COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions and physical distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic have left more than half of Canadians feeling lonely or isolated, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News.“I think Blursday has set in,” Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos, said, referring to the term coined in 2020 as people struggled to keep track of what day of the week it was during lockdown periods.“Once you step outside of your household, that life has gone.
In fact, you can’t step outside of your household. And that experience, the inability to go to collective events, concerts, movie theatres, go out easily to mingle with your friends is something that people really are missing,” he told Global News.