Monday, September 13, 2021

Polls: Americans Support Vaccine Mandates

 

CNN/SSRS poll conducted before the Biden vaccine mandate announcement:

... More than half of Americans now say they support requiring vaccinations for office workers returning to the workplace (54%), students attending in-person classes (55%) and patrons attending sporting events or concerts (55%), although fewer (41%) support requiring vaccinations for a shopper to enter a grocery store.

Support for these mandates has risen across the board since April, growing 6 percentage points with regard to students, 8 points regarding office workers and event attendees, and 15 points regarding grocery shoppers.

But, once again, the cohort refusing to protect themselves and their fellow Americans is largely Republican:


 

A Politico/ Morning Consult poll shows a similar -- or even higher -- level of support for the President's mandate (click to enlarge):



Public health should never be a partisan issue, and it generally ceases to be one for an unvaccinated covidiot when they have to be intubated in an ICU bed (that should be occupied by, say, a cardiac patient who died because he couldn't find an ICU bed in 43 hospitals packed with unvaccinated covidiots).

Get. The. Damn. Vaccine.