It is a poll that seems to confirm the executive in its choice to have decided the confinement from March 17 to May 11. According to Ifop, the French are much more worried about the health risk linked to the coronavirus than the economic risk generated by the spread of the disease.
Trust in the government to help businesses
They are also still 52% to trust the government to "help companies in difficulty because of the coronavirus", and 41% to trust it to "deal effectively" with the virus, according to this survey carried out from August 13 to 14 and published in Le Journal du Dimanche . They were 52% and 42% respectively in the last survey carried out at the end of May.
Asked about "what worries them the most", the French place first "the health risk on (their) health and that of (their) relatives" (53%), ahead of "the economic risk and in particular the consequences on employment ”for them and their relatives (29%), then“ the risk for public freedoms with the obligations to fight against the epidemic (compulsory wearing of the mask, restriction of access to certain places) ”, to 18%. However, 87% of respondents say they are worried about the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis, 73% are for them and their families (27% not worried).
The survey was carried out by online questionnaire from August 13 to 14, 2020, with a sample of 1,003 people representative of the population aged at least 18, according to the quota method.
Society
84% of French people are ready to comply with the rule of wearing a mask outdoors
Politics
Renewed popularity for Emmanuel Macron and French confidence in Jean Castex
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