Exclusive: 43% of Americans say a specific organization or people to blame for COVID-19

[DonViejo]

Susan Page and Sarah Elbeshbishi
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – One in 4 Americans, including nearly half of Asian Americans, in recent weeks have seen someone blame Asian people for the coronavirus epidemic, a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds.

The nationwide survey was taken Thursday and Friday in the wake of last week's mass shooting in Georgia that killed eight people, six of them women of Asian descent. Reports across the country of physical assaults and verbal abuse against Asian Americans have jumped during the yearlong pandemic.

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While a 57% majority of Americans describe the coronavirus pandemic as a natural disaster, 43% say they believe a particular organization or people is responsible. In response to an open-ended question, most in that group specified China, comprising nearly 1 in 4 of the total survey.

The online poll of 1,195 adults has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/21/poll-1-4-americans-has-seen-asians-blamed-covid-19/4740043001

[uponit7771]

1. Same % of people who approved of Putin's Whore

[luckone]

2. ....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215254112

[dalton99a]

3. The scapegoating campaign was officially promoted by a racist president

The piece of shit is still promoting it

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. They can't blame Trump or 'Murica, of course.

Other than liberals, they love the old myths about 'Murica.

[dalton99a]

5. Or American travelers escaping the lockdowns in Europe:

O’Hare International Airport, March 15, 2020 (AP)

[torius]

7. That was when Trump cut off travel to Europe

with no notice and Americans there thought they would be stuck so they flooded back. The crowds seeded the virus in the whole US.

[lagomorph777]

6. "...specific organization or people..." TЯUMP

They worded the question to deliberately obfuscate the answers.

By lumping in China, WHO, and TЯUMP together, the answers become utterly meaningless.

Evidence shows that the virus was NOT engineered, but TЯUMP's non-response clearly WAS engineered.