For fuck’s sake people! Why are 2-3 million people missing from the US workforce? Well, hundreds of thousands of working adults died of COVID, millions developed long-term disabling health problems, and someone has to care for those folks. Remember — over 150,000 kids lost their primary caregiver in the first year of COVID alone. Someone has to leave the general workforce to care for those kids. COVID. The answer is COVID.
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You're think it would be self obvious, but it's always a mystery!
@BE @mcnado “something, something, it’s just a flu, something something” 😔
I am waiting for the day I snap and reply to “can’t get any help these days” with “coz all the help is sick or dead in case you hadn’t noticed“ 🤦♂️