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.

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wow, it's almost like letting a pandemic turn endemic isn't a real pandemic response plan

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.