Half the Population Think Masks Should be Mandatory on Public Transport and a Fifth Want a Lockdown Right Now
New polling has found that around a fifth of the British public would back the return of Covid measures with 45% saying masks should be mandatory on public transport. GB News has more.
Research from campaign group More In Common polled 2,033 people between November 30th and December 4th asking about if they would back some form of Covid measures.
The question asked was “Currently, there are no legal COVID-19 restrictions in place in the U.K. Thinking of the current health situation in the U.K., would you support or oppose the Government re-introducing each of the following COVID-19 restrictions at the current time?”
Polling revealed 45% supported, with 16% saying they strongly supported, having to wear face masks on public transport, with 8% strongly supporting the Rule of Six, limiting the amount of people who can meet outside.
According to the poll, millennials (aged 25-40) are the most likely to back restrictions with a third of millennials backing closing night clubs, and three in 10 backing re-introducing the Rule of Six.
Gen Z (aged 18-24) were more supportive to the closing of nightclubs than Gen X (aged 41-55) and Baby Boomers (aged 56-74). 31% of Gen Z supported closing nightclubs, with 27% for both Gen X and Baby Boomers,
The Silent Generation (aged 75+) were the least supportive on restrictions on meeting in groups more than six, with just 18% supporting and 78% opposing it.
Closing of restaurants and pubs was supported by 25% of both Gen Z and Millennials. This is compared to 17% for Baby Boomers and just 12% for the Silent Generation.
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It’s a safe bet that everyone who believes that masks ought to be mandated on public transport will be wearing one there. Judging from totally unprofessional sampling of one or two monthly train journeys to London and back, that’s certainly less than 1%. OTOH, what’s to be expected from a ‘poll’ which already contradicts itself in the headline — mandatory masking anywhere is a corona measure, hence, if 45% are in support of that, the number of people in favour of re-introducing Corona measures cannot be only 20%.
Another exercise in He who tunes the piper paid the call.
Indeed. I do a few more train and tube journeys than you and my unprofessional sample agrees with yours.
Therefore, mask mandating aligns perfectly with enormously greater use of masks and vice versa – this cannot be in dispute. If, as also has been demonstrated through comparison between US states that mask-mandated and those that did not, the public wearing of masks does not lead to a reduction in deaths (even just from Covid), then putting 2 and 2 together this means that public mandates do not lead to any better health outcomes.
Yes I travel to London once/twice a month and concur. Also have you noticed that on the very rare occasions someone is wearing a mask more often than not if they are with another person that other person is not wearing a mask? Very odd on both counts I find.
I also think that the mismatch between people saying “masks should be mandatory” and people who actually wear them now is because what some people crave is rules being imposed on others as well as on them. They don’t want to wear a mask unless other people are also forced to. I simply don’t understand this mentality, and I don’t want to be on the same planet as people who think like that.
Maybe. But I simply don’t want to speculate about ways these number could make sense. Facts of the situation are:
Because of this, I consider this poll mask marketing by a coalition of people who’d like to sell them and of people who’d love nothing better than – step by step – going back into full pandemic hysteria mode, preferably quickly enough for a Christmas lockdown (Lots of indoor mixing of people! Bad! Bad! Bad!) which can then be drawn out into mid summer using this or that pretext and reintroduced once the so-called new flu year starts in October.
Sorry, having trouble understanding; you say you consider this poll mask marketing… but you don’t say what you consider it to be.
Surely RW means that the poll is part of mask-marketing. They could be right. Always follow the money.
Yes. IMHO, this is the so-far latest round of the Mask mandates and other Corona measures should really be reintroduced! flare-ups which have been occurring in irregular intervals ever since the WHO COVID special envoy declared that the gravest consequences for the UK and the world at a large would manifest themselves within a fortnight or less should the mask mandate really be lifted in January 2022(!).
Almost two years later, we’re still anxious to learn what these gravest consequences will eventually turn out to be. But it’s better to be proactive about that, so, let’s have a renewed mask mandate now!
[sarcasm]
Introduced (mandated) on public transport. That’s dictator Khan to a tee! Any excuse to impose idiotic and evidenceless restrictions on people.
Yep. In the last two weeks I have done a fair bit of long distance travel, trains and planes. Total number of masks seen: SEVEN.
The poll is BS. Total BS. People have completely “moved on”, they don’t want masks.
However, I do see that there will also, forever, be lots of people who yearn for the “safety” of rules set by authority and the “freedom” of not having to think, decide and act for themselves.
The ignorance of the great British public never fails to amaze.
We have retards still testing in the office and sending teams photos of red lines indicating the terrifying Rona. ‘Will be off today, not feeling too bad, but the missus is near death’. Sobbing I hope you survive messages appear instantaneously in the teams chat.
My response is usually sthg like, ‘chicken entrails are more accurate than that shyte, and the bonus is you can cook and eat them after doing your fake astrology’
40-50% of the pop are simply morons.
Plus its desire to be seen as “good” “responsible” citizens and follow orders and be “safe”.
And here of course is proof positive of the brainwashing machine having done its damage: The age-cohort MORE vulnerable to Covid-19 and for that matter all respiratory viruses are the LEAST likely to back restrictions or mask-wearing mandates? And in combination with the fact that older generations are not as affected by lockdowns since many more are retirement age, highlights this poll result (assuming reliability) as a demonstration of the perverse thinking the agencies, quangos and all the spin doctors have brought upon the public during the pandemic.
And the brainwashing and feeble mindedness of the young. Democracy will be dead because the next generation don’t know what it is.
Worse than that Ron, they’ve been told that to want democratic freedom makes you criminally dangerous.
I’ve been mulling over the spate of vampire and zombie films, books, tv shows of the last decade or two.
My initial thoughts were that they were PC enemies (can’t have old fashioned baddies anymore) but now I think that the Gen X Y Z have watched them all and think that zombies are real (predictive programming) and coming soon to their neighbourhood so they are already half there (see polling above) and might be more so depending on how the medical interventions play out over the next few years.
In addition being a sick vampire is somehow attractive (eg. the phase of “goth” fashion as an example? TB sufferers were “interestingly pale” and attractive in a helpless way in Victorian times).
Apart from the likelihood that the organisation doing the poll is being opportunistic, it tends to suggest that education has gone down the pan, at least with invalid beliefs that certain things work, in certain age groups. Those promoting such things should be ashamed of themselves.
One should never underestimate the power of propaganda.
It’s only a sample of 2000 people, for crying out loud. And who did they survey? The Transtifa mob and the Tea-towel terrorist Jew-haters? Absolutely nobody’s wearing them around my way. Also, a mask mandate on public transport is 100% illogical in and of itself, purely because the psychologically damaged freaktards, who are scared of their own shadows let alone catching a cold, would wear one anyway, such is their paranoia and f*cked up mental health status. It wouldn’t need to be mandatory for these virus-obsessed hypochondriacs.
And if those ignoramuses are wearing a face muzzle then it matters not whether anyone else around them is wearing one or not, but since when does applying logic matter? Show me a moronic masktard who isn’t multi-jabbed, for instance. As the Americans say; ”You do you”. People need to just stay in their own lane and out of everybody else’s business and personal choices. Just like you wouldn’t sneeze on someone else, don’t be inflicting your irrational neurosis on other people. It’s rude.
Reminds my of Edwina Currie all jabbed up saying how if you’re not jabbed “I don’t want you sat next to me on a Train”. A mate of mine likes playing devils advocate after playing a video of her saying that, and he said she did nothing wrong, she just said i don’t want YOU next to me and just kept repeating it. Some people just don’t get it.
Well that’s it. These imbeciles and bigots are walking contradictions and are completely devoid of any self-awareness. I mean, when will the penny drop that if your 10 previous ”highly effective” death jabs do what they say on the tin then you wouldn’t need to parade around like a tw@t with a fanny pad/bra cup/jock strap attached to your mush? Stark raving bloody bonkers!
I sincerely hope I don’t see any of these nobheads over here as I can’t be doing with experiencing ‘mask rage’ for four winters in a row. My adrenals can’t take any more. 🙁
Isn’t she the old lady who bankrupted quite a few farmers, on account of what she said when in Government? Along the lines of what one could catch when eating eggs!
Yes. She and chickens share one thing in common – brain size.
If the jib-jab stops transmission and prevents disease, and if the Egg Currie is jabbed up, it wouldn’t matter whether ‘you’ were jabbed or not, her jibby-jab would protect her from ‘you’ and ‘you’ from her.
So she clearly is an ignorant idiot.
😂 .
I think she believes the ‘science’ !
Obviously deranged. Shagged JM too! Eeeeeew!
… the Transtifa mob and the Tea-towel terrorist Jew-haters …
Ach ja …
With a towel on my head
And on my face an undy
From the muffle miffle to the muffle mea
Muffle muffle muffle muffle free!
Always great when things get put into perspective.
🙂
This is a great summary, courtesy Ivor Cummins
https://youtu.be/Iq2TZPEWjcA?si=fTb7eqJIyEFAgp5J
Another “poll”, another attempt to form public opinion.
Another “poll” which has nothing to do with what people actually think.
Yes there are fools and nasties.
But this “poll” is BS.
Totally agree, first select your population group to survey, next, select the questions to be asked, and finally, select the criteria of assessment for presentation. Publish results in the media. Job done. More BS presented as fact.
I think I’ll set up a poll to find out whether people believe the results of these stupid polls…
Look on the bright side. Four fifths would not back the return of Covid ‘measures’.
Yes I think that’s pretty good going, after all according to ‘Mind’ (no doubt as a result of the usual rigged surveys, but still);
1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England
There was a flurry of mask wearing hereabouts in about Aug/Sept, but the numbers have dropped off lately (probably because it seems to have been raining constantly since then). That said, saw a masked-up cashier in the supermarket yesterday: the mask was visibly wet so she’d probably been wearing it for her entire shift. Unsurprisingly she seemed quite wheezy. I wonder why.
never fails to amaze me seeing masked people. Like, there’d be a group of people walking outside with just one wearing a mask.
And when speaking, he/she would lift the mask as it’s obviously a hindrance. What’s gong on in the minds of those individuals?
Like, after two years they’d probably came across multiple old and new studies proving that these cloth masks do absolutely nothing. They saw it with their own eyes
when England having the earliest freedom day anyway had less covid cases than Scotland and Wales. they saw US states with less restrictions doing better than the ones with more.
They saw that the ‘safe and effective’ doesn’t make one protected from catching covid at all. SO their common sense and reason and innate BS-o-meter are screaming at them and they’d be like, oh, f..ck it, I think my brain
is wrong and the BBC is right. How can the BBC be wrong?
you never know what these people who voluntarily parted with their logic will do next…
The wording of these articles, spread across MSM, taken as the highlight of a poll of 2000 plus, smells entirely of Govt nudge policy. The bottom line is that 80% want no significant part of any of this rubbish again so headlines attempting to frame a minority position into a bold ‘shock’ headline statement of ‘so many’ want these policies again is disingenuous and rather cynical
If we haven’t figured out yet what is being done to British society then we have an awful lot of catching up to do.
Disappointed to see such sensationalist rubbish being given a platform on DS without much focus on the numbers that would not support these policies in any way, shape or form.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-ReEb0NxE
A campaign group so we can certainly take notice of the tripe they inevitably turn out.
From their website: “Through our public opinion research and ground-breaking segmentation model, we work with organisations and institutions across the country to turn our insights into impact – and contribute to strengthening social cohesion in the UK. Through our research, partnerships and consultancy, we seek to make progress on countering division and building common ground. “
Ah…. A ‘segmentation’ model – not just any old model.
Well I’m sold.
Judging from a rather cursory look at their web site, an important focus of their work seems to be coming up with ‘innovative’ strategies for climate change marketing in the face of ‘slowing’ public support for that.
So ridiculous!
I’ve seen two people wearing masks over the past month. One paranoid muslim looking woman in the street and a Waitrose supermarket checkout woman.
This poll is BS.
So wear them if you want to, why do they have to be mandatory?
Given how many sat at home on near full pay, of course they’d like to return to masking and lockdowns, even though they have been proved to be the wrong measures to take, and it’s not suprising the “younger” generation want it more, brainwashing at it’s finest!., as for the “poll”, how can that little a “sample”, be relevant to anything?.
The one fifth are the skivers who pretend to work from home but love shopping instead.
Yet another pointless discussion about the state of our nation and a reflection of how easily the chattering classes who call themselves sceptics are distracted from the fact that the powers that be, who believe they know best, despise the general public and are doing whatever they can to take away any vestiges of freedom and democracy we thought we had.
Proof positive of old maxim : if you imagine how stupid the average person is, then consider that half the population are more stupid than that….
If you want to wear useless masks and lock yourself down in your locked bedroom then go ahead but don’t drag others into your unhealthy obsession. Same goes for Net Zero.
An example of how to influence the outcome by the way the question is framed. “Thinking of the current health situation in the UK” puts a negative connotation into the question and some people sampled might even think there’s a health issue going on they’re not aware of.
It would be quite possible to reframe the wording of this poll and get a very different outcome.
Start the poll with “Deaths from Covid are now negligible. With that in mind would you support the re-introduction of the following measures….? and see what the response is.
Would be interesting to see the poll result for the question: “Considering no quality evidence for masks preventing virus transmission exists, and significant harms from masking are known, would you support the re-introduction of mandatory mask wearing?”
Can the Cochrane report please be made mandatory to read. Even Jennie Harries in her testimony to the covid inquiry said that evidence on the effectiveness of face coverings was still “uncertain” (it always has been). To me, ‘uncertain’ is a confidence score considerably less than 50% (if you want it on a % scale), so nowhere near even adequate enough to mandate them. People then quote the ‘precautionary principle’, but that actually works against masking as the known physical & psychological harms have a much greater confidence score.
Johnboy12 is spot on. 80% couldn’t care less. it was conducted by foundation set up after the murder of Jo Cox by an unhinged Jakey who read some right wing online content. It led to Cox’s sanctification as the embodiment of good politics. No similar sainthood for David Ames’s or reflection that he was murdered by an Islamic loon.Cox’s murder is often commemorated as a warning about the rise of the right and studiously avoids the forms of extremism we should be most concerned about. The way this has been reported shows it’s part of the covert trusted information racket. The sampling is suspect and the fact is that polling companies don’t like to disappoint their clients. It’s obvious nobody apart from a few lazy arsed millennials and a group of perma-neurotics give a shit about Covid. Let these f88wits lock themselves away now.