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Grocery worker COVID deaths: 41/900000 = 0.00004555555 (this number is from article and only for union members). Total US COVID deaths: 28000/328000000 = 0.00
by mikekhusid 6y ago
Grocery worker COVID deaths: 41/900000 = 0.00004555555
(this number is from article and only for union members).
Total US COVID deaths: 28000/328000000 = 0.00008536585. So seemingly there's nothing particularly risky about being a grocery store worker. In fact, you're about half as likely to die!
Keep in mind the 328mm number includes children, non-working adults, etc and of course total deaths are skewed towards older non-working adults. Still it's extremely frustrating, but not surprising, that the media refuses to do any sort of cursory analysis like this.
- pixl97 6y agoIt's probably not about death, it's probably about the no insurance and risk of bankruptcy by hospitalization they fear.
- thatcat 6y agoDoes workman's comp cover on job exposure?
- mikekhusid 6y agoThat's not what the article is about.
- SilasX 6y agoI seriously doubt that the dramatically increased exposure you get as a grocery store worker makes you safer, and suspect this effect reverses once you control for risk factors.
- mikekhusid 6y agoA more interesting and intellectually honest article would flesh this out a bit, maybe with actual evidence.
- SilasX 6y agoReally? Should they also "flesh out" that the death rate in hospitals is higher than in your home, even if they don't have the time adequately control for "people only being in the hospital when they're sick or nearly fatal to begin with"? Working in a grocery store rather than staying at home is, intuitively, less safe. If they're not able to carefully control for the risk factors, they're doing a disservice to report that figure by itself. And it's a non-trivial amount of work to do so such controls, simply to appease those who repeat over-clever contrarian factoids like that one.