This is when Shields Gazette readers think life will return to normal after the pandemic

Shields Gazette readers have had their say on when they think a sense of normality will return - and what the outcomes of the pandemic might be.
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Our lockdown survey asked readers 25 questions about how the coronavirus crisis has shaped the lives, opinions and habits of people in South Tyneside - and what they’d like to see happen in the coming weeks and months.

One of the questions in the survey focused on what comes next - asking readers when they think everyday life will return to some kind of normality.

Today we can reveal how readers in South Tyneside answered.

Gazette readers have expressed their views in our Lockdown Survey.Gazette readers have expressed their views in our Lockdown Survey.
Gazette readers have expressed their views in our Lockdown Survey.
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The majority of Gazette readers - 42% - said they thought it would take 1-2 years for everyday life to return to normal, while 30.14% said between six and 12 months.

Readers who thought this would happen in more than six years in the minority - 1.16%.

On a national level, 39.4% of respondents said they thought it would take 1-2 years for everyday life to return to normality, while 34.2% were more optimistic, saying it would take 6-12 months for this to happen.

Just 8.4% think this will happen in 3-5 months, and only a tiny percentage of respondents - 5.9% - think it’ll take between 3-5 years, while 8.54% said that they think things will not return to normal.

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When asked what they thought the likely outcomes of the coronavirus outbreak would be, the majority of readers (61.2%) said they thought greater funding for the NHS.

Other likely outcomes were society placing greater value on key workers (53.3%) and communities coming closer together (37.44%).

The least popular option was the country coming closer together, which just 20% of readers thought would be a likely outcome.

On a national level, a high number of respondents - 58.9% - think greater funding for the NHS will be a likely outcome, followed closely by society placing greater value on key workers, which 56.6% of respondents thought would happen post-pandemic.

The least popular option - “the country coming closer together” - was seen as a likely outcome by 18.8% of respondents.