re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

Latest numbers suggest we’ve lost around 200 000 folks of working age (18-65) to the pandemic.

But beyond this, what about people who survive but are stuck with long covid? Or who do mostly recover but are still unable to do their previous jobs for various reasons?

Death is only one reason people fall out of the labor force.

By itself, 200,000 isn’t that big a number nationally distributed. But regional pockets of that number would be potentially far more significant and impactful, especially if the deaths were disproportionately weighted to a specific corner of the workforce.

We saw this with illnesses among our offshore contractors when India spiked. Changed target dates for some teams.