Americans are much more worried about scaling back social distancing too early than too late
In a celebratory tweet, President Trump on Thursday announced that he would hold a news conference detailing his plan for scaling back social-distancing measures meant to contain the novel coronavirus that’s infected more than half a million Americans.
He’s been teasing the idea for weeks, tempering his endorsement of demands that Americans stay at home with insistences that people would soon be able to return to life as normal — or, at least, some semblance thereof.
The response from experts has been one of concern. Rescinding distancing efforts without establishing systems for tracking and containing outbreaks of the virus is seen as opening the door for a broad resurgence of the virus, just as new daily case totals are trending downward.
Even deferring to states on when to reopen, as reporting suggests Trump plans to do — and, frankly, as the situation would require, given that states are the ones that have introduced the measures — could be problematic. Such an announcement might signal that distancing isn’t as big a deal anymore to people in areas where it is.
New polling from Pew Research Center suggests that Americans are more likely to side with the experts than with Trump. By a 2-to-1 margin, they are more concerned that distancing measures will be rescinded too quickly than too slowly. There’s a partisan split on the question, but not as big as you might think. Among conservative Republicans, views are about split. Among moderate Republicans, a large majority is more worried about moving too quickly than too slowly.
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Thank you for reminding me. I'll use that more often. 