Commentary
The polls on coercive Covid responses were never entirely trustworthy, not even from the beginnings of lockdowns. This happens when everyone knows what they are supposed to believe and say. The polled don’t really trust the voice on the other end. After weeks of disease panic and media figures screaming that everyone should stay home, mask up, fire up their laptops, order Amazon, and fork over for a Netflix subscription—because this is the only way to deal with a pandemic—people knew exactly what to say when asked.
Surely more people went along with the lockdowns, masks, closures, and mandates than would have been predicted in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Europeans were on the streets far more than Americans. And it took the moral courage and activism of Canadian truckers to instantiate the rebellion against Covidian control in North America.