As COVID cases rise once again, we are unprepared for the "mass disabling" event caused by long COVID
An alarming scientific pattern is revealing itself across intersecting areas of research, which suggests that long COVID could be linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's – having to do with the misfolding of alpha-synuclein proteins in the human nervous system. This misfolding is possibly triggered by an initial COVID infection and can lead to unwanted accumulation of alpha-synuclein and the formation of Lewy bodies, resulting in neurological disorders.
Long COVID patients are quite possibly experiencing the early stages of neurodegeneration.
In fairness to the "mass resignation" thing, hey that could happen. It's not like health workers are magical angels will all the right opinions; a coworker's ex is a nurse and a staunch anti-vaxxer.
Some of this could be avoided by ramping up propaganda, by doing things like seizing the media and running a long-covid story every night on every news outlet in the country.