Sixty-five percent of Americans think social distancing restrictions should remain in place through June or later
’s push to “reopen” the country ASAP and “LIBERATE” citizens from the shackles of social distancing. That, in turn, might lead you to think that a majority of Americans were crazy, given that people staying home is the number one reason the death toll prediction for COVID-19 has been revised downward to “only”.
and the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, most people think it will be June or longer before it’s safe for large gatherings to occur. Asked when people expect the outbreak to be controlled enough that people can safely attend gatherings of 10 or more people, just 10% predict such gatherings would be safe by the end of April or earlier, while another 21% expect them to be safe by the end of May. More than twice as many—65%—say it may take until June or later for people to safely gather in groups of 10 or more.
These results unsurprisingly came in as more and more people developed a personal connection to the deadly disease. The poll found that 26% of adults knew someone who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, up from 11% in mid-to-late March, while 14% said they knew someone who had been hospitalized, and 9% knew someone who had died from it.
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