They may be "off" when it comes to the enforcement efforts, but when it comes to understanding the actual case and mortality rates, they are WAY off. For example, when polled they said they believed that nearly 9% of the U.S. population, or 30 million people, have died from COVID-19.

In reality, at the time the source video was done, the death count was at 155,000. They also overestimated the number of cases by a factor of 20. In Britain, people thought 5 million people had died from it when in fact fewer than 50,000 had died.

The ignorance of the real truths "are nothing short of stunning," according to Franklin Templeton, who conducted a similar study for Franklin Templeton-Gallup. For example, Americans believe people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%