{"id":537680,"date":"2021-05-23T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537680"},"modified":"2021-05-23T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:21:15","slug":"quarter-of-americans-say-covid-19-pandemic-is-over-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/quarter-of-americans-say-covid-19-pandemic-is-over-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter Of Americans Say COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fquarter-of-americans-say-covid-19-pandemic-is-over-poll%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=537680&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mask-2-2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When will the COVID-19 pandemic be over?<\/p>\n<p>For more than a quarter of Americans surveyed, it\u2019s already finished.<\/p>\n<p>In a nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrafalgargroup.org\/COSA-National-COVID-Poll-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> conducted May 14-16 of more than 1,500 people by the Convention of States Action and The Trafalgar Group, respondents were asked: \u201cWhen will you personally consider the COVID-19 pandemic over and go about life as usual?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than a quarter (25.7%) agreed with the answer that \u201cI believe it was serious but it\u2019s already over.\u201d Another 26.4% said they\u2019ll believe the COVID-19 pandemic is over when the federal government and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tell them so. Nearly a fifth (19.6%) said the pandemic will be over \u201cwhen everyone has the opportunity to take the vaccine.\u201d And 11.1% who said they never took the virus seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Pollsters also <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrafalgargroup.org\/COSA-National-Fauci-Full-Report.pdf\">found<\/a> that 42.2% of those surveyed are losing confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci. Another 31.1% said it had \u201cdecreased significantly\u201d while 11.1% said it had \u201cdecreased.\u201d Still, 22.1% said their confidence had increased, while another 26.1% said it was unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning, Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as the face of, and has set the tone for, Washington\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d said Mark Meckler, president of the convention, a nonprofit that seeks to place checks on federal power, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/may\/21\/trafalgar-poll-finds-waning-confidence-dr-anthony-\/\">according<\/a> to The Washington Times. \u201cHis numerous contradictions, admitted lies, and opinion-driven directives rather than science-driven guidance has impacted the way voters view him and the federal government\u2019s response overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has had some evolving views on COVID-19. Back in March 2020, Fauci, the country\u2019s top infectious disease expert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-fauci-in-march-masks-make-you-feel-a-little-bit-better-but-unnecessary-for-general-population-warns-of-unintended-consequences\">declared<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it\u2019s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is,\u201d the doctor said on CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>This past February, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served on former President Trump\u2019s White House Coronavirus Task Force and is now President Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/double-up-dr-fauci-again-changes-mask-wearing-recommendation\">said<\/a> that wearing two masks is likely more effective than wearing one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on it, just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,\u201d Fauci told NBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/united-facts-of-america-a-festival-of-fact-checking\/#1617292338605-0c765c01-ab81\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;earlier this month, PolitiFact\u2019s Katie Sanders asked Fauci: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of cloudiness around the origins of&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;still, so I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo actually,\u201d Fauci said, \u201cI am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that\u2019s the reason why I said I\u2019m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus,\u201d Fauci added.<\/p>\n<p>But a year ago, Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd\">said<\/a>: \u201cIf you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what\u2019s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated. Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you accept the premise, which is very strongly supported by scientific evidence, that it was not deliberately mutated and deliberately changed, and you say, if it was in the wild and evolving, the likelihood it jumped species naturally, someone will say, \u2018Well, maybe somebody took it from the wild, put it in the lab, and then it escaped from the lab.\u2019 But that means it was in the wild to begin with!\u201d said Fauci.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/counting-down-dr-faucis-5-biggest-covid-flip-flops\">Counting Down Dr. Fauci\u2019s 5 Biggest COVID Flip-Flops<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will the COVID-19 pandemic be over?For more than a quarter of Americans surveyed, it\u2019s already finished.In a nationwide poll conducted May 14-16 of more than 1,500 people by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312739,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mask-2-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Quarter Of Americans Say COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over: Poll","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mask-2-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Quarter Of Americans Say COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over: Poll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537680","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}