@KN3RDS That, or they have become primary caregivers to people with long COVID, or to dependents who's primary caregiver died from is is incapacitated by COVID. Yep. "If only we knew what giant life / lifestyle altering event had happened in this country to drastically change how people could/would function, gosh-golly!"

@megueyb yeah, I spent many years trying to give newspapers the benefit of the doubt, but after the pandemic they just became ridiculously class-based. And not our class.