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Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore?
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:26 am
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:26 am
Opinions | Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore?
© Matt Rourke/AP
I may be just a small-town political scientist, but I reckon that telling Americans not to worry about something that worries them is usually a fool’s errand. Short of a comprehensive elite consensus, those preferences are unlikely to shift anytime soon. The thing about the American public is that their preferences are their preferences — they might seem misplaced, but they are nonetheless real.
Consider, for example, Americans’ concerns about inflation and the pandemic. The Pew Research Center surveyed Americans late last month, and the results are striking:
Does this rank ordering of problems make sense?
No doubt, inflation has run rather hot as of late. I have seen some economists suggest that the public is misunderstanding the sources of problem. This confuses the source of inflation with public concerns about it. Telling Americans that they should chill about inflation because it is due to supply-side concerns is not going to work. Americans do not care why there is inflation, they just care that it exists. Even if some of us have different policy priorities, inflation being the primary concern of Americans is understandable.
What is somewhat more baffling is the problem that came in dead last. According to the Pew report, “more than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, just 19% of Americans rate the coronavirus outbreak as a very big problem for the country, the lowest share out of 12 issues included in the survey.” Two years ago, that number was at 58 percent.
This seems … I don’t know, nuts? It is not like the pandemic has disappeared. The United States has just passed the mark of 1 million dead. Average new infections are still near 100,000 a day.
Furthermore, the problem might get worse as funding for additional coronavirus boosters stalls in Congress. According to NBC News’s Shannon Pettypiece, “the federal government doesn’t have enough money to begin contract negotiations with Pfizer and Moderna for new versions of vaccines the companies are developing for the fall. The government would need to secure contracts for those vaccine doses in the coming weeks if it is to ensure enough supply for the entire country.”
The result could be a situation in which the federal government rations the vaccines for only the highest-risk Americans. This could be a big deal four months from now. As Pettypiece reports, “projections by public health officials inside and outside the administration suggest the country is likely to experience another surge in cases in the fall and the winter as immunity wanes and the coronavirus is expected to continue mutating.”
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© Matt Rourke/AP
I may be just a small-town political scientist, but I reckon that telling Americans not to worry about something that worries them is usually a fool’s errand. Short of a comprehensive elite consensus, those preferences are unlikely to shift anytime soon. The thing about the American public is that their preferences are their preferences — they might seem misplaced, but they are nonetheless real.
Consider, for example, Americans’ concerns about inflation and the pandemic. The Pew Research Center surveyed Americans late last month, and the results are striking:
Does this rank ordering of problems make sense?
No doubt, inflation has run rather hot as of late. I have seen some economists suggest that the public is misunderstanding the sources of problem. This confuses the source of inflation with public concerns about it. Telling Americans that they should chill about inflation because it is due to supply-side concerns is not going to work. Americans do not care why there is inflation, they just care that it exists. Even if some of us have different policy priorities, inflation being the primary concern of Americans is understandable.
What is somewhat more baffling is the problem that came in dead last. According to the Pew report, “more than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, just 19% of Americans rate the coronavirus outbreak as a very big problem for the country, the lowest share out of 12 issues included in the survey.” Two years ago, that number was at 58 percent.
This seems … I don’t know, nuts? It is not like the pandemic has disappeared. The United States has just passed the mark of 1 million dead. Average new infections are still near 100,000 a day.
Furthermore, the problem might get worse as funding for additional coronavirus boosters stalls in Congress. According to NBC News’s Shannon Pettypiece, “the federal government doesn’t have enough money to begin contract negotiations with Pfizer and Moderna for new versions of vaccines the companies are developing for the fall. The government would need to secure contracts for those vaccine doses in the coming weeks if it is to ensure enough supply for the entire country.”
The result could be a situation in which the federal government rations the vaccines for only the highest-risk Americans. This could be a big deal four months from now. As Pettypiece reports, “projections by public health officials inside and outside the administration suggest the country is likely to experience another surge in cases in the fall and the winter as immunity wanes and the coronavirus is expected to continue mutating.”
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Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:30 am to djmed
Setting up the premise of another election of drop boxes. These Mules gotta get paid somehow.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:31 am to djmed
well I did not really give a shite about it around May 2020 or so, not much has changed on that front in two years
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:32 am to djmed
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additional coronavirus boosters
- Boosting vax for the alpha strain that was gone before the vax program started?
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funding
And the crass capitalist in me agrees that greed is a big factor here, but it is a secondary one to that of control.
This has always, ever and only been about control.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:32 am to Face69
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Setting up the premise of another election of drop boxes. These Mules gotta get paid somehow.
Nobody’s buying it, though. People are DONE with this. They realize it’s a freaking cold at this point.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:34 am to djmed
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Furthermore, the problem might get worse as funding for additional coronavirus boosters stalls in Congress.
Sorry Mr. garbage media man.
The money went to Ukraine. Sorry you didn’t sell your Moderna and Pfizer stock in time.
This post was edited on 5/16/22 at 8:36 am
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:35 am to djmed
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Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore?
lived experience
When millions contracted Omicron and realized they had feared a cold, a mindset shift occurred.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:35 am to djmed
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Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore?
I haven't given a frick since April 2020
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:38 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Nobody’s buying it, though. People are DONE with this. They realize it’s a freaking cold at this point.
Never underestimate the ability to make all liberals go batshit crazy with just a little trash media manipulation.
90 percent of them crying over Ukraine could not find it on a map. They are hive minded. Get their instruction out there and Coronavirus is that new thing they worship.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:43 am to Ace Midnight
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This has always, ever and only been about control.
I've come to the conclusion decades ago that the DEMs would rather have total control over a 3rd world country than have to actually compete for leadership of a 1st world country.
They would love to be President For EVER in Venezuela - it has resources to exploit while the people live groveling for life.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:59 am to djmed
quote:this should have been the policy all along, if we ever even needed a “vaccine”
The result could be a situation in which the federal government rations the vaccines for only the highest-risk Americans.
This post was edited on 5/16/22 at 8:59 am
Posted on 5/16/22 at 9:01 am to djmed
We should have never worried about it in the first place. No lockdowns or anything the virus would have run it’s course and been done.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 9:01 am to djmed
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Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore?
Bc they were told to look at the new shiny items
Posted on 5/16/22 at 9:09 am to djmed
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The United States has just passed the mark of 1 million dead. Average new infections are still near 100,000 a day.
Talk about cherry picking why we should be concerned.
The first strain was new, and more lethal to certain demographics because we didn't know anything about the symptoms and treatment.
Second strain was less lethal but we still struggled a bit. And the strain weakened.
Third strain was mostly not lethal and forth strain is nothing more than a cold.
We aren't worried any longer because our politicians are "worried" about the wrong things and 81% of people (according to this likely fake poll) see through the charade. Majority of the deaths came from the initial strains. Not what we have now.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 9:12 am to djmed
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funding for additional coronavirus boosters stalls in Congress.
If we’re lucky.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 9:13 am to djmed
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The United States has just passed the mark of 1 million dead. Average new infections are still near 100,000 a day.
600,000 under the “president” who said he’d shut down the virus, not the economy.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 10:08 am to djmed
Because if was blown out of proportion and people are starting to realize that.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 11:40 am to skullhawk
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When millions contracted Omicron and realized they had feared a cold, a mindset shift occurred.
This is exactly right. I saw it with a few covidians I know.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 11:46 am to djmed
OP:
Read up on PCR testing. The 1M deaths & case counts are fraud.
Read up on PCR testing. The 1M deaths & case counts are fraud.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 11:49 am to djmed
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disappeared. The United States has just passed the mark of 1 million dead. Average new infections are still near 100,000 a day.
Over 2 years. And that’s not the number of people who died of Covid.
Sure there are cases.. but hospitals aren’t being overran.
Most health departments aren’t reporting daily, resorting to weekly updates at minimum now to report what little data there is to report
It’s been 2 years.
Things are going to shite .
You can still stay inside and wear 3 masks and quadruple boost.
Make your choices. Live your life how you want to
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