Has the time already come to draw conclusions on the management of the health crisis? Impossible to answer this question, so much the future is subjected to multiple factors: the appearance and the penetration of new variants, the solidity of the vaccine coverage, the release of French people exhausted by months lived at the rate of the virus…
As summer approaches, the epidemic is running out of steam, but it is not over. However, after a first half still marked by restrictive measures, France is once again having a taste of “life before”, with the reopening, since Wednesday May 19, of “terraces” and numerous shops and restaurants. the delay of the start of the curfew to 9 p.m.
This renewed optimism is perceptible in the mood of opinion scrutinized for months by the Center for Political Research of Sciences Po (Cevipof), which has worked in particular with the OpinionWay institute. In February, after a year of pandemic, The world had already published the results of this “Barometer of political confidence”. At the foot of the third wave, weariness and gloom had spread to all strata of society.
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Three months later, these two feelings are still very present among the French surveyed, but in decline (- 1 and – 7), while confidence, serenity and well-being are on the rise (+ 6). An unprecedented fact since the 2020 end-of-year celebrations.
“With the easing of constraints and the development of the vaccination campaign, there is an injection of confidence. But this is not enough to stem a more structural pessimism about the state of the country, tempers Bruno Cautrès, political scientist at Cevipof and specialist in the analysis of behavior and political attitudes. The mood of the country is still uneasy. “
This wind of optimism has one main cause: vaccination. The keys to a possible way out of the crisis and possible long-term weapons against the virus, vaccines are increasingly approved by the French; 65% of the panel said they wanted to be vaccinated or had already received a dose (+ 16%). The increase in convinced individuals is explained first of all by a logical fact: the greater proportion of people immunized by one of the vaccines (+ 27%), while France has crossed, according to figures released Thursday evening, the threshold of 21.6 million people who received the first dose.
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