When French President Emmanuel Macron and his government launched the Covid-19 vaccination programme back in December, they worried about vaccine scepticism. As polls showed that 60 percent of the population might refuse the vaccine, authorities wanted to avoid fuelling fear. ‘The French are always sceptical’“You can’t believe the polls about French scepticism about anything,” Tom Forth, a British data scientist, told The Local. Forth, who has lived and worked in France, recently wrote a blogpost about what he called the French “miserabilism”, a concept he said explained the high level of French vaccine scepticism expressed in the polls. READ ALSO When will I be eligible for the Covid vaccine in France?

Source: The Local March 25, 2021 10:29 UTC