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Health pass: the French between understanding and weariness

2021-09-24T03:34:13.556Z


SURVEY - If 61% of French people remain in favor of this device, it is six points less than at the beginning of September, according to an Odoxa-Backbone Consulting survey.


While the decline of the epidemic continues in the country, the patience of the French vis-à-vis health measures begins to wane.

If 61% of them remain in favor of the health pass, it is six points less than at the beginning of September, according to an Odoxa-Backbone Consulting * poll for

Le Figaro

published on Thursday.

The answers vary a lot depending on age: while 75% of those over 65 still approve of it, almost half of those under 35 no longer support the measure.

A 'social category' effect is also very visible,

notes Céline Bracq, general manager of Odoxa:

we record 55% approval only among workers against 71% among executives.

"

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At the end of a new health defense council, the government chose Wednesday to maintain the use of the health pass in all French departments, arguing through the voice of its spokesperson that this device is "

a very effective tool to keep open places that would have had to be closed if the sanitary pass had not existed

”.

A bill to extend this pass beyond November 15 is being drafted, although Gabriel Attal has indicated that the government will "

continue to work on its adaptation

".

"

The President of the Republic has placed an order so that adaptation criteria can be defined.

They will obviously take into account the incidence rate in the different departments but they will also take into account the percentage of the population vaccinated in these same departments,

”he detailed.

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An adaptation that the French seem to be waiting with some impatience: according to the Odoxa survey, they are even 61% to call for the reduction or even the elimination of the health pass in the departments where the virus circulates less. And if they are still 56% to accept the idea of ​​an extension beyond next November 15, it is 5 points less than at the beginning of the month. Among those under 35, they are only 45% in favor. A fed up that the epidemiologist Antoine Flahault was anticipating in our columns on Wednesday: "

keeping strong measures in place while they are not essential on the epidemiological level exposes the weariness of the population, and in the long term, there is a risk of reduced effectiveness of the measure when

we will really need it ”.

For Céline Bracq, "

it is probably starting to be a bit long and health data security bugs can tarnish the reputation of sesame

".

Last week in fact, the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) announced that the personal data of about 1.4 million people, who have carried out a test for Covid-19 in Ile- de-France in mid-2020, had been stolen "

following a computer attack

".

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Tired of the pass ... and the passwords

If they tire of the past, the French do not support those who fight it any more: 59% of those questioned consider that the demonstrations that take place every weekend are not justified, when 40% approve them (i.e. 3 points of less than at the beginning of the month).

"The cleavage between the ones and the others is always (…) very related to the social categories: 54% of the workers justify the movement" anti-pass "while the executives are only 25% to do it",

explains Céline Bracq.

Weariness sets in and the look on the record of President Emmanuel Macron in his management of the health crisis suffers: 44% consider it positive, or four points less than at the beginning of the month.

“If they welcome the high vaccination coverage in our country, the French have probably 'got used to it' and, as we have seen, are showing more and more the desire for a life without a pass ... This explains the drop in positive judgments in this survey, ”

comments the general manager of Odoxa.

* Survey carried out on a sample of 1005 French people interviewed online on September 22 and 23, 2021.

Source: lefigaro

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