{"id":1434819,"date":"2022-04-13T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434819"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:45:23","slug":"poll-only-9-now-believe-covid-is-a-serious-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-only-9-now-believe-covid-is-a-serious-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Only 9% Now Believe COVID Is a Serious Crisis"},"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\">20<\/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-only-9-now-believe-covid-is-a-serious-crisis%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=1434819&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>We\u2019re still waiting to find out if President Joe Biden will allow the mask mandate for public travel to expire on April 18th or if he will extend it yet again. While he\u2019s making his decision, he might want to take a peek at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/poll-americans-think-covid-pandemic-over-axios-ipsos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new Axios\/Ipsos poll that was just released<\/a> this week. They asked Americans a variety of questions about how serious the threat from COVID was at this point and if the pandemic was still a major driving concern. While it may come as a great surprise to some people, particularly inside the White House and among cable news hosts, people really aren\u2019t seeing this as a crisis requiring any extravagant government intervention at this point. In fact, it sounds like a large majority of Americans crossing party lines and every other demographic are done with the pandemic. (Daily Caller)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just 9% of Americans believe COVID-19 is a serious crisis, signaling Americans are ready to move past the pandemic, according to a new Axios\/Ipsos poll released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The poll asked Republicans and Democrats to characterize the state of the coronavirus in the U.S. Only 16% of Democrats called it a \u201cserious crisis\u201d compared to just 3% of Republicans. Sixty-six percent of Republicans called it a \u201cproblem, but manageable,\u201d compared to 81% of Democrats. Overall, 73% of those polled said it was a \u201cproblem, but manageable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 31% of Republicans said it was \u201cnot a problem at all\u201d while just three percent of Democrats said the same, according to the poll.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So Democrats are still more worried about it than Republicans in general, possibly because theyconsume a lot more fear porn on the topic. But when only 9% of the public sees the pandemic as \u201ca serious crisis,\u201d the political class and the media either need to tone down their rhetoric or work on their messaging. Even among Democrats, the number was only 16%. It shouldn\u2019t come as any sort of surprise that a large majority of Americans would refer to it as \u201ca problem.\u201d <em>Of course<\/em> it\u2019s a problem. It\u2019s a disease and some people will still die from it. You know\u2026 just like the flu. But those same people said that the problem is \u201cmanageable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a little surprising (and disappointing) to see that almost half still support mask requirements in school. That\u2019s one area where the government narrative and messaging seem to have been particularly effective. But that figure is still well below where it was last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting recent finding mentioned in the linked report is the reality that the states which took a more \u201ceased\u201d approach to masking and other mandates had better outcomes than those with the harshest restrictions in terms of deaths, hospitalizations, and all the rest. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/unleash-prosperity-study-blue-states-covid-utah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowest grades<\/a> were given to blue states such as New York, New Jersey and California. Utah, Vermont and Nebraska fared the best.<\/p>\n<p>This is simply one more collection of data to toss on the pile, and it should serve as a set of guidelines to all of the politicians fretting over the midterms. People are moving on with their lives and they are largely done with all of the government restrictions. The government helped to get new vaccines and other treatments developed at a record pace and made all of those resources available to those who wanted them. The job is pretty much finished and the medical community can take it from here. If you want to ensure that people don\u2019t vote for you and throw your party out of power in November, all you need to do is prevent them from getting their lives back to normal. It\u2019s really just as easy as that. And this is a sentiment that obviously crosses party and ideological lines far more than our betters in the mainstream media would have us believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re still waiting to find out if President Joe Biden will allow the mask mandate for public travel to expire on April 18th or if he will extend it yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434819","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\/1434819","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434819\/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=1434819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}