This is very true. Also, this can partly be addressed without necessarily identifying specific private locations, but by reporting occupation. Racial capitalism shapes risk, shown by race+income-disaggregated data. Cases and outbreaks by occupation can be reported as well. https://twitter.com/gordperks/status/1308182843659608065
Overall there has been a massive dearth of occupational epidemiology during this pandemic in North America. The little published so far points to workplaces like farms, meatpacking, warehouses as being very high risk.
And contact tracing/epi studies can be biased by the nature of job, events, & recall bias. E.g. easy to tie outbreaks to a party with family, or meatpacking line, hard to link if person is exposed thru work as taxi driver or taking packed transit. Occupation can highlight..
.. risk differences by social class, and point to kinds of social structures driving transmission, without necessarily having to identify all workplace exposures. One example: young people rely on precarious employment, and are also underhoused. While large parties make clickbait
headlines, it may actually be the push to reopen with the threat of CERB ending that's pushing young people back to high-risk work. It's hard to know without knowing about occupation or other context. But we know that capitalism and racism have heavily shaped pop risk so far.
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