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How long COVID is impacting the nationwide labor shortage
The hill ^ | 09/05/2022 | Sylvan Lane

Posted on 09/05/2022 11:49:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Persistent COVID-19 symptoms could be keeping millions of Americans out of the workforce.

Economists and policymakers have struggled to figure out why a much lower percentage of working-age adults are in the labor force than before the pandemic.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; impacting; labor; nationwide
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Well as long as diaper face is an office you can forget it.
1 posted on 09/05/2022 11:49:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Excessive deaths hurt the society.


2 posted on 09/05/2022 11:54:08 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BS. Get your butts to work.


3 posted on 09/05/2022 11:55:23 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ah yes the myth of long covid, two, maybe three people afflicted.


4 posted on 09/05/2022 11:57:47 AM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Long COVID? Really? I call bull crap on that.


5 posted on 09/05/2022 11:58:39 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: exnavy

Blaming a myth is what they’re down to.


6 posted on 09/05/2022 11:59:15 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I suspect most of what they call long covid is really vaxxed damaged people.


7 posted on 09/05/2022 12:01:34 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“How long COVID is impacting the nationwide labor shortage”

How long will government paying people not to work affect the nationwide labor shortage

There, fixed it


8 posted on 09/05/2022 12:03:07 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not Covid.

It’s government overreach.


9 posted on 09/05/2022 12:05:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: jimwatx

Agreed.

Who didn’t see that one coming?

Many of us predicted that from the very beginning of the “vax” rollout.


10 posted on 09/05/2022 12:05:57 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any time a news story’s first sentence contains could, might. may etc. I don’t waste my time reading further.


11 posted on 09/05/2022 12:06:34 PM PDT by dblshot
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A guy I know has a wife with long COVID. She was a medical doctor in general practice and doing well. She got the illness so bad she was hospitalized and on a ventilator. Her recovery was long and she has not been able to return to work. She has great loss of strength/weakness and some mental confusion. Every scan, test and referral has been done but no real improvement. She has been told to apply for S.S.disability. He has MS and is weak too so it is a blow for both of them.


12 posted on 09/05/2022 12:07:18 PM PDT by RicocheT
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or maybe it’s side effects from the jab?


13 posted on 09/05/2022 12:08:13 PM PDT by cableguymn
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I don’t think many people know just how many out there were damaged by the adverse effects from the vaxx, it’s a lot more than people realize.

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/adverse-reactions-to-covid-vaccines


14 posted on 09/05/2022 12:09:23 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: cableguymn
Short, medium and long covid


15 posted on 09/05/2022 12:10:19 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Long covid” qualifies as a disability.

Don’t expect it to ever go away.


16 posted on 09/05/2022 12:12:23 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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At least it doesn’t have anything to do with 30 years of participation trophies or how the majority of those under 40 are whiney little crybabies that are afraid of their own shadow. I am sure it has nothing to do with how Presstitutes did their best to scare the daylights out of the little pussies with their constant propaganda and lies about an influenza strain that for most people was NOTHING!!!

Maybe it is because they are just a bunch of lazy asses who are just fat and happy living in mommas basement hittin the pipe and sippin their 40 ounce. But at least they a computer screen down there so they get a little hands on experience when they turn on the video games and pull their pants down.

My opinion of todays young people is beyond contempt, they are the biggest crybaby sissies of a group to walk this earth. But since I believe everyone has a God Given Right to DIE IN THE STREET from their own laziness, I don’t give a damn if they do.


17 posted on 09/05/2022 12:14:23 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: RicocheT

She was vaxxed?


18 posted on 09/05/2022 12:31:44 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How much of the long covid is a result of one or more booster shots besides the normal 2 shots?

We know a few people who, fit into that category.

First of all these are not lazy nor fat people, and they prefer to work, keep busy and enjoy life while working.

One developed it after a Delta infection a year ago in August. He finally got back to working and managing his construction company a few months ago. He went downhill after his 1st booster shot.

The other is a DNA relative, who loved his job and had to give it up after his second booster shot. He had the supposedly weak form of Covid #3 or #4. Fortunately his company backed him and got him into a less stressful job. He had that bug in March of last year, and he is just now nearing his previous good health. He finally got the long Covid diagnosis earlier this year.

The third person is a young Hispanic/American woman, (3 generations of being American citizens.

She basically dropped out of her senior year of school last year. Her HMO, last month went to the Long Covid probable diagnosis. She has an appt., next week to see how to help her.

Her public school required the 3rd and 4th booster shots, and she has been downhill healthwise since then.

Besides liking their work and previously being healthy, the common factor may be the booster shots being given to healthy people and them.


19 posted on 09/05/2022 12:35:47 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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I suspect the COVID fiasco convinced a lot of people in the 55+ age cohort to simply retire rather than deal with the idiocy imposed on them by government and corporate leaders.


20 posted on 09/05/2022 12:47:44 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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