Posted on 06/23/2021 6:32:12 PM PDT by lightman
It's been over a month since the CDC finally got with the science and updated their guidelines to acknowledge that those who have been fully vaccinated do not need to wear masks indoors. And yet many still remain hesitant to accept that, as shown by polls which Matt and I have highlighted. A new poll from the Monmouth University Polling Institute released on Wednesday reflects such paranoia as well.
The headline chooses to highlight how "Covid Illness Anxiety Plummets Amid Some Unease Over Low Vax Rate." That anxiety, the poll write-up mentions, "stands at its lowest level since the pandemic began," as it should.
The write-up also addresses the frequency of mask-wearing:
Despite the new guidance, nearly 4 in 10 (38%) Americans say they are still wearing a mask about as often as they did before – including 41% of those who have been vaccinated. There are some partisan differences within this group, with vaccinated Democrats (51%) being more likely than vaccinated Republicans (23%) to wear masks with the same frequency. Another 34% of the public are wearing masks less often since the new CDC guidance was issued, while 12% have dropped mask-wearing entirely and 15% say they rarely wore masks to begin with.
That 38 percent of respondents who say they are still wearing masks "about as often" as before is actually a plurality. The 12 percent who say they are now "not at all" wearing a mask are in the smallest category. Further, that 51 percent of Democrats include those who have been vaccinated.
Another takeaway from the poll is that a majority are still "concerned... about another surge happening if not enough people get vaccinated." This includes 26 percent of respondents who are "very concerned" and a plurality, at 31 percent, who are "somewhat concerned." Thirty-nine percent of Democrats are equally "very concerned" and "somewhat concerned."
The poll was conducted over the telephone from June 9 to June 14, with 810 adults and a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points plus or minus. By party breakdown, it was 24 percent Republican, 44 percent Independent, and 32 percent Democrat.
Full Monmouth University press release:
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_us_062321.pdf/
And even more data including previous polls:
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_062321/
It truly has become a Covid cult.
CNN accomplished this.
Yup.
CNN , the other stupid man’s cult.
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My wife’s ex sent us pictures from his father’s day. There he is with two masks on. And yes, his car proudly sports a Biden sticker.
Well at least we don’t have to worry about the uniform thing.
I just went to Smart and Final here in CA. store was very busy I was the only person in the store without a mask on 8 days ago masks were no longer mandated and these FOOLS refuse to give up the mask!!
The Linuses and Lucindas love their face blankies.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Time to have fun with it ,
when they look at us with the scared look we should shout
” i AM Covid !! RUN !!!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !!! “
Maybe drool , sneeze and cough a little.
And here I thought all along that Republicans were stupid and science-deniers?!?!
This is a self correcting problem. They will eventually suffocate themselves. They also let other people know they are “part of the problem”, unthinking shlubs.
The funny thing about my trip was that more people were wearing masks in Indiana and S.D. than were wearing them in Illinois, Wisconsin, or Minnesota.
I was pleasantly surprised when I went to the grocery store in Ohio when I got back that only a handful of people were wearing masks. This area only went 55-45 for Trump.
Fauci accomplished this. It is amazing what a single petty bureaucrat can accomplish, and how he did most of it while standing right next to the President. I personally am waiting to hear about any bad thing to happen to him, anything at all. Hopefully several bad things will happen to him. I actually kind of wouldn’t mind if his family members, any or all of them, had some bad luck as long as I get to hear about it.
If you want to have some fun with the masked Covidians, go up to them and tell them that you are glad that unvaxed people like them are following the instructions to wear masks.
“It truly has become a Covid cult.”
Yep, The Branch Covidians.
When I see one of these mask weenies, I think to myself, “That’s who I want to play poker against!”
I honestly believe this is some sort of virtual signaling from them LOOK AT ME I CARE!! Absolute idiots I KNOW 90% of them are also vaccinated which I am NOT!! I refuse to live under their scare tactics and propaganda!! They are starting again all ready about the variants are FAR MORE contagious AND deadly, the PUSH for this vaccine scares me a hell of a lot more than CV19!,
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