged element to it, but I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we\u2019re seeing with infections right now,\u201d Fauci told BBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sunday Morning<\/em>, adding that \u201cwe need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along and then things change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if we do get a variance that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalization, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot towards going back \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 to a more rigid type of restrictions, such as requiring masks indoors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of the American public does not support reinstituting masks or social distancing guidelines, two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, a Monmouth University survey released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}