{"id":17135,"date":"2021-10-15T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/americans-more-pessimistic-life-will-ever-return-to-pre-pandemic-normal-after-brutal-summer-poll-finds\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:48:43","slug":"americans-more-pessimistic-life-will-ever-return-to-pre-pandemic-normal-after-brutal-summer-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/americans-more-pessimistic-life-will-ever-return-to-pre-pandemic-normal-after-brutal-summer-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans More Pessimistic Life Will Ever Return To Pre-Pandemic \u2018Normal\u2019 After Brutal Summer, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline Americans are less optimistic they can return to their \u201cnormal\u201d lives than they did earlier this year, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll, after a summer of new pandemic restrictions amid soaring Covid-19 infections, record-high deaths and overwhelmed hospitals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Americans are less optimistic about a return to &#8220;normal&#8221; life than summer, poll finds. Getty Images Key Facts Three in 10 Americans think it will take more than a year for life to get back to pre-pandemic \u201cnormal,\u201d according to the Axios-Ipsos poll of 1,015 Americans conducted between October 8-11.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s more than triple the proportion when the question was polled in June, where just 9% thought it would take more than a year for life to get back to normal.\u00a0 Other metrics display a similar, though less dramatic, drop in optimism and a shift towards longer timescales by which people think life will return to normal. 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