This is when Mansfield Chad readers think life will return to normal after the pandemic

Mansfield Chad 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, published on Mansfield Chad as well as 150 others across the UK last week, asked readers 25 questions about how the coronavirus crisis has shaped the lives, opinions and habits of people in Mansfield - 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 Mansfield answered.

Readers thought there would be greater funding for the NHS after the pandemic is over.Readers thought there would be greater funding for the NHS after the pandemic is over.
Readers thought there would be greater funding for the NHS after the pandemic is over.
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The majority of Mansfield Chad readers - 37.30% - said they thought it would take one to two years for everyday life to return to normal, with readers who thought this would happen in six or more years in the minority - 1.08%.

10.27% of readers were more optimistic and thought it would take three to five months, 30.27% thought it would take six to 12 months, 7.57% thought it would take three to five years and 10.81% thought there would not be a return to normality.

On a national level, 39.4% of respondents said they thought it would take one to two 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 in Doncaster said they thought there would be greater funding for the NHS – 57.84%.

Other likely outcomes were society placing greater value on key workers and communities coming closer together, which 49.73% and 37.30% of readers thought would happen respectively.

The least popular option was travel by foot and bicycle instead of by car, which just 20.54% of readers in Doncaster 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.

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