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.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Woo, can't wait for several years of headlines to spell out what was apparent in the first three months of this thing

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      "There was no way of knowing a disease could be airborne. No country could have possibly prevented this."

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "Doing the things that prevented it is authoritarian and bad so it doesn't count actually"

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      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.