While COVID-19 cases have ticked up in some places, it appears most Americans are done worrying about COVID-19 as the holiday season is upon us.
That’s one of the takeaways from an Ipsos poll that shows 65% see no, or just a small, risk in returning to family gatherings, going to restaurants and doing other things they did in the days before we heard the term “social distancing.”
In fact, 46% report their lives are already back to normal.
The nationwide survey also revealed 57% are still concerned about COVID — the lowest percentage since the pandemic began; 27% of those who said they’re still concerned about COVID are mostly just concerned they’d give it to a loved one.
Eleven percent said they’re not the least bit concerned about contracting COVID.
Fifty percent of those polled say they’ve either proven they had, or assumed they had, COVID at some point during the pandemic.
Two in three of those who had COVID say they were fully vaccinated.
Eighty-five percent of respondents say we’ll never be rid of COVID-19 in their lifetimes, and 88% say the pandemic changed their lives forever.
However, 82% report the country is in a better place than it was a year ago when it comes to the pandemic.