The reason employees aren't returning to work in America [video]

Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by fragmede on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:09PM (#28587946)

Your second point, grim as it may be, is probably worth larger consideration. I'm projecting here, but I believe many of them were the kind of people that had 3 jobs in order to make ends meet and couldn't take time off to get the vaccine, and the subtext is that the economy was actually more reliant on that tiny pool of people (<0.2% of Americans) than we realized!

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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by Arete314159 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:38PM (#28686556)

Yes, many of the workers who died were in front-line / public-facing jobs. I heard "line cook" was one of the jobs with the highest mortality level. So tragic.

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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by esyir on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:31PM (#28589875)

I'd doubt it. Those in said positions are the younger portion of the population and thus at dramatically lower risk of death.

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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by dv_dt on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:39AM (#28594983)

I think there is actually a lot of data that many of the low wage positions are long term jobs for a middle aged to older demographic.

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Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ... by unpolloloco on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:28PM (#28588098)

Your point still stands (those people had high contact jobs), but most of the people who died did so prior to vaccine availability. It's only been the past ~4-5 months where there's been widespread availability. And there are very few people at this point (in the US) who haven't gotten the vaccine solely because of their scheduling (though that reason might be cited as a clean justification!). It's clearly vaccine hesitancy...

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