🤔🦠 Americans Get Bumbye Feelings ‘Bout Going Back to “Normal” Aftah Covid-19, New Poll Show 📊🌎
T’ree years aftah Covid-19 pandemic wen start, da kine views of da Americans ’bout da impact stay kinda stuck in one complicated mix of feelings, da recent polling suggest. Get choke people no tink da pandemic pau already, but most of ’em say dea life wen come back mostly – if no all – to normal. 🔄😷
Da US Senate wen pass one bill last week fo’ end da national Covid-19 emergency wea wen start in March 2020. Da US House wen approve da measure befo’ dis year, and da White House say President Joe Biden goin’ sign ’em even if he “strongly” no like da bill. Da administration wen plan already fo’ wind down da emergency by May 11. 🇺🇸🚨
In one recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey ’bout da Biden administration’s original plan fo’ end da public health emergency by May, 59% of Americans say dey tink da decision no goin’ get any impact on ’em or dea family. Da rest stay kinda 50/50 wit 20% who tink it would get positive effect and 21% who tink da impact would be negative. 📝🤷
Only 24% of Americans personally feel dat da pandemic stay pau, one recent Monmouth University poll wen find. Wit 20% saying it goin’ end bumbye and 53% saying it no goin’ evah end. Da kine numbers stay pretty similar to da Monmouth’s polling last fall, suggesting dat one kine lingering not-normal feeling stay da new normal. 📈🌏
No mo’ plenny Americans who say dea life wen come back completely to pre-pandemic normal or dat dea life stay still all messed up by it. Da Monmouth poll wen find 69% majority sayin’ dea daily routine stay mostly back to how it wen be pre-pandemic – but only ’bout one t’ird, 34%, say t’ings stay all da same like how it wen be t’ree years ago. Anoda 20% say t’ings stay partially back to normal, and 11% say dey no stay normal at all. 📅🔙
Fo’ tell da pollsters dat da pandemic stay pau, dat might be one political statement fo’ da everyday Americans too. Republicans stay 17 points mo’ likely den da Democrats fo’ say dat dea own routines stay mostly back to normal, da Monmouth poll wen find, and 28 points mo’ likely fo’ say da pandemic wen end completely. 🐘🔵
Da results of da Monmouth survey stay like one February Gallup poll wea wen find 33% of Americans sayin’ dea life stay all back to pre-pandemic normal, 20% sayin’ dey expect it goin’ come back to normal eventually, and almost half sayin’ dea life no goin’ evah come back to da way it stay befo’ da pandemic. Gallup wen find dat da views ’bout da pandemic’s future stay almost da same from dea polling in October, wea 31% t’ought normalcy wen come back all da way. 📊🤔
“Da 47% who no see one return to normalcy might be gettin’ used to one ‘new normal’ dat, fo’ some, mean sometimes wear mask, take Covid-19 vaccines regularly, and stay away from some situations wea might put ’em in mo’ high risk fo’ infection, especially wen Covid-19 cases stay going up,” Gallup’s Megan Brenan wen write. ✍️😷💉
’bout half of da Americans, 48%, still wear mask in public at least some of da time, da Monmouth poll wen find, but only ’bout 21% said dey do ’em most or all da time. In da KFF polling from befo’ dis year, 46% of Americans said dey wen take some kine precautions – like wear mask or no go big gatherings, no travel, or no eat inside restaurants – during da winter cuz of da news ’bout Covid-19, da flu, and RSV. 🎭🚫🍽️
In da latest KFF poll, just ova half of da American public said dey wen get boosted against Covid-19, but only 23% wen report getting da latest bivalent version of da booster vaccine. 💉📊
Fo’ da bigger society level, in one CNN poll last fall, mo’ den 6 in 10 Americans said dey believe da pandemic wen permanently change choke kine stuff in da American landscape, like healthcare (66%), education (63%), da economy (61%), and how most people do dea jobs (69%). 🏥🏫💰💼
But, even dough da public see da pandemic’s effects stay far-reaching and ongoing, dey no tink ’bout ’em all da time. In one Quinnipiac University survey wea wen come out last week, less den 1% of Americans wen pick Covid-19 as “da most urgent issue facing da country.” 🗳️🇺🇸
So, da kine views of da Americans stay all mixed up, but one ting stay clear: peopo stay finding ways fo’ adapt and move forward aftah Covid-19, even if it means accepting one new kine normal. 🚶♂️🌈🤙
NOW IN ENGLISH
Americans Still Adjusting to “New Normal” After Covid-19, Polls Show 🤔📊
Three years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans’ views on the disease’s impact have settled into a complex set of mixed feelings, recent polling suggests. Few believe that the pandemic has ended, but most say their lives have mostly, if not entirely, returned to normal. 😷🔄
The US Senate passed a bill last week that would end the national Covid-19 emergency declared in March 2020. The US House approved the measure earlier this year, and the White House has said President Joe Biden will sign it despite “strongly” opposing the bill. The administration had already planned to wind down the emergency by May 11. 🏛️📝
In a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey about the Biden administration’s original plan to end the public health emergency by May, 59% of Americans said they expected the decision to have no impact on them or their family. The remainder was evenly split between the 20% who thought it would have a positive effect and the 21% who thought the impact would be negative. 📈📉
Only 24% of Americans personally feel that the pandemic is over, a recent Monmouth University poll found, with 20% saying it will end eventually and 53% saying that it’ll never be over. Those numbers were very similar to Monmouth’s polling last fall, suggesting that a sense of lingering abnormalcy may well be the new normal. 🤷🗓️
Relatively few Americans say either that their lives have completely returned to a pre-pandemic normal or that their lives are still completely upended by it. The Monmouth poll found a 69% majority saying that their daily routine was at least mostly back to what it was pre-pandemic – but only about a third, 34%, say that things were completely the same as they were three years ago. Another 20% said things were partially back to normal, and 11% that they were still not normal at all. 🏠🌐
Declaring to pollsters that the pandemic is over may be something of a political statement for ordinary Americans as well. Republicans were 17 points likelier than Democrats to say that their own routines were mostly back to normal, the Monmouth poll found, and 28 points likelier to say that the pandemic had completely ended. 🐘🐴
The results of the Monmouth survey echo a February Gallup poll that found 33% of Americans saying that their life was completely back to pre-pandemic normal, 20% saying that they expected it would eventually return to normal, and nearly half that their life would never fully return to the way it was pre-pandemic. Gallup also found that views about the pandemic’s trajectory were nearly unchanged from their polling in October when 31% thought normalcy had completely returned. 📅🔄
“The 47% who don’t foresee a return to normalcy may be getting used to a ‘new normal’ that, for some, means occasional mask use, regular COVID-19 vaccines, and avoidance of some situations that may put them at greater risk of infection, particularly at times when COVID-19 infections are spiking,” Gallup’s Megan Brenan wrote. 😷💉🚫
About half of Americans, 48%, are continuing to wear masks in public on at least some occasions, the Monmouth poll found, though only about 21% said they do so most or all of the time. In KFF polling from earlier this year, 46% of Americans said they’d taken some form of precautions – including mask-wearing
