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Just over a third of Americans think the U.S. pandemic response is 'going well,' a new poll says.
Source: New York Times
As the anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration approaches this week, American opinion of his efforts to contain the pandemic is lower than ever, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll.
The poll, released on Sunday, found just 36 percent of respondents believed U.S. efforts to deal with the coronavirus were “going well.” Just 49 percent of Americans approved of the president’s management of the pandemic, compared to 66 percent of Americans who gave the same response in July, in a previous version of the poll.
Seventy-eight percent of those who approved of the president’s handling of the pandemic identified as liberal, and 83 percent who disapproved identified as conservative.
The president’s first year in office included widespread distribution of coronavirus vaccines, the rise of the aggressive Delta variant and, most recently, the record-breaking surge of Omicron overwhelming hospitals across the country. The federal government faced a significant setback in its efforts to curb the spread of the virus when the Supreme Court rejected a vaccine-or-testing mandate for private employers that would have affected more than 80 million workers. But the court allowed a more limited mandate that requires health care workers at facilities that receive federal money to be vaccinated.
The poll, released on Sunday, found just 36 percent of respondents believed U.S. efforts to deal with the coronavirus were “going well.” Just 49 percent of Americans approved of the president’s management of the pandemic, compared to 66 percent of Americans who gave the same response in July, in a previous version of the poll.
Seventy-eight percent of those who approved of the president’s handling of the pandemic identified as liberal, and 83 percent who disapproved identified as conservative.
The president’s first year in office included widespread distribution of coronavirus vaccines, the rise of the aggressive Delta variant and, most recently, the record-breaking surge of Omicron overwhelming hospitals across the country. The federal government faced a significant setback in its efforts to curb the spread of the virus when the Supreme Court rejected a vaccine-or-testing mandate for private employers that would have affected more than 80 million workers. But the court allowed a more limited mandate that requires health care workers at facilities that receive federal money to be vaccinated.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/17/world/omicron-covid-vaccine-tests/just-over-a-third-of-americans-think-the-us-pandemic-response-is-going-well-a-new-poll-says
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They have throughout my lifetime anyway. Most importantly to them, they want no inconvenience. None, zip, nada. Ask huge numbers of them to wear a goddamn mask or not go somewhere until they're vaccinated and they flip out screaming tyranny!!!! Sorry, my soft, comfortable, fellow Americans, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS! IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK LIKE THAT! If you want the pandemic to improve, YOU, that's right YOU have got to do the things necessary to make that happen, even if it's a little or a lot inconvenient. Fucking whiners. 
to own the libs.
