The French want to see their families again. According to a survey carried out by OpinionWay and the Solidaris institute for the MGEN mutual, the year 2020 leaves a certain taste of bitterness to the population. The overall index of well-being shows a drop of 2 points on a scale of 0 to 100 compared to 2019. Confinement and deprivation of liberties represent the main causes of general ill-being.
If the second restrictive measures do not seem to be as well tolerated as the first, Public Health France alert on the increase in the number of new Covid-19 cases recorded, more than 10,000 every day. The high level of the number of hospitalizations worries the national agency. She considers it useful to maintain the reduction of contacts, which will further degrade the mental state of the French. According to the Odoxa Barometer, only 68.5% of them have real friends, or -14 points in 3 years.
A “horrible” year 2020
If the maintenance of individual preventive measures in the private and public sphere constitutes the The only brake on the circulation of the virus, the French are placing their freedoms as the main hope for the year 2021, well before the vaccine. They use the term “horrible” to qualify 2020. Only 63.2% of French people remain satisfied with their love or sentimental life: a loss of 7 points compared to 2019. Good neighborly relations are also down 6 points in a year.
If the overall index of well-being at the end of the year of the population is in free fall because of the coronavirus, Santé Publique France remains quite pessimistic about a possible improvement in the coming months.
Sources:
Public Health France: epidemiological update December 2020
Odoxa-Dentsu Consulting political barometer for the month of December
MGEN / Solidaris barometer “Confidence and well-being of the French” 2020
