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2021-01-27
More Americans Than People in Other Advanced Economies Say COVID-19 Has Strengthened Religious Faith
During difficult times, many people often turn toward religion or faith to provide hope. According to Pew Research, as a result of the pandemic, no Western country with “advanced” economies report that the pandemic has had a net negative impact on religion and faith. In fact, all have a net increase on the reliance of religion and faith. Citizens in the United States, however, are much more likely to say the pandemic has strengthened their faith as opposed to citizens in other countries. While the pandemic has had a net positive for strengthening the faith of people, it has had an even higher positive result for strengthening familial bonds. Family bonds and religious faith has grown stronger for most during the pandemic. -
2020-04-30
"The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom" - The Atlantic Monthly
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated socioeconomic and political shock has created fertile grounds for the dissemination of conspiracy theories. In an article for the Atlantic Monthly, political scientists Joseph E. Uscinski and Adam M. Enders provide an overview of why conspiracy theories have developed and spread, and how they are being exacerbated by political polarization, groupthink, group identity, and misinformation. The authors also examine the different types of COVID-19 conspiracy theories, showing that certain kinds of conspiracy theories are associated with political identities and exacerbated by conspiratorial statements made by politicians. -
2020-05-11
COVID Protests
This is important to show that these protestors were not fighting for other peoples' rights to be equal, but to get haircuts and go to restaurants. -
2020-05-19
A Comic Video Telling an Irony Story of How COVID-19 Originated
It is a video of a collection of comic of how the US blames China for COVID-19 originating place. It is important for its irony and how public opinion leads during COVID-19.