63% Say Border with Mexico Should Be Closed Over Flu!
Posted on Tuesday, May 05 @ 08:35:16 EDT
Topic: Diseases Biohazards illegal immigration
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 Rassmussen Reports
63% Say Border with Mexico Should Be Closed Until Swine Flu Is Under Control
Monday, May 04, 2009
Sixty-three percent (63%) of Americans
believe the border with Mexico should be closed until the swine flu
epidemic is under control, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Thirty percent (30%) say closing the border is not necessary.
Sentiment for closing the border with
Mexico, where swine flu reportedly first broke out, is high among all
age, income, employment and partisan groups.
Just over one-third of all Americans (37%) are
confident that the doctors in their community are adequately prepared
to handle a flu epidemic. Twenty-six percent (26%) do not believe local
doctors are ready for such an outbreak, and 37% are not sure.
These numbers are identical to findings last October and are largely unchanged from surveys the two previous years.
However, 75% of adults now are at least somewhat confident that public
health organizations get warnings to the public in a timely fashion
when epidemics strike. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are very confident.
Only 18% are not very confident of timely warnings, and another three percent (3%) are not at all confident.
The new findings come in a survey taken last Thursday and Friday
evening. Since then, the swine flu situation in Mexico appears to have
stabilized.
Last week, 65% of U.S. voters said they were personally concerned about
the threat of swine flu, including 20% who said they were Very
Concerned. Sixty-one percent (61%) also believed the media was
overhyping the outbreak of the disease.
The Mexican government has now scaled back the number of deaths
attributed to swine flu from 176 to 100, and some are suggesting that
the World Health Organization itself over-reacted to the flu outbreak.
Government employees (47%) are more confident than those in the private
sector (35%) that community doctors are prepared to deal with a flu
epidemic. A plurality of married adults (40%) agree, compared to 32% of
those who are not married.
The overall findings suggest that Americans are quite confident in
their government’s ability to warn them about epidemics. This again is
true across virtually all demographic lines.
The federal government has said closing the border with Mexico is not
necessary thus far to protect the U.S. population from swine flu.
Interestingly, when it comes to
illegal immigration and growing drug violence in Mexico, Americans by
sizable majorities feel the government is not doing enough to control
the border. But, unlike the swine flu findings, there is substantial
partisan disagreement on the border control issue.
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