There seems to be a lot of confusion about why there are so many fewer workers now than in '19.

Let me explain.
- A new sickness emerged.
- We ignored it for a while.
- We took it seriously for approximately 2 seconds.
- We let it rip.
- Lots of people died and are still dying.
- Lots more people became or are becoming disabled to mild or severe degrees, with no prognosis of recovery.
- We aren't sure what else will happen to the infected.

That's what happened and is still happening.

@djwfyi Official numbers IIRC were around 500k-600k working age adults don’t exist that existed in 2019. That’s including death and retirement. I’d be more inclined to think it’s closer to double that. So when companies layoff 10k or 20k it doesn’t even blip employment numbers because those people go directly to new work.