Which Americans are most concerned about COVID
New New York Times Poll shows most interesting results
“One of the central findings is how much attitudes have changed since the spring. Americans are less worried about the virus today — and driving that decline is the receding level of anxiety among the very liberal, including many younger adults.
The share of the very liberal who say the virus presents a great risk to their own personal health has fallen to 34 percent. The 13-point drop since March was larger than the drop among any of the six other ideological self-identifications in the poll.”
“A growing number of very liberal Americans have decided that it’s time to treat Covid as an unpleasant but manageable part of life, much as many other Americans — as well as people in other countries — decided months ago.”
Share of adults who say Covid presents a great personal risk; from March to August 2022
Top line most liberal; from about 47% to 34% - biggest change
Bottom line conservative; pretty constant at about 13%
Black line, all adults; from about 23% to 20%
Based on surveys of 2,210 U.S. adults in March 2022 and 2,212 adults in August 2022.
Source: Morning Consult
Why are conservative the least concerned?
In this writer’s opinion, they are the best informed and smart about what protocols to use to prevent and resolve COVID infection. And maybe liberals have gotten smarter and less vulnerable to propaganda.
Thanks very much for this. "Very liberal" actually means doctrinaire wokeists, who try to assuage their own guilt by making the world a better place in a way which doesn't cost them much, but which enhances their own social standing according to their own way of thinking. Most often this is by using social media and other forms of action to make other people feel guilty about what they think, feel, do or don't do. This is a viral phenomenon which would not get very far if the mainstream media was critiquing it. Instead, those on the left participate in it.
Those on the right are not entirely uninvolved. They have their own ways of virtue signaling, not least enacting laws which prohibit the termination of pregnancies in which the fetus has no head:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-woman-carrying-fetus-skull-seek-abortion-another-state-rcna45005. (BTW, you can make these URLs whatever you like if you retain the final characters: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/eat-at-joes-rcna45005 .)
For the wokeists the COVID-19 panic and vaccinocentric response was like a new religion, a whole new set of things to add to their list of causes, such as the bizarre mis-characterisation and over-dramatisation of transsexuals, who were making their way in the world without too much fuss until about 5 or 10 years ago when they were sucked up into the vortex of the trans-activist shit-storm.
This small, social justice warrior, Woke, proportion of the population wield outsized influence in social media, mainstream media and education.
This makes interesting reading in the light of the Biden administration's violation of the First Amendment in its program of encouraging or forcing media companies to censor viewpoints contrary to their corrupt vaccinocentric, early treatment and nutrition denying official policies. See the parallels with this and Mao's Communist China: https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/michael-senger-on-faucis-red-guards and https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/faucis-red-guards-lawsuit-reveals .
The Californian legislature has passed an act which would allow the deregistration of doctors who communicate whatever the government regards as "misinformation", including in private to patients: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/100471 ", though there is now an exception for public communication: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/100471 ". . . misinformation defined as 'false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus' that a licensee 'deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or an intent to mislead'."
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