Well, 2020 is officially half-done and (to put it very lightly so this post won’t run off tangent into a whole other topic) the world has seen better. During this SIP (shelter in place), I have been on the lookout for data studies and reports of long-term mental effects and public opinion of the trifecta of effects that have recently spawned (e.g. Covid-19 and the subsequential SIP, skyrocketing unemployment rates, and the #blacklivesmatter racial equality movement).
Of course, there is not much out there yet, but I found a spawling of data from the world’s happiness report hosted by Gallup. Here’s a bit of my findings..