Poll: Majority support new two-week national stay-at-home order

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A majority of U.S. adults supports a mandatory two-week shelter-at-home order nationwide to slow the spread of coronavirus, a new poll finds.

The NPR-Ipsos survey finds that 59 percent of respondents would back a national stay-at-home order, indicating that many Americans are willing to embrace drastic steps to help get the virus under control. Thirty-six percent would oppose such an order.

Fifty-five percent would support a ban on all travel between states, according to the poll, with 39 percent opposed.

Hundreds of public health experts have signed an open letter calling for a new nationwide shutdown, writing, "Shut it down now, and start over."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-majority-support-new-two-week-national-stay-at-home-order/ar-BB17yZb5?li=BBnb7Kz

[Progressive Jones]

1. I support this shut down. nt

[SoCalNative]

2. Unfortunately 2 weeks won't help

needs to be 6-8 to have any real effect.

[NightWatcher]

3. This

[crickets]

13. +1

[Turbineguy]

4. If we could just get more people

interested in behaving like members of a functioning society. It's though for trump supporters to do that.

[MichMan]

5. As long as it means everything shut down

No grocery stores, no mail, no UPS, no gas stations, no city or state workers, nothing.

Only police, fire, jails. and hospitals. That's it

Leave your own property under threat of arrest. The problem with the first shutdown was way too many exceptions.

[Doodley]

9. How are people going to eat with no grocery stores?

[MichMan]

11. Stock up ahead of time I guess.

That is why the first shutdown didn't work. Way too many places were called essential, and no one really stayed at home.

I guess 59 % of people favor a complete stay at home order as long as a bunch of others still have to work, so their lives aren't really inconvenienced all that much.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. My Guess

A minimum of 1/3rd of that 59% believes that they will still work, it won't mean them, and it won't affect them.
I may be cynical, but I don't believe 3 in 5 Americans will actually stay home for 2 weeks.
And as someone above said, 2 weeks isn't terribly useful.
But, a lot longer gets people edgy.
Rock:hard place.

[Timewas]

7. Never happen

Can't even get them to wear a silly little mask for a short while to go into a store or as in one case to vote..You will never get enough people to make a difference

[Doodley]

8. No point in a shutdown without getting the virus under control during that time period.

Need a united federal and state response to educate public to wear masks and keep distance - take the politics out, and more testing. That isn't going to happen.

[meadowlander]

10. Six weeks is the minimum

To effectively contain the virus. If you lock infected people with uninfected family members they will keep passing it on between them and still have it when theg come out again.

If Trump had done this in March, the US economy could have reopened safely two months ago.

[pamdamonia]

12. No way that will happen

The number of people who have died and continue to die doesn’t bother the president at all, i believe it’s what he wants to happen. We all need to show up and vote! This could be the last time we all get to vote, our democracy is in jeopardy!