@nancylwayne @hoelessromantic right. Those that aren’t dead can basically never go back to a work routine like they maintained previously because of long COVID.
@KN3RDS @nancylwayne @hoelessromantic
Yeah, I refuse to believe that these people can't figure it out.
As of the beginning of 2022 there were an estimated 1.6 million full-time workers "missing" from the workforce due long COVID (https://www.brookings.edu/research/is-long-covid-worsening-the-labor-shortage/). I'm going to bet that hasn't gotten significantly better in the last year.
Excess deaths are at ~1.3 million in the US since 2020 at this point (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard).
There's 3 million of the 3.4 million "missing" already and we don't even have great long COVID numbers for the past year that I've seen. None of this is all that hard to figure out and they're welcome to pay me to figure it out for them if they'd like :)
@BE @KN3RDS @nancylwayne @hoelessromantic They'll never accept that as the reason because people are dead and disabled because the economist consensus said "Get back to work".
@nancylwayne @BE @hoelessromantic you *know* there’s some donation money changing hands to maintain this “confusion” instead of just stating that COVID fucked us all. For enough money, Philip Morris can get any scientist to say cigarettes are good for you!