A great thread, thought-provoking, thoughtful and empathetic.https://twitter.com/ScoLatham/status/1476637010727161867 …
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Their jobs are already risky so what’s a little bit of covid to them is almost certainly not what’s going on at all.
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And you’re not going to run into that many people climbing up your ladder or on your boat.
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There are 7 million construction workers in the US. I think you’re being a little uncharitable here.
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That’s the number employed by the *industry*. How many do you think are doing at-risk work? Most less educated people who remain unvaccinated in this country are doing perfectly mundane service work indoors, and their numbers are overwhelming. Numbers don’t work for the theory.
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Indeed. He paints this population as mostly at risk due to non-Covid-factors tied to their jobs (eg: accidents). But in fact, for someone working at a grocery store, their main on-the-job risk would probably be Covid--a risk much higher than for white-collar college educated folx
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It’s not like we don’t have data on this. The highest at-risk occupation for Covid deaths was line cook. Service workers have been dying in droves. Covid is absolutely the highest risk they face at work, by far. I can do the back of the envelope calculation but it’s pretty clear.
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I think it's still true that a young service worker has a higher risk tolerance than an old college professor due to their differing life circumstances.
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How do you know this? Maybe choice, but not tolerance. I don’t deny there are some high anxiety people in the academy. I’m an academic. But like tech, there’s an enormous number of recreational risktakers as well. I don’t see bravery/risk difference tbh. More choice & education.
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I disagree. First, there are jobs that remain inherently more risky, whatever regulations may be in place. Second, the thread is fundamentally about the (perceived) relative risk of covid. If one's life expectancy is not that high anyway, Covid may well feel less threatening.
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I am sure you are correct about the proportion of service sector workers, but this was a very accurate depiction of my construction worker family's attitude. And I would disagree that construction work is more regulated- certainly not in practice wrt covid.
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Construction worker deaths are far less than Covid deaths for that age bracket per capita. They aren’t doing accurate risk calculation. Les education or cultural factors may be mediating this. But it’s not some rational risk calculations.
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