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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 02:34:30 PDT 2022


New Survey Reveals Significant Doubts About Masks And Vaccines

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/07/07/americans-reflect-on-nations-covid-19-response/
https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/the-pointless-drive-to-make-masks
https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/public-health-erred-on-the-side-of

Asked to look back at the pandemic and assess public health
recommendations aimed at limiting Covid-19 spread, only about half of
Americans now think masks and vaccines have been very effective or
extremely effective.

That's the finding of a new Pew Research survey of more than 10,000
adults, which provides insights into Americans' thinking about many
aspects of the pandemic.

Only 48% think "wearing masks around other people indoors" has been
extremely or very effective; 23% give masks a lukewarm "somewhat
effective" grade. Defying two years of public health preaching, 28%
say they're either "not too" or "not at all effective."

We wonder...what percent of Americans know that the holes in surgical
masks are up to 1,000 times larger than Covid-19 particles?

Given rampant breakthrough infections and a regime that's pushing
fourth injections on people, it's not surprising that just 55% of
Americans say vaccines have been extremely or very effective in
limiting Covid spread. Indeed, it's a testament to the public health
apparatus and its major media stenographers that the number isn't
lower—yet.

Americans have serious concerns about the effect of the pandemic and
public health interventions on schoolchildren: 62% say that too little
priority has been given to meeting the educational needs of K-12
students.

Over the course of the pandemic and its associated school closures,
Americans have witnessed not only severe "learning loss," but also
sharp increases in juvenile anxiety, depression and suicide attempts.
Even when schools opened for in-person instruction, the damage to
learning continued with the pointless masking of children, which
impedes communication and harms social interactions.

When asked to evaluate "public health officials, such as those at the
CDC," only about half of Americans say they've done an excellent or
good job.

Attitudes differ sharply by political orientation: 72% of Democrats
and Democrat-leaning independents say public health officials have
done an excellent or good job, compared to just 29% of Republicans and
Republican-leaners. (Below, we'll use just each party name to
reference both party members and leaners.)

Similarly, 75% of Democrats say vaccines have been extremely or very
effective, compared to just 32% of Republicans...while 71% of
Democrats give those high marks to masking, compared to just 21% of
Republicans.


It's interesting to note that, in the first month of the outbreak,
Republicans actually gave public health officials higher marks than
Democrats did. That probably reflects Republicans reflexively
approving of the government's performance when a Republican was in the
White House; the grades quickly plummeted though, and kept falling
over the balance of his tenure.

On the other side of the aisle, where Fauci fandom is woven into the
ideology, support for public health officials is essentially
unchanged.

Here's a grab-bag of other findings from the Pew survey:

    From April 2020 to today, the percent concerned they'll be
hospitalized for Covid has fallen by more than half, from 79% to 34%
    46% of Americans have either tested positive for Covid-19 or are
pretty sure they had it
    49% of Americans are fully vaccinated and boosted within the last six months
    56% of fully-vaxxed Republicans have boosted, compared to 75% of
fully-vaxxed Democrats
    60% of Republicans are fully vaccinated, compared to 85% of Democrats


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