I don’t have a view either way on sampling, but I do think “do you support a lockdown” is not a question that is answered truthfully. To not support a lockdown is heresy because it means putting at risk our ‘treasured’ NHS. It is to go against the parade of scientists that are presented in the media.
And yet when you stop focusing on responses to that question and instead look at how people behave, a different picture is painted. Well over 20% of the population were out and about in the run up to each lockdown apart from the first. A lot of those that support a lockdown actually mean a lockdown of the things they don’t personally do. Some people want them for ulterior motives. In short that 80% hides an awful lot of hypocrisy.
It’s the same as that statistic that kept getting quoted in the summer about how only 4% wanted to return to the old normal after the pandemic is over. That was seized upon by people who want a particular agenda of widescale systemic change but there would be no agreement among those 96% as to what changes they’d like.
And yet when you stop focusing on responses to that question and instead look at how people behave, a different picture is painted. Well over 20% of the population were out and about in the run up to each lockdown apart from the first. A lot of those that support a lockdown actually mean a lockdown of the things they don’t personally do. Some people want them for ulterior motives. In short that 80% hides an awful lot of hypocrisy.
It’s the same as that statistic that kept getting quoted in the summer about how only 4% wanted to return to the old normal after the pandemic is over. That was seized upon by people who want a particular agenda of widescale systemic change but there would be no agreement among those 96% as to what changes they’d like.