Deacsfan27
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This thread has been a really productive place for discussion. Please try to keep the political stuff on the Tunnels.
It's objectively true that Republicans are less likely to not adhere to wearing masks/social distancing than Democrat voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/health/coronavirus-face-masks-surveys.html
Of those polled by Gallup, 75 percent of Democrats said they had worn a mask in public, while 58 percent of independents and less than half of Republicans said the same.
Democrats were far more likely to live in counties where the virus has sickened and killed more people, while Republicans were more likely to live in counties that have been relatively unscathed by the illness, though they were paying an economic price. This contributes to the conflicting partisan response to the pandemic, including how to reopen businesses and whether to take extra precautions to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Other research suggests the gap between Democrats and Republicans on mask use may be narrower. According to a Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape survey, 92 percent of Democrats said they had worn a mask compared with 79 percent of Republicans. Data was collected between March 19 and May 20.