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
And I find the idea that people with lower life expectancy due to structural factors are therefore less worried about other risks in their lives under their own control because of relative risk perception to be without any evidence. Doesn’t make sense. Like why?
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Replying to @zeynep
It makes a lot of sense to me that people who have experienced hardship and death may not consider Covid as the sole threat to their lives. But then, I may not have had the typical upbringing, and career path, of the 'standard academic'.
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Replying to @BallouxFrancois
Why would they dismiss the threat of Covid because of hardship or death in their lives? I have as far away from a standard academic life or career path as you can likely imagine but why would I think "oh, I didn't die as a teenager therefore I'm not gonna wear a seatbelt now"?
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Replying to @zeynep @BallouxFrancois
The unvaccinated being poor/uneducated in the US is almost certainly due to lack of trust in the medical system and the institutions of science, and not because they have made some rational risk calculation and decided COVID is small risk—it is a very big risk to them, in fact.
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Replying to @zeynep @BallouxFrancois
I have a pretty big family: 35 cousins on my father's side, all from a rural background. I've talked to them, and others, and I think I know how they think. They think that these vaccines are a greater risk than the disease, and they're quite explicit about it.
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They're all being told that "the virus has a 99% survival rate", which is wrong because it's oversimplified, but yes they absolutely do downplay that risk.
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Yeah I totally believe that constituency exists, they show up in research a lot, but what's happening there isn't rational risk calculation relative to rest of their lives. It's that they've been told vaccines are highly-risky (false) and the virus is almost no risk (also false).
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