“This information just brings us down, there really is a very strong weight, much more than if we had announced the same measure a year earlier,” explains Beaulieu-Pelletier.Īccording to Dubé, the tendency to pessimism will increase as the fourth wave progresses.Īccording to Beaulieu-Pelletier, it is obvious that pandemic fatigue plays on the collective mood.
The recent progression of the Delta variant, the prolonged closure of the US border to Canadians as well as the reinstatement of containment measures in some countries have changed the public’s perception of the imminent end of the crisis, indicates Dubé. At the beginning of August, 69 per cent of the population of the province stated the same. Last June, 87 per cent of Quebecers considered that the worst of the health crisis was over. “In the long run, it wears us out,” she adds. There is a lot of hope at several times ” recalls Geneviève Beaulieu-Pelletier, psychologist and associate professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). “For a year and a half, we have been constantly adapting. In each trough, there was an increase in optimism, since one could believe that the end was near,” as was the case in the beginning of the summer of 2021, she said. “We really saw that it fluctuated over the waves. The mood of the population varies according to the progression of the waves of the virus, explains Ève Dubé, medical anthropologist at the INSPQ. In August, only 37 per cent of the population shared this optimism. At the end of June, 58 per cent of Quebecers believed that the pandemic would be over by the end of the year. This is the finding that emerges from a survey conducted by Quebec’s public health national institute (INPSQ).įewer and fewer people believe that life will return to its normal course in the year 2021, after a year and a half marked by the pandemic. As a fourth wave sweeps over the province, an imminent exit from the health crisis seems less and less likely in the eyes of the population. QUEBEC - The optimism displayed at the start of the summer by Quebecers is slowly running out of steam.
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