report on Phase I<\/a> of the Life with Corona survey (March – September, 2020) documented evidence challenging such simple narratives. In fact, our data suggested that many young adults had actively engaged in numerous \u201chygiene\u201d and \u201cavoidance\u201d behaviours to counter the pandemic. Hygiene behaviours involve actively doing something (e.g. washing hands; wearing gloves; or donning a mask) while avoidance behaviours involve foregoing something that used to be relatively routine in pre-pandemic times (e.g. travelling by public transport or meeting people in groups). In this post, we revisit the question using LwC Phase II data from October 2020 till March 2021, which includes the second wave of infections in many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNew analyses based on 20,087 observations from 12 countries corroborate the findings from Phase I: the total number of counter-corona behaviours applied is relatively high across age groups, including young people, and the differences between age groups are very modest. In all age groups, total average falls into a narrow range between about 6.7 and 7.1 out of 9 measured behaviours. 18 to 25-year olds are not the age group that performs the least number of hygiene behaviours, nor the least avoidance behaviours. In both cases, \u201cmiddle-aged\u201d people (those aged 45-54) engage in the fewest counter-corona behaviours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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