New POLL: 72% of Americans choose saving lives over the health of the U.S. Economy.

[2aguy]

New POLL: 72% of Americans choose saving lives over the health of the U.S. Economy.

Americans support drastic efforts to stop coronavirus, expect crisis to last for months in Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll
Joel Shannon, USA TODAY
USA TODAYApril 3, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT

The poll, conducted March 27-30 on behalf of Public Agenda and USA TODAY, surveyed U.S. adults as a part of the Hidden Common Ground initiative, which aims to examine issues that divide America along with potential solutions. The online poll has a credibility interval, akin to a margin of error, of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Americans choose saving lives over the health of the US economy
Clinton is among the majority (72%)of respondents who believe the government's priority should be saving lives by stopping the spread of the virus, as opposed to sparing the economy.

Only about 1 in 5 said the government's main priority should be saving the economy.

Americans support drastic efforts to stop coronavirus, expect crisis to last for months in Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll

Most Americans believe stopping the virus should be the U.S. government's top priority, even as social distancing measures ravage the economy.

www.yahoo.com

They don't know the information they need to answer that poll question, which is why they answered it the way they did.....

The destruction of the economy, pushed by the democrat members of the press and the democrat party.....will lead to more death and destruction than the virus.....this hasn't been explained to these people who only see barely one half of the question........

What happens during a decades or longer Great Depression? As you and the people around you can't find work, can't provide for your family, the alcoholism, the drug addiction, suicide, death and lost life chances for 10s of millions of Americans today and those not yet born?

The democrats want this destruction....it gives them power......their motto is evil....Never let a crisis go to waste.......because behind that motto is the action....creating and promoting the crisis so they can exploit it........that party is evil....to it's core.....racist, misogynist, violent....and willing to destroy a good, wonderful country simply to have power over it.....

 

[Uncensored2008]

New POLL: 72% of Americans choose saving lives over the health of the U.S. Economy.

Americans support drastic efforts to stop coronavirus, expect crisis to last for months in Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll
Joel Shannon, USA TODAY
USA TODAYApril 3, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT

The poll, conducted March 27-30 on behalf of Public Agenda and USA TODAY, surveyed U.S. adults as a part of the Hidden Common Ground initiative, which aims to examine issues that divide America along with potential solutions. The online poll has a credibility interval, akin to a margin of error, of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Americans choose saving lives over the health of the US economy
Clinton is among the majority (72%)of respondents who believe the government's priority should be saving lives by stopping the spread of the virus, as opposed to sparing the economy.

Only about 1 in 5 said the government's main priority should be saving the economy.

Americans support drastic efforts to stop coronavirus, expect crisis to last for months in Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll

Most Americans believe stopping the virus should be the U.S. government's top priority, even as social distancing measures ravage the economy.

www.yahoo.com

What a lot of people may not realize is that it isn't an "either-or" proposition. A collapsed economy and the poverty that ensues will create huge numbers of deaths. And further, a ruined economy will make it near impossible to get a cure for coronavirus or other future pestilences, as the people will be living at a subsistence level.

Based on what evidence?
Despite Hard Times, People Lived Longer During the Great Depression

Trump’s Baseless Claim That a Recession Would Be Deadlier Than the Coronavirus

If that's true, then why did life expectancy decrease during the depression?

Life expectancy in the USA, 1900-98

As usual, you're lying. Every claim you make about this subject turns out to be a gross lie:

The leftists forget about statistics when they rewrite history to promote current political goals.

 

[my2¢]

I suspect the attitude will reverse itself soon enough as the situation passes in four or five weeks.

 

[2aguy]

They shutdown the city for less than a month:

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San Francisco, California and the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic | The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia​

​

Interesting. So they didn't shut down the city for 18 months like Dr. Fauci would like to do with the country?

I agree that a short term lockdown period can have some benefit. But I don't think they had year long shutdowns even during the pandemic of 1349, which had a very healthy death rate..

The key here.....Dr. Fauci is a hilary clinton supporter....that should be more than enough to be suspicious of anything he recommends to the President.

 

[evenflow1969]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

No one belives this. Every one knows the economy is important. Having healthy people to work it is also important. Here we are dealing with a crisis the magnitude of which only happens every hundred years or so. Imagine you are the one dealing with it. We all know there are tipping point to whixh we can no longer come back from. We could lose enough lives that it could kill an economy for generations. On the other hand we could hurt the economy bad enough through our solutions of keeping every one alive bad enough to hurt the economy for generations. Pretty bad choices on both sides the fence. No one alive today has dealt with some thing of this magnitude. All we have to draw upon is the 1918 pandemic and how much of that info is even still available. I agree we need to do both try and save people and the economy. The question is how. Aside from a vaccine we only have two ways to go. Put most people back to work and risk the possibilty of every one on the planet contracting it., or try and quarintine until we have better medicine to deal with it. Either is a big risk. What is happening is worst case scenario. We are doing half measures which means we will likely do both destroy the economy and kill a large portion of the population. Beliving our scientists can combat this thing with a vaccine in the near future seems to be the best bet so drastic quarintine would be required. We know that in the past quarintine was a big part of how past generations dealt with it. So more good evidence on that side of the argument. That all being said we may never come up with a vaccine. Big risk all the way around but some one has to pull the trigger and make it one way or the other and hope for the best.

We have to accept the fact that democrats are engaged in treason. They are leveraging this event to weaken America and allow a foreign power, China, to gain supremacy over America. Every day America is idled will take a month for recovery.

Let me ask you, are the police immune from Wuhan virus? What about fire fighters? If not, shouldn't they shelter in place? Or are you saying they are expendable and their safety doesn't matter? What about truck drivers, shouldn't they shelter in place? Grocery store clerks? Shut down all stores for 6 months. And utility workers, let's shut off the lights and your XBox. No need for running water, we must shelter in place. Are you placing your want to flush toilets above the lives of utility workers?

Blah,blah, blah, your a dumb fuck. Both possibilties exist. No fucking treason just two choices as to how to go. Make a choice and go with with it. Either reopen economy now or quarintine enough to stop the spread. What other choice is there dumb fuck? Our leaders have not made either choice. Bad out comes couold happen with either choice. The worst will happen if no one has the balls to make the decision and we stay on current course. You are obviously on the side of open the economy now. I am on the side of quarinteen. The only way to find out who is right is for one trigger or the other to be pulled. Some one needs to decide and soon.

Duck and cover comrade?

See, none of you leftists can answer this. If grocery clerks can adapt to work safely, then why can't everyone else?

Yes, reopen the economy, NOW. Make provisions to protect ourselves, use PPE, space out, but OPEN AMERICA BACK UP.

Store clerks can practice social distancing and hang glass between them and the public. I work on a boat multiple people in small space all having to work in unicen and at closed quaters to get the fish on the boat. Having forty three guys with the shits on 11 foot waves working in close quarters is not likely a good idea. Belive me when I say I would rather be on the water especialy this time of year as the weather is getting alot better. My job is actually extremely fun for the next 5 months or so. I will be back to work tomarrow. My solution is getting a small boat in the water and just fish all by my lonesome. I would imagine that is what most the guys are doing. We can get away with it for the next month or so because the bite is crazy good right now but when the bite slows all those extra fuel costs from one guy per boat is going to add up. I am going from trying to take vacationers to have a good time and sport fish to trying to cover costs by selling the meat. no way this will work when water temps get over 68 degrees. Working in a whare house is a similar situation people have to get in close quarters to accomplishthe task.

Either way I would hop on your band wagon over the half measures being taken right now. The scuttle but around here is the governemnt is going the quarintine way and the national guard is quietly moving into place. I am not going to claim to know what will actually happen more than any one else.

 

[bripat9643]

New POLL: 72% of Americans choose saving lives over the health of the U.S. Economy.

Americans support drastic efforts to stop coronavirus, expect crisis to last for months in Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll
Joel Shannon, USA TODAY
USA TODAYApril 3, 2020, 4:30 AM EDT

The poll, conducted March 27-30 on behalf of Public Agenda and USA TODAY, surveyed U.S. adults as a part of the Hidden Common Ground initiative, which aims to examine issues that divide America along with potential solutions. The online poll has a credibility interval, akin to a margin of error, of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Americans choose saving lives over the health of the US economy
Clinton is among the majority (72%)of respondents who believe the government's priority should be saving lives by stopping the spread of the virus, as opposed to sparing the economy.

Only about 1 in 5 said the government's main priority should be saving the economy.

Americans support drastic efforts to stop coronavirus, expect crisis to last for months in Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll

Most Americans believe stopping the virus should be the U.S. government's top priority, even as social distancing measures ravage the economy.

www.yahoo.com

What a lot of people may not realize is that it isn't an "either-or" proposition. A collapsed economy and the poverty that ensues will create huge numbers of deaths. And further, a ruined economy will make it near impossible to get a cure for coronavirus or other future pestilences, as the people will be living at a subsistence level.

Based on what evidence?
Despite Hard Times, People Lived Longer During the Great Depression

Trump’s Baseless Claim That a Recession Would Be Deadlier Than the Coronavirus

If that's true, then why did life expectancy decrease during the depression?

Life expectancy in the USA, 1900-98

As usual, you're lying. Every claim you make about this subject turns out to be a gross lie:

The leftists forget about statistics when they rewrite history to promote current political goals.

Notice that Seawytch has shut her yap since I posted the proof that she's lying.

 

[Polishprince]

They shutdown the city for less than a month:

​

San Francisco, California and the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic | The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia​

​

Interesting. So they didn't shut down the city for 18 months like Dr. Fauci would like to do with the country?

I agree that a short term lockdown period can have some benefit. But I don't think they had year long shutdowns even during the pandemic of 1349, which had a very healthy death rate..

The key here.....Dr. Fauci is a hilary clinton supporter....that should be more than enough to be suspicious of anything he recommends to the President.

The other key point is that Dr. Fauci is really into this, after decades of toiling in anonymity he is finally a rock star. Libs are petitioning to name him "sexiest man alive", no shit. If this disappears in a few more weeks, so does Fauci's celebrity status.

Petition to name Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ gains momentum

He’s a doughnut, he’s a bobblehead, he could be the “Sexiest Man Alive.” Dr. Anthony Fauci has become an unlikely celebrity and hero during the coronavirus pandemic, thanks …

nypost.com

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Nothing is more important than money ..

We can easily sacrifice 10 million people and still have great returns on our stock portfolio., especially if you own funeral home stocks

 

[bripat9643]

They shutdown the city for less than a month:

​

San Francisco, California and the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic | The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia​

​

Interesting. So they didn't shut down the city for 18 months like Dr. Fauci would like to do with the country?

I agree that a short term lockdown period can have some benefit. But I don't think they had year long shutdowns even during the pandemic of 1349, which had a very healthy death rate..

The key here.....Dr. Fauci is a hilary clinton supporter....that should be more than enough to be suspicious of anything he recommends to the President.

I've been telling people for weeks not to believe a thing he says.

 

[Polishprince]

Nothing is more important than money ..

We can easily sacrifice 10 million people and still have great returns on out stock portfolio., especially if you own funeral home stocks

There is no reason to think that 10 million Americans would be killed by this coronavirus bullshit. Here in Ohio, experts say more than a million have been infected, but only 91 have attained Room Temperature.

 

[bripat9643]

Nothing is more important than money ..

We can easily sacrifice 10 million people and still have great returns on out stock portfolio., especially if you own funeral home stocks

No such number of people are in any danger of dying. All the people who are in danger are over 65, and they probably aren't working. All you TDS morons are spouting hesteria because you believe it will defet Trump, and for no other reason. You're all a bunch of fucking douchebags.

 

[2aguy]

Nothing is more important than money ..

We can easily sacrifice 10 million people and still have great returns on our stock portfolio., especially if you own funeral home stocks

Moron.....the economy isn't money, it is lives........how many lives are going to be lost with a decades long Great Depression? You moron. Lives lost to having lost the future for their children.......death from hopelessness, drug and alcohol addiction.....you asswipes want to hide that so that you can destroy Trump and push your agenda......you will burn it all down so you control what is left in the ashes......you are monsters...

 

[2aguy]

Nothing is more important than money ..

We can easily sacrifice 10 million people and still have great returns on out stock portfolio., especially if you own funeral home stocks

No such number of people are in any danger of dying. All the people who are in danger are over 65, and they probably aren't working. All you TDS morons are spouting hesteria because you believe it will defet Trump, and for no other reason. You're all a bunch of fucking douchebags.

There is another reason.....they hate this country and hope the virus will crush it......the destruction of the economy is what they have wanted since Marx first wrote that evil book...... You can see it in what the democrat governors are saying.......

Scratch a socialist and reveal a tyrant? Not anymore......you don't have to scratch them.....the tyrant is bursting out of these democrats like the face hugger from Alien....they are literally drooling in anticipation of a Great Depression.....the Crisis they have all been waiting for, praying for to their god "Government...."

 

[Polishprince]

.they are literally drooling in anticipation of a Great Depression.....the Crisis they have all been waiting for, praying for to their god "Government...."

The Great Depression years were the high point of Liberalism here in America. They had this guy, FDR, who tried to fix everything. Established unemployment checks, social security, welfare checks, public housing projects and so much more. Didn't cure the economic woes however, the Friday before Japan pulled a Pearl Harbor job on us in Hawaii, we still had double digit unemployment.

 

[U2Edge]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

Yes, no focus on slowing the curve. Because as we've been advised by an Orange Turd, MILLIONS would be committing suicide!

So why hasn’t the curve been flattened in NY, where #PresidentCuomo is in charge?

Doesn't have a damn thing to do with politics. It has to do with incompetency at the top.

So where is the Democrat plan to deal with it? Two months ago they were telling us President Trump was the greatest threat to national security, not a virus spreading through Asia.

I think they have been proven right given Trump's failure to stop or contain the virus in the United States.

 

[Polishprince]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

Yes, no focus on slowing the curve. Because as we've been advised by an Orange Turd, MILLIONS would be committing suicide!

So why hasn’t the curve been flattened in NY, where #PresidentCuomo is in charge?

Doesn't have a damn thing to do with politics. It has to do with incompetency at the top.

So where is the Democrat plan to deal with it? Two months ago they were telling us President Trump was the greatest threat to national security, not a virus spreading through Asia.

I think they have been proven right given Trump's failure to stop or contain the virus in the United States.

What would Sleepy Joe have done to prevent the virus ? How would Biden's Open Border policy helped to contain it?

 

[bripat9643]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

Yes, no focus on slowing the curve. Because as we've been advised by an Orange Turd, MILLIONS would be committing suicide!

So why hasn’t the curve been flattened in NY, where #PresidentCuomo is in charge?

Doesn't have a damn thing to do with politics. It has to do with incompetency at the top.

So where is the Democrat plan to deal with it? Two months ago they were telling us President Trump was the greatest threat to national security, not a virus spreading through Asia.

I think they have been proven right given Trump's failure to stop or contain the virus in the United States.

Of course you believe they were proven right. All TDS morons believe that.

 

[U2Edge]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

It's not going to crash. The next two stimulus packages will be half a trillion in direct payments to people, and universal health care.

And not one dime for corporations or tax cuts of any kind.

I just hope Trumkinland will be able to cope with the fact non whites will be getting money from the government.

Of course my challenge to all of them about becoming Maga Martyrs, and sacrificing themselves for the cause is still open.

So you think that the average person should get a few bucks, and universal health care (which will have to be paid for from this point on)...

But the corporations and business owners that actually hire people should just be left to absorb the losses or go under???

The 16th Amendment: Establishing Federal Income Tax

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave Congress the power to collect a federal income tax. Learn more about the amendment and its history.

www.thoughtco.com

According to the IRS’ most recent analysis of the distribution of the income tax burden, the top one percent of income earners paid 37 percent of all income taxes in Tax Year 2016. This was nearly twice as much as their 19.7 percent share of income. Breaking this down, the top 25 percent of earners paid nearly 86 percent of all income tax.


Gee, what happens when the "free money" runs out because almost nobody is PAYING IN???

I wonder how much tax government will collect when there is no economic activity to tax?

The shelter-in-place-for-eternity crowd has no idea what they are talking about

The Essential services economy is booming! Health Care is booming! The Production of medical supplies is booming! The delivery service is booming! Grocery Stores and Pharmacy's are booming! There is a new economy that is taking the place of the old.

 

[U2Edge]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

Yes, no focus on slowing the curve. Because as we've been advised by an Orange Turd, MILLIONS would be committing suicide!

So why hasn’t the curve been flattened in NY, where #PresidentCuomo is in charge?

Doesn't have a damn thing to do with politics. It has to do with incompetency at the top.

So where is the Democrat plan to deal with it? Two months ago they were telling us President Trump was the greatest threat to national security, not a virus spreading through Asia.

I think they have been proven right given Trump's failure to stop or contain the virus in the United States.

What would Sleepy Joe have done to prevent the virus ? How would Biden's Open Border policy helped to contain it?

Biden would not have dismissed the Pathogen as just flu like Trump did. He would have been more likely to take aggressive shut down efforts as well as block or restrict foreign travel from all countries like Taiwan and Japan did. Trump failed to act, and just banning travel from China does almost nothing given how people travel around the world today as well as the fact that the virus was spreading to various parts of the globe within hours thanks to air-travel. Just blocking travel from one country, China, made no sense.

 

[bripat9643]

Do these people think letting the economy crash will have no negative impact or cost lives just curious if they consider that. It's rather sad that we have become such an either or society and that we now believe we can't try and accomplish both keeping people safe and saving the economy.

It's not going to crash. The next two stimulus packages will be half a trillion in direct payments to people, and universal health care.

And not one dime for corporations or tax cuts of any kind.

I just hope Trumkinland will be able to cope with the fact non whites will be getting money from the government.

Of course my challenge to all of them about becoming Maga Martyrs, and sacrificing themselves for the cause is still open.

So you think that the average person should get a few bucks, and universal health care (which will have to be paid for from this point on)...

But the corporations and business owners that actually hire people should just be left to absorb the losses or go under???

The 16th Amendment: Establishing Federal Income Tax

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave Congress the power to collect a federal income tax. Learn more about the amendment and its history.

www.thoughtco.com

According to the IRS’ most recent analysis of the distribution of the income tax burden, the top one percent of income earners paid 37 percent of all income taxes in Tax Year 2016. This was nearly twice as much as their 19.7 percent share of income. Breaking this down, the top 25 percent of earners paid nearly 86 percent of all income tax.


Gee, what happens when the "free money" runs out because almost nobody is PAYING IN???

I wonder how much tax government will collect when there is no economic activity to tax?

The shelter-in-place-for-eternity crowd has no idea what they are talking about

The Essential services economy is booming! Health Care is booming! The Production of medical supplies is booming! The delivery service is booming! Grocery Stores and Pharmacy's are booming! There is a new economy that is taking the place of the old.

Happy days are here again!