40% of Brits want face masks forever. What is happening?
Last month, prominent member of SAGE, the UK's health advisory board, and well-known former Communist Party member, Susan Michie caused a stir (at least among skeptics) by suggesting that mask wearing and social distancing should become part of our "normal" routine behavior and staying in place "forever". Unfortunately, his point of view is not as marginal as sane people, in the UK or elsewhere, might think.
A new survey by Ipsos MORI for the Economist suggests that a high percentage of Brits believe a number of lockdown-related restrictions should remain in effect "permanently", including night curfew (19%), travel quarantine (35%) ) and face masks (a whopping 40%!). Well over 40% of Brits also believe that only those who have been vaccinated against Covid – and are able to prove it – should be able to travel abroad ("permanently"). The others in jail!
NEW: @ipsosmori polling for The Economist shows some Brits support anti-covid restrictions * permanently *, regardless of covid risk. Inc:
– 19% for nighttime curfews
– 26% for closing casinos and clubs
– 35% for travel quarantine
– 40% for masks https://t.co/bcYpSbCFNB pic.twitter.com/I7K3fEn2YC– Matthew Holehouse (@mattholehouse) July 8, 2021
Matthew Holehouse, British policy correspondent at The Economist, says this could be an anomalous result because we are experiencing "a very strange time for public opinion": "Some people have a hard time distinguishing how they feel now from how you feel. once the covid is gone? " In any case, the results are alarming. People let themselves be influenced so easily that, in the end, it only takes a couple of dudes on TV saying "Trust" to be able to change behaviors that seemed established. Have we really become so used to freedom that we don't care about it anymore?
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