Some stay-at-home odds and ends from Twitter
A rally, the Texas Lt. Governor, and some polling
Here’s a rally you may have missed
“If you’re sick still come”. 😱 pic.twitter.com/Csn2KeRQSH
— Vote Dem for the Planet (@Brasilmagic) April 20, 2020
This made the rounds on Sunday and it apparently was for real. According to the Staten Island Advance, however, no one showed-up except for the police. (I wonder why?)
By the way, the Manchester Guardian has an excellent analysis of the anti-lockdown movement here.
The Texas lieutenant governor is back!
I previously wrote about Patrick here when he first talked about dying to save the economy.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick doubles down on argument that people should be put at risk for death in exchange for a strong economy amid COVID-19: "There are more important things than living." pic.twitter.com/WpeyIPmX6U
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) April 21, 2020
What does polling say about the stay-at-home orders?
Despite the attention that the media has given the protesters, Americans overwhelmingly support the stay-at-home orders.
There’s a new silent majority in America: the millions of people who have remained quietly withdrawn from public life in an effort to stem the nation’s coronavirus outbreak.
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) April 20, 2020
New HuffPost/YouGov poll finds continued, broad support for stay-at-home orders: https://t.co/cJsW3gkl9o pic.twitter.com/YdNSGW5OU0
Does your news source affect your beliefs? Or do your beliefs affect your choice of news source?
Choose your news...
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) April 21, 2020
Our latest NBC/WSJ poll finds profound differences in attitudes about the coronavirus based on where you get your news – broadcast TV, MSNBC/CNN, or Fox News https://t.co/pMhwoeOats pic.twitter.com/jf9cjSL40C
If you think about it, the poll results shouldn't surprise you. While we like to see ourselves as open-minded, there is a good deal of research that suggests that we likely choose our news sources to confirm our beliefs and biases. For example, given the poll results, guess what was Fox News' top story at noon?
Fox News's lead story at noon is promoting anti-stay-at-home protests pic.twitter.com/IBBW9wsk2A
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2020
