30.00% - To protect yourself from unknowns is to live your life in a constant state of paranoia.
27.50% - Time to party.
22.50% - The COVID vaccines are safe and they work — conservatives who trusted flu shots but drew the line at mRNA technology ignored solid data.
20.00% - COVID is endemic now — treating it as an ongoing crisis in 2023 and beyond is either scientific illiteracy or a political decision to hold onto emergency powers.
The honest answer about COVID-19 variants was uncertain; dropping precautions because of that uncertainty was reckless.
50.00% - We still don’t have conclusive data or at least enough of it over a long period of time that confirms the vaccinated adults can’t shed the virus and transmit it to the unvaccinated children. The adults and kids a should continue to wear masks.
10.00% - COVID is endemic now — treating it as an ongoing crisis in 2023 and beyond is either scientific illiteracy or a political decision to hold onto emergency powers.
10.00% - COVID-19 is not a “new” pathogen at this point.
33.33% - The threat of COVID-19 variants is unknown.
33.33% - The honest answer about COVID-19 variants was uncertain; dropping precautions because of that uncertainty was reckless.
33.33% - The risk posed by future COVID-19 variants is fundamentally uncertain.
50.00% - Variants of SARS-CoV-2