Posted on 01/30/2022 8:45:08 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Does this mean he will pardon Ian Smith?
I wonder the same thing! Why do they care? One friend said the unvaccinated are a danger because they can incubate new variants. But there is no evidence that the unvaccinated are responsible for new variants. There is ample evidence that triple vaxxed people are getting Omicron.
I think deep down the real reason they want other people to get vaxxed is because they demand universal *belief* in their religion.
To the leftists, unvaxxed people are heretics.
The vax is like circumcision. It's a physical proof of belief.
It's Kool-aide.
I’ve been living with it since Dr. Fasci and his fiends brought it over.
Send them a Christmas card and wish them well.
It is the exact opposite
the vaxed are creating the new variants!!
COVID-19: Democratic Voters Support Harsh Measures Against Unvaccinated
Thursday, January 13, 2022
While many voters have become skeptical toward the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of Democrats embrace restrictive policies, including punitive measures against those who haven’t gotten the COVID-19 vaccine.
A new Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 48% of voters favor President Joe Biden’s plan to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the employees of large companies and government agencies. That includes 33% who Strongly Favor the mandate. Forty-eight percent (48%) are opposed to Biden’s vaccine mandate, including 40% who Strongly Oppose the mandate. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Voters are similarly divided over the federal government’s top COVID-19 expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Forty-five percent (45%) view Fauci favorably, including 28% who have a Very Favorable impression of him. Forty-eight percent (48%) have an unfavorable impression of Fauci, including 34% who have a Very Unfavorable view of him.
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The even split among voters is the result of deep partisan divisions. While 78% of Democratic voters support the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate plan, only 22% of Republicans and 41% of voters not affiliated with either major party support the vaccine mandate. And many Democrats would support even harsher measures, including fines for Americans who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine and criminal punishment for vaccine critics.
“After two excruciatingly long years, likely voters are beginning to question the federal government’s handling of the pandemic,” said Chris Talgo, senior editor and research fellow at The Heartland Institute, which commissioned this poll. “First and foremost, likely voters are beginning to sour on Dr. Anthony Fauci, who seems to have lost credibility after countless flip-flops.”
Talgo continued: “Moreover, almost half of likely voters oppose President Biden’s vaccine mandates, which seem less about stopping the spread of COVID-19 and more about increasing the power of the federal government. When asked about several other potential strategies, such as fining those who refuse to get vaccinated, the consensus among likely voters is that the federal government should do less, not more.”
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The survey of 1,016 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on January 5, 2022 by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
The survey found that 75% of likely Democratic voters – but only 21% of Republicans and 38% of unaffiliated voters – have a favorable opinion of Dr. Fauci. Among other findings of the survey:
– Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters would oppose a proposal for federal or state governments to fine Americans who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine. However, 55% of Democratic voters would support such a proposal, compared to just 19% of Republicans and 25% of unaffiliated voters.
– Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a proposal is opposed by 61% of all likely voters, including 79% of Republicans and 71% of unaffiliated voters.
– Nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications. Only 27% of all voters – including just 14% of Republicans and 18% of unaffiliated voters – favor criminal punishment of vaccine critics.
– Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a policy would be opposed by a strong majority (71%) of all voters, with 78% of Republicans and 64% of unaffiliated voters saying they would Strongly Oppose putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities.”
– While about two-thirds (66%) of likely voters would be against governments using digital devices to track unvaccinated people to ensure that they are quarantined or socially distancing from others, 47% of Democrats favor a government tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.
How far are Democrats willing to go in punishing the unvaccinated? Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Democratic voters would support temporarily removing parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s much more than twice the level of support in the rest of the electorate – seven percent (7%) of Republicans and 11% of unaffiliated voters – for such a policy.
The survey also found that more black voters (63%) than whites (45%), Hispanics (55%) or other minorities (32%) support Biden’s vaccine mandate for government workers and employees of large companies.
President Biden’s strongest supporters are most likely to endorse the harshest punishments against those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine. Among voters who have a Very Favorable impression of Biden, 51% are in favor of government putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities,” and 54% favor imposing fines or prison sentences on vaccine critics. By contrast, among voters who have a Very Unfavorable view of Biden, 95% are against “designated facilities” for the unvaccinated and 93% are against criminal punishment for vaccine critics.
As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 produces a spike in cases nationwide, about three-quarters of Americans are already vaccinated against the coronavirus, and two-thirds of those have gotten booster shots.
Most Americans are concerned about new variants of the COVID-19 virus, but Democrats are more concerned than others, and place more trust in vaccines to protect against the disease.
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The survey of 1,016 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on January 5, 2022 by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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This guy is moderating for a presidential run. Don’t believe a word he says.
The woke left are the inheritors of the Puritan tradition—the consuming fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
Really? They have a poll with more than Americans *not* tired of the Covid crap?
Sorry, a poll with more than a quarter of Americans *not* tired of the Covid crap?
That we did.
How many were nursing home deaths.
Friend of my husband’s back there is vaxxed. Got the booster few weeks ago. Then got Covid. Mild case and he went to gym few days after isolating. While working out had chest pains. Went to hospital, they checked enzymes, he was ok. Went to his Dr who did an angiogram, said he had inflammation of his heart. Dr. said Covid caused it.
I believe it's more akin to "misery loves company".
If this vax is a dud (and it is getting to that stage), these vaxxed zealots want to ensure that you also got taken for the ride.
Because your relatives are stupid and brainwashed, like pretty much everybody else’s relatives these days.....mine included.
“How many were nursing home deaths”
Winner! Netanyahu/Bennett didn’t knowingly spread Covid to infirm oldsters like Murphy did.
As civilization devolves, doctors become witch-doctors—and can’t tell the difference between Covid side-effects and vaccine side-effects.
He knows the polls show people are tired of all the covid garbage and upcoming elections will be ugly unless they lighten up.
Murphy might have lost in his 2021 reelection if Republicans had poll watchers at 95% of the precincts like they did in Virginia. Instead I read that there was only 35% coverage so lots more cheating was able to happen. Republicans must fill all slots for election judges and poll watchers in tbe 2022 and 2024 elections.
I wish that Trump would encourage this at his rallies. Anyone who can stand for all the hours involved in attending a Trump rally is physically capable of working the polls. Dems fill the Republican slots in deep blue districts if no R’s are willing to go there. Cheating becomes very easy.
DUH!!! SLOW LEARNER!! SHORT BUS RIDER!
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