Which Americans? All the ones I know IRL want them ended immediately, regardless of their political positions otherwise.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they give you a ton of information about the survey and analysis (here: https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...)
Along with crosstabs for each question here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u7j63YU7FSYsUXxvSMpH...
In the half sample, they asked about eight different kinds of businesses (Question 4a-4h) and with the exception of movie theatres (18%) and golf courses (41%), they were all in the 20s to 30s.
As for reopening with conditions, I don't know that there are concrete plans that would be easy to poll. I think you'd lose a lot of people if you had to describe a series of possible schemes in great detail.
The overall adult sample is weighted using a raking procedure to match the demographic makeup of the population by sex, region, age, education, race/ethnicity, marital status, and population density according to Census Bureau estimates.
— Jeff Bezos
Trusting your eyes over people with replication rates in the 20-50% range (ie, social scientists) is probably a rational choice.
There’s plenty of evidence that polls have systemic inaccuracies — question phrasing, people giving “right” answers, etc.
What I vaguely recall from stats is that even a small sample size that is really far off from the larger sample is statistically nearly impossible. This means something is amiss, so I defer to my lyin' eyes. I know my eyes, don't know the authors.
Life is suffering.
Which supports the point that the lockdowns do not need to be in place because people can take care of themselves.