I admit that this surprises me. All I hear is gloom and doom so the fact that 81% of people who are vaxed are very or mostly satisfied with the vaccines is something of a shock. That over 60% are mostly or very satisfied that they’ve been allowed to return to something like normal is even more shocking. If you watch cable news or look at social media you’d think the whole country was about to explode with frustration at how their lives are hardly worth living in these conditions.
And how about this?
Two new Biden administration initiatives — mailing at-home COVID-19 tests to those who ask and making free N95 masks available — are hugely popular, each backed by 84% of Americans in the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
What? The Biden administartion did something right? How can that be?
Of course, the poll also found that those who are unvaccinated are less likely to use masks or take tests so it doesn’t solve that problem. But I doubt anyone thought it did.
This is interesting:
13% of U.S. adults in our latest survey either said they tested positive for, or believe they got, the virus in the past month. That’s important because it’s about twice the share in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, says Ipsos pollster and senior vice president Chris Jackson.
I’m skeptical that this number is correct because an awful lot of people get sick, don’t get tested and think they have COVID. On the other hand, plenty of people have done home testing recently and they aren’t counted in the numbers so it’s almost definitely higher than the official numbers.
Nobody is happy with this pandemic dragging on. It’s horrifying that so many people are still dying and so many others are getting sick. But whatever inconveniences we are experiencing have been hugely mitigated by the miracle of these vaccines and the treatments that are quickly coming down the pike. We are so very lucky to live in a time that made that possible and we should all be very grateful for that.