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.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.