A great thread, thought-provoking, thoughtful and empathetic.https://twitter.com/ScoLatham/status/1476637010727161867 …
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Replying to @BallouxFrancois
Except it has almost nothing to do with the reality of the kinds of work people with less education do in the United States. One, it’s almost all service sector, not climbing on stairs you may fall from. Two, construction workers etc. is exactly where it is better regulated.
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Replying to @zeynep
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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Replying to @BallouxFrancois
For average lesser educated worker in the US in the service sector there is no question that Covid is the highest risk they face at work. They are cashiers not fly fishers. Even in construction, his numbers do not work—fatality rate is 10 out of every 100,000, lower than Covid.
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Replying to @zeynep @BallouxFrancois
“Fly fishers”
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Replying to @BetSnyder @BallouxFrancois
It was the original example in the other thread, not mine. I admit, I made it fly fishing because of word limits. I don't mean recreational stuff. He means commercial fishing, which is for real high risk.
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Replying to @zeynep @BallouxFrancois
Why not just say fishing, if it was word limits.
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Fine, if I had an edit button I would say that though that's not super clear either. It's Twitter you get the point. Most service sector folks in the United States are not in otherwise high-risk trades.
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