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.
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.