Overwhelming Majority Oppose New Mandates and Restrictions to Address Omicron Variant

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Overwhelming Majority Oppose New Mandates and Restrictions to Address Omicron Variant

(Austin, TX—December 15, 2021) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted December 4th through December 7th of over 1,000 likely 2022 election voters.

“Unlike government health officials in Washington, DC, Americans have already figured out that mandates and lockdowns are not the way we will beat the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action. “As we’ve seen in our polls repeatedly, the American people are tired of all this and ready to get on with their lives. The U.S. Senate finally recognized this reality this week with the bi-partisan passage of the bill to block President Biden’s illegal vaccine mandate, and we’re going to see more of this as we get closer to 2022 and elected officials fight to save their jobs.”

For complete details on the poll, including graphics, please click here.

KEY INSIGHT: Majority of Americans Say New Mandates and Restrictions are Not Necessary to Deal with Omicron:

69.4 percent of Americans say no new mandates or restrictions are required for the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

31.1 percent say Omicron is not a serious health risk and increased mandates and restrictions are not needed.
38.3 percent Americans say regardless of risk from Omicron, increased mandates and restrictions are not needed.

30.6 percent of American voters say Omicron is a serious health risk that warrants stricter mandates and restrictions.

KEY INSIGHT: Bipartisan Opposition to News Mandates or Restrictions:

67 percent of Independent voters say new mandates are not necessary.

18.4 percent say Omicron not a serious risk and no new mandates needed
48.6 percent say regardless of risk from Omicron no new mandates needed
33.1 percent say serious risk from Omicron and stricter mandates needed

86.5 percent of Republican voters say new mandates are not necessary.

50.3 percent say Omicron not a serious risk and no new mandates needed
36.2 percent say regardless of risk from Omicron no new mandates needed
13.4 percent say serious risk from Omicron and stricter mandates needed

54.5 percent of Democrats voters say new mandates are not necessary.

21.4 percent say Omicron not a serious risk and no new mandates needed
33.1 percent say regardless of risk from Omicron no new mandates needed
45.5 percent say serious risk from Omicron and stricter mandates needed

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About Convention of States Action—Boasting a grassroots network of over 5 million supporters and volunteers, Convention of States’ mission is to restore a culture of self-governance in America and to curtail federal overreach. Its primary focus in accomplishing this mission is using a limited Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments that impose limitations on the size and scope of the federal government, including a balanced budget requirement and term limits for federal officials.

Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare.

As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D.

Family Physician Newport Beach, CA

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