US poll: Home is the safest place amid COVID-19 pandemic

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Based on a poll conducted by John Zogby Strategies, about 80 percent of US adults claim that they only feel safe when they are at their homes amid the pandemic.
• Around 55 percent of Americans said that they also feel secure when they are with friends and relatives.
• According to Navigate360 CEO JP Guilbault, who funded the poll, companies and establishments would need to “over-communicate” their health and safety precautions to address the strong concerns of the Americans.

According to a new poll, nearly eight out of ten Americans said that they do not feel secure against the coronavirus when they are out in places like businesses and schools.

When asked to identify what places provide the safest haven amid the virus outbreak, the poll showed that about 78 percent of adults said they chose their homes.

Meanwhile, 55 percent also said they feel safe when alongside peers and relatives. About 19 percent picked their workplace while the remaining eight percent chose their favorite restaurant.

The poll also discovered that almost 40 percent of Americans who are reporting for duty said that it’s riskier to work today than six months ago. It also showed that less than half of US adults were trustful of their school and workplace management in mitigating the virus and providing a safe environment.

Pollster John Zogby, who led the survey initiated by security-services company Navigate360, noted that the “leaders who are supposed to be doing things to make me feel safe and secure [has] taken a beating.”

“There’s a strong inference from [the results] that this isn’t here today, gone tomorrow,” Zogby told The Post.

In a separate survey, around 70 percent of teens aged 16 to 17 years old said they also feel secure only when at home, and 44 percent of students claim that the current environment is less safe versus six months ago.

The survey, which commenced on August 28, was conducted by John Zogby Strategies with 1,000 adult participants and 303 teens via random sampling. The adult poll had a 3.2 percentage points margin of error while the teen’s survey was at 5.7 percentage points.

According to Navigate360 CEO JP Guilbault, the country’s overwhelming health and safety concerns suggest the need for businesses and establishments to “over-communicate” their efforts and measures in place to fight the virus and protect their people.

“That not only has to be obvious in terms of what’s on display, it has to show up in the staff of a business — that the staff is equally educated and understands the reasoning behind their protocols, behind their procedures,” he told The Post.

Source: New York Post