46% of Americans Want Fauci To Resign

Nearly half the nation believes that COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci lied about funding virus testing in China, and almost as many want him dumped from the post he’s held for 37 years.

In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 49% said he has not told the truth about U.S. funding for “gain-of-function” research.

When asked if he should be forced to resign as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 46% said yes and 40% said no.

The survey followed the recent release of a memo suggesting the United States supported and funded virus testing in China, where it is believed COVID-19 started or was developed.

It prompted a new round of calls, led by Sen. Rand Paul, to fire Fauci, beloved by his fans but despised by critics of mask and vaccine mandates.

Rasmussen said the release of the National Institutes of Health memo that appeared to contradict Fauci’s denial that federal funds had been used to fund controversial research in a Chinese laboratory cut into his credibility.

“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 33% of likely U.S. voters believe Fauci has told the truth about U.S. government funding for gain-of-function virus research. That’s a decline from June, when 40% believed Fauci had told the truth,” the analysis said.

As with all polls about Fauci, partisanship plays a role. For example, he remains popular among Democrats. Only 24% believe he should be ousted.

But among Republicans, 67% want him forced to resign.

I'm not alone in wanting Fauci to resign. Now, most Americans want him to resign too. #FauciLied https://t.co/9eifxF9kXG

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 29, 2021

The Balancing Act of Herd Immunity - Wealth vs Health

Harvard Suggest Intermittent Social Distancing Could Be More Effective

Harvard University researchers say an on-again, off-again approach to social distancing could be a more effective strategy to avoid overwhelming hospitals and to build herd immunity against the novel coronavirus — but other experts aren’t so sure.

An April study, conducted at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, championed intermittent social distancing — measures that are periodically reimposed when cases reach certain levels.

According to the researchers’ modeling, as long as social distancing occurred between 25 percent and 75 percent of the time, the world could both build immunity and keep the healthcare system from overloading.  Watch the video on this page.

Social distancing restrictions could be eased under various scenarios, according to the authors—if COVID-19 treatments become available, if hospitals can increase their intensive care bed capacity, if there’s aggressive contact tracing and quarantine, or if a vaccine is developed.

“I think social distancing interventions of some sort are going to have to continue, hopefully, lightened and in conjunction with other interventions,” said Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and co-senior author of the study, in an April 14 article in STAT.

Here is a video explaining how the no lockdown strategy and accelerated "herd immunity" might be working in Sweden but also explains the risks.   Sweden prefers to use the term "transmission" for fear that they are perceived as giving up on fighting the disease.  Sweden's strategy would mean their death toll will be higher earlier and lower later as herd immunity is achieved.  Thus, Sweden would not likely experience a second wave of transmission in the fall and winter months.   



It also raises the question of how many people are actually following the stay at home orders? 

Here is a Twitter poll asking if Intermittent social distancing would be effective? 

According to researchers' modelling, if social distancing occurred between 25 and 75 per cent of the time, the world could keep health-care systems from overloading.

Do you think that intermittent social distancing would be effective?

Read more: https://t.co/kohGB8tayJ

— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) May 4, 2020

Only Half Of Americans Likely To Comply With New COVID Lockdown

Here's the data, according to Gallup, based on the poll taken between Oct.19 and Nov.1:

• 49% say they're "very likely" to stay home for a month if mandated, down from 67% who said they would in the spring.
• 18% said they were "somewhat likely" to comply.
• One-third said they would be "unlikely" to comply with new lockdown orders.
• This despite 61% saying they believe the situation is getting worse.
• The number of respondents who said they'd be unlikely to comply is double the rate seen from polls in the spring.

About half of Americans in Gallup's latest polling on the COVID-19 pandemic, 49%, say they would be very likely to stay home for a month if public health officials recommended it due to a serious outbreak of the virus in their community. This contrasts with solid majorities in the spring who said they were likely to comply with such shelter-in-place advice, including a high of 67% in late March/early April.

Another 18% of Americans say they would be somewhat likely to follow public health officials' advice to stay home for a month, bringing the total inclined to comply to the majority level. But a full third say they would be very or somewhat unlikely to comply, about double the rate seen in the spring.

Most of the decline in Americans' willingness to follow shelter-in-place advice is due to a sharp drop among Republicans -- falling to 40% in Gallup's latest polling, from 74% in the spring. Democrats' willingness to stay at home has remained high, at 87% today versus 91% in March and April.

The latest data are from Gallup's Oct. 19-Nov. 1 probability-based panel survey tracking Americans' attitudes and behaviors related to the pandemic. The online Gallup Panel survey encompassed a period of rising COVID-19 cases across the country, with 31 states experiencing their highest one-day new infection rates thus far.

Relatively few Americans (29%) during this period thought their own area was "very likely" to experience a surge of coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, while another 40% considered it somewhat likely.

One significant change since April that may explain why Americans are now less likely to say they would go into home lockdown is that they have greater confidence in their ability to protect themselves from being infected by the coronavirus when out in public.

The percentage of feeling very or somewhat confident in their ability to avoid infection rose from 68% in mid-April to 82% in June and has since remained at that level.

Twitter Polls: Trump Destroyed Biden in the 1st Presidential Debate

Who won the first Presidential Debate?

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) September 30, 2020

Who won the first 2020 US Presidential debate?

Please like, retweet, brigade, and get emotionally invested in this meaningless twitter poll while I enjoy all of the traffic and upcummies.

— Enigma (@Enigma_vvv) September 30, 2020

 Twitter #Poll time. Which party are you/do you lean towards? Who do you feel won the debate tonight?#Debates2020

— M.J Vera (@mj33jm) September 30, 2020

 #Poll: Who do you think won tonight's debate?

— Daily Blast LIVE (@dailyblastlive) September 30, 2020

 #PresidentialDebate #debates

Voters, if you’ve decided on your candidate are you voting

— Coach Miller (@JaredLMiller) September 30, 2020

(Poll) How Much Rent Did you Pay or Receive in May?

If You Pay or Receive Rent for a Home or Business How Much Did you Pay or Receive in May?

— Disaster Relief Maps (@disastermapping)
May 5, 2020

(Poll) If You Pay or Receive Rent for a Home or Business How Much Did you Pay or Receive in May? 

A new Insider poll found 23% of Americans who owe a rent or a mortgage payment on Friday aren't sure they'll be able to pay it.

While 77% of respondents said they were set to make this month's payment, 12% said they don't have the money and 10% said they aren't sure if they'll have all of it.

Housing data previously found that about a third of renters did not pay rent to their landlord for the month of April.

Half of Small Businesses Haven’t Paid Full April Rent Rent, Early Poll Suggests

In what is likely the largest coordinated rent strike in the U.S. in recent history, people affected by the coronavirus shutdowns are telling their landlords not that they’ll pay rent later, but that they won’t pay at all.

The situation has led to the largest coordinated rent strike in the U.S. in decades: On May 1, tens of thousands of tenants are expected to join together as they tell their landlords they can’t pay rent. Some tenants who still have jobs will participate in solidarity. But for most, “this isn’t a matter of choice,” says Peter Meyer Reimer, an organizer with the groups Five Demands Global and Rent Strike 2020. “Thirty percent of Americans didn’t pay any rent at all last month, and this month it’s only going to be worse. A lot of those people are involuntary rent strikers. We’re trying just as quickly as we can to connect them up with other people so that they have some political cover, and so they have a chance at getting out of this without being saddled with debt for something that’s not their fault.”

In L.A., membership in the Los Angeles Tenants Union grew from 3,000 tenants before the pandemic to 8,000 by the middle of April; those tenants are all expected to strike. In New York, nearly 12,000 people have pledged not to pay rent on May 1, and some have coordinated building-wide strikes. Nationally, nearly 200,000 renters may participate.

USA Tenant Protections & Rent Strike Map

More than 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last six weeks, and millions more have tried but failed to file claims—and as overwhelmed unemployment offices are slow to pay benefits, many people don’t have the money to pay rent. Millions of people still haven’t received their stimulus checks; in cities like New York, where the rent for a typical one-bedroom apartment is nearly $3,000, a stimulus check for $1,200 won’t go far.