In a Wall Street Journal article dated February1, 2022, "Still Feeling Pandemic Miserable? There Are Ways to Dig Out," Alex Janin takes a cogent look at the findings of the General Social Survey conducted by the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago: 24% of Americans reported that they were "not too happy" in life in 2021, up from 13% in 2018, and the share of those who said they were "very happy" declined to 19% from 31% over the same period.
As we move into the start of the third year of the COVID pandemic,