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Government seem to want to encourage the public to become keener to exit the lockdown than public currently are.
Compare this description of today's Opinium poll, in news report on govt thinking, to the actual Opinium poll findings.
Tel report
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/26/boris-johnson-could-ease-lockdown-may-7-deadline/?utm_content=politics&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1587934959
Compare this description of today's Opinium poll, in news report on govt thinking, to the actual Opinium poll findings.
Tel report
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/26/boris-johnson-could-ease-lockdown-may-7-deadline/?utm_content=politics&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1587934959
Tel says "more than half of people wanting restaurants, offices, shopping centres and schools to reopen *as soon as* new infections decrease"
Reopen "once cases go down" @OpiniumResearch
Restaurants: 14%
Offices: 24%
Shopping centres: 18%
Schools: 33%
https://www.opinium.co.uk/public-opinion-on-coronavirus-21st-april/
Reopen "once cases go down" @OpiniumResearch
Restaurants: 14%
Offices: 24%
Shopping centres: 18%
Schools: 33%
https://www.opinium.co.uk/public-opinion-on-coronavirus-21st-april/
The public will (in principle) support a staggered exit from the lockdown, once it is safe to have a staggered exit. But "increasingly keen" is over-spinning quite a lot - given that three times as many people are worried about easing too fast as moving too slowly. (DeltaPoll)
Accurate IF said: the public is OPEN TO [NOT/increasingly supportive] a staggered exit from lockdown. More than half of people want restaurants, offices, shopping centres and schools to reopen [NOT/as soon as new infections decrease] "once cases drop AND monitoring is in place"
Perhaps not a million miles away from what is reported.
But this is factually mis-reporting the poll.
Especially as poll respondents were given a "when cases drop" option - so its clear a majority *didn't* back it "as soon as" cases drop, without further conditions.
But this is factually mis-reporting the poll.
Especially as poll respondents were given a "when cases drop" option - so its clear a majority *didn't* back it "as soon as" cases drop, without further conditions.
Accurate claim about attitudes: "Most of the public are CAUTIOUS about easing the lockdown too quickly, though most do favour a staggered exit once it is safe to do so"
Inaccurate claim: "Most of the public are INCREASINGLY KEEN to see the lockdown eased AS SOON AS cases drop"
Inaccurate claim: "Most of the public are INCREASINGLY KEEN to see the lockdown eased AS SOON AS cases drop"
Next debate NOT really how mostly framed: "Can govt respond to growing [public] itch/pressure to ease/end lockdown?"
Is real story cross-pressures?
Govt preference + public finances + business
vs
CAUTIOUS public
But media bias to itchiness (need for news) maybe inevitable
Is real story cross-pressures?
Govt preference + public finances + business
vs
CAUTIOUS public
But media bias to itchiness (need for news) maybe inevitable
