Americans, by a large 30-point margin, are resistant to re-opening the country now, believing the risk to human life of opening the country outweighs the economic toll of remaining under restrictive lockdowns — a concern that starkly divides along partisan lines, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos released Friday. CONT. […] Read more »
Massachusetts: Only Half Of Mass. Nurses Say Workplace Has Enough Protective Equipment
A new WBUR poll of over 400 Massachusetts nurses finds that only about half say their workplace has enough personal protective gear. Many feel constantly or most of the time that they’re in danger of being infected by the coronavirus at work. And yet, morale remains strong. CONT. Carey Goldberg, […] Read more »
Pandemic Pollwatch: Civil liberties implications of contact-tracing apps
This is the eighth in a series of weekly papers from GQR summarizing and analyzing all available data on global opinion on COVID-19, with a particular focus on the political implications of global opinion linked to the pandemic. … As a global debate heats up over the civil liberties implications […] Read more »
Americans remain concerned that states will lift restrictions too quickly, but partisan differences widen
A sizable majority of Americans (68%) continue to say their greater concern is that state governments will lift coronavirus-related restrictions on public activity too quickly. Fewer than half as many (31%) say their greater concern is that states will not lift restrictions quickly enough, according to a new Pew Research […] Read more »
Tracking The Pandemic In The Battleground: Wave 2
The Tea Party-Trump Republican Party was forced to lead the country’s response to the pandemic and that accelerated the polarization of the country and marginalization of the GOP — at a very high human cost. Donald Trump took leadership of a modern Republican Party shaped profoundly by the Tea Party […] Read more »
The coronavirus election
Before anyone ever heard of COVID-19, America was going through the final stages of a political realignment. Then the coronavirus set into motion a tectonic shift, transforming the country in ways none of us could have imagined. The costs of the pandemic to our society are incalculable. But one thing […] Read more »