[dragonwriter]

> The biggest thing people don’t talk about is a lot of workers got paid to stay home during Covid.

The biggest thing people don't talk about is that a very large portion of the population got (and more are still getting) long COVID during COVID (which is still present with a very high infection rates, with vaccines and treatments mitigating acute symptoms—and transmission, in the case of vaccines, but with other control measures abandoned that makes very little real difference), including people whose infection was not immediately symptomatic, which substantially interferes with ability to work, for a period of months.