{"id":36265,"date":"2020-11-12T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=36265"},"modified":"2020-11-12T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:33:48","slug":"great-news-half-of-americans-wont-comply-with-covidcon-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=36265","title":{"rendered":"Great News! Half of Americans WON&#8217;T Comply with the COVIDcon Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Less Than Half Of Americans Likely To Comply With New COVID Lockdown: Gallup<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Earlier we featured the worrisome prospect of a second national coronavirus lockdown under a future Biden administration, considering the latest scientist to join Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;special coronavirus transition advisory team&#8221; is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/biden-science-advisor-calls-4-6-week-lockdown-avoid-covid-hell\">calling for just that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=RqhElbwC\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=RqhElbwC\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=6IGKgahz 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=6IGKgahz 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=6IGKgahz 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=6IGKgahz 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=6IGKgahz 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/closures.png?itok=RqhElbwC 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/closures.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"157b9bf8-b6ce-49d6-b819-bb40546c6a0c\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Michael Osterholm,\u00a0who serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, now one of Biden&#8217;s coronavirus task force doctors\u00a0told\u00a0<em>Yahoo News\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zGuz\/status\/1326591680699641856\">the following on Wednesday<\/a>: &#8220;We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the lost wages for individual workers&#8230;\u00a0<strong>if we did that, then we could lockdown for 4 to 6 weeks<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But we know that&#8217;s unlikely to go well based on the latest polling data, as\u00a0<strong>it appears the majority of Americans would not conform<\/strong>\u00a0to such new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/coronavirus-covid-lockdowns-gallup-poll\/2020\/11\/12\/id\/996670\/\">stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Americans are less likely to comply with another coronavirus lockdown than they were in the spring, with\u00a0<strong>fewer than half saying in a new poll that they&#8217;re very likely to stay home this time around<\/strong>, according to a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/324146\/americans-less-amenable-covid-lockdown.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gallup Poll<\/a>\u00a0released as record numbers of cases\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/virus-outbreak-us-surge\/2020\/11\/11\/id\/996598\/\">skyrocket nationwide<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the data, according to Gallup, based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/coronavirus-pandemic-11-12-20-intl\/h_dfcb6d73fe1ab79c282fee500a5c5f6e\">poll taken between Oct.19 and Nov.1<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>49% say they&#8217;re &#8220;very likely&#8221; to stay home<\/strong>\u00a0for a month if mandated,\u00a0<strong>down from\u00a067% who said they would in the spring<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>18% said they were &#8220;somewhat likely&#8221; to comply.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One-third said they would be &#8220;unlikely&#8221; to comply with new lockdown orders.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This despite 61% saying they believe the situation is getting worse.<\/li>\n<li>The number of respondents who said they&#8217;d be unlikely to comply is\u00a0<strong>double the rate seen from polls in the spring<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, it appears more Americans are intentional about social distancing measures, including wearing masks, compared to in the spring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1326591680699641856&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmedical%2Fless-half-americans-likely-comply-new-covid-lockdown-gallup&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1326591680699641856\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/coronavirus-covid-lockdowns-gallup-poll\/2020\/11\/12\/id\/996670\/\"><em>Newsmax<\/em><\/a>\u00a0summarizes of the numbers:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Meanwhile, the number of people who are wearing masks\u00a0has gone up sharply.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/less-half-americans-likely-comply-new-covid-lockdown-gallup\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/less-half-americans-likely-comply-new-covid-lockdown-gallup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less Than Half Of Americans Likely To Comply With New COVID Lockdown: Gallup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}