MADISON, WI (WTAQ) — Wisconsinites are becoming less worried about COVID-19.
That’s according to the most recent Marquette University Law School Poll. Poll Director Charles Franklin says despite an increase in COVID-19 cases, people are less worried.
“Up until now, worry has gone up as cases increased,” he told WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’ on Thursday. “But that increase has continued the last three weeks while the ‘very worried’ percentage actually fell off.”
The latest poll, released Wednesday, shows that 22% of Wisconsinites are ‘very worried’ about contracting COVID-19, compared to 27% in the previous poll. The number of people who said they were “somewhat worried” jumped from 34% to 35% in the latest poll, while the number of people who said they were ‘not very worried’ jumped from 16% to 20%.
Franklin says one group, those who responded ‘not worried at all’, has stayed consistent over the past few months.
“That’s about 20%, and that number has remained at about 20% since May,” Franklin said. “And it doesn’t respond to numbers rising or falling.”
People are becoming less concerned about the economy as well.
“The percentage of people saying that they were ‘living comfortably’ went up from 60% to 67% while ‘just getting by’ dropped from 30% to 26%, and ‘struggling’ dropped from 9% to 6%,” said Franklin.
That comes as the nation saw an unexpected rebound in the economy last quarter.
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