https://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-covid-impact-labor-market-missing-workers/
an equivalent of 1.6 million people are missing from the full-time workforce because of the disease, which can leave people incapacitated for months with persistent symptoms including fatigue, brain fog, headaches, memory loss and heart palpitations.
Oh damn, really? I thought people were just being lazy and subsisting off of special unemployment benefits -- that dried up in most states back in July of last year, and ended nation-wide last September -- all in the midst of a massive increase in the cost of food and rent.
Woo, can't wait for several years of headlines to spell out what was apparent in the first three months of this thing
"There was no way of knowing a disease could be airborne. No country could have possibly prevented this."
"Doing the things that prevented it is authoritarian and bad so it doesn't count actually"
Now just think about the impact of all the plastics, the lead in the water, Zika virus (remember that one??), etc, etc. The future is going to be wild.
Wow, it's almost like letting a pandemic turn endemic isn't a real pandemic response plan
Nah you don't understand next year this time it'll be as mild as a little sniffle. That's the rule viruses have to live by.
Imagine if the US was fighting polio for the first time.
20% of children would be crippled and folks would still be demanding Applebees stop requiring masks.
Wow, it's almost like leftists wete saying this in 2020. Glad these Crack news people were on the job back when the propaganda push to reopen was going on.
This is how the workforce was for several years after the 2008 crash. Skeleton crews only, and each employee doing the work of 2-3 people each. I don’t miss those days.
Also more than half that number of people are just fucking dead.
With those symptoms you could almost claim it was Havana syndrome, except it's real