76% of Americans support or strongly support locking down for another 2 weeks, with merely 11% opposing, according to a new Insider poll
, and more states announcing plans to reopen theirs in the coming weeks.
While health officials have said the stay-at-home orders are necessary to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, critics have said some have gone too far. Attorney General William Barr on Monday that the Justice Department would intervene if stay-at-home orders were too restrictive. "These kinds of restrictions have been necessary in order to stop the spread of a deadly disease — but there is no denying that they have imposed tremendous burdens on the daily lives of all Americans," Barr .
SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respondents are incentivized to complete surveys through charitable contributions. Generally speaking, digital polling tends to skew toward people with access to the internet. SurveyMonkey Audience doesn't try to weigh its sample based on race or income. A total of 1,099respondents were collected April 28-29, 2020, with a margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points and a 95% confidence level.
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