Perspectives? Quotes, actual numbers, and the multitude of hot takes from those in here w/ obvious political leanings (just follow my men
@Sandbar for some delicious, hot fresh takes!) aren't opinions or perspectives, those are what we'd call...
facts & reality in case you weren't aware.
What do you make of the fact that republicans in every state of the union polled by
fox news no less, that Republicans didn't take this anywhere near as seriously as Democrats. You wouldn't suppose the news media outlet sources for each party would have anything to do with that or reflect upon their party's own opinions?!
"It's not the main point of my post yes, but aside from looking from within this forum and I'm not going to point out specific names of those that have downplayed CoV's severity relative to the collective opinion of this forum, in more broad terms, the evidence is pretty overwhelmingly in support of this view and by a pretty significant margin, in that more democrats have taken this virus more seriously much sooner than Republicans, trump's actions are perhaps an over exaggeration of this underlying theme, but it's very real imo.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-public-opinion.html
Just last week, 63% of Democrats and 49% of Republicans said they considered the coronavirus to be a personal threat; now 76% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans feel the same way."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...rious-threat-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN21C02T
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Even the heavily conservative fox news media outlet, continues to largely support this point.
"By a 14-point margin, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to think Americans are overreacting, and Republicans are less likely to have changed their life “a great deal” (-13), be worried about getting infected (-14), and be concerned about the virus spreading nationally (-7)."
You also find that more democrats were more worried sooner about the state of the economy in response to this crisis relative to republicans, again fox news poll...
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Admittedly, this political gap is closing and becoming indiscernible as the scope of the virus is blatantly obvious to nearly everyone now and both sides are taking it very seriously, but I don't think that takes away from the fact that republicans on a national level didn't take this as seriously as democrats did earlier on in the crisis, and while yes we have more pressing matters to attend to, this is a point worth revisiting in the aftermath of this virus."
If the shoe was on the other foot, and say Obama, Clinton, or Carter was in office, I think you'd find a much different tone across the board and this gap to be smaller or completely reversed out of political spite more than anything."
No, no, no you're right that's all just my "perspective", there's nothing to really see here!
Then you or another hard core righty on this forum would proceed to say something really short-sighted like "Well, ya know everyone was saying "_____" about the coronavirus over "insert very, very long period of time here" & check out this "insert copy & pasted quote(s) from some random democrat from a cherry picked article or blog linked
here" that said back in the year of yore that the virus wasn't a big deal (yet) to the US!. BAM! Trump you did it again! Libs owned!"