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by mikewarot 1625 days ago
I think that this is a great way to cover up the problem with the wave of people disabled by Long Covid falling out of the work force. Blame it instead on a vocal group of slackers.

It's going to work, everyone will blame them, and Covid keeps getting ignored.
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gruez 1624 days ago
>I think that this is a great way to cover up the problem with the wave of people disabled by Long Covid falling out of the work force.

I must have missed the memo about the hoards of workers being disabled by long covid. Can you link me to it?

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mikewarot 1624 days ago
https://www.barrons.com/articles/labor-shortage-workers-mill...
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gruez 1624 days ago
>Some 3 million workers remain out of the labor force

>Bunker estimates that roughly 20% of Covid cases in the U.S. turn into long Covid, and that at least half of that slice isn’t able to work. Doing some back-of-the-envelope math, that’s 4.6 million people.

So 153% of people out of the workforce have long covid? That seems a bit high.

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