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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Gimme a break, elderly are among the most vaccinated everywhere, even though they are rarely subject to mandates. People want to write existantialist pieces, fine, but you gotta fit the facts. We're talking about vaccination not heroic measures at end-of-life.
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He is by no means claiming that most people would think that way, but just significantly more than in the west. In fact, his view has been challenged precisely with some of your arguments that it amounts more to distrust in politics, media, medical systems, etc.
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At a minimum, your theory has to fit the facts. Western attitude towards the elderly in this pandemic hasn’t been a culturally stoic acceptance of death, or heroic measures to postpone it. We’ve mostly abandoned the elderly and they ran to the vaccines, relatively speaking.
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