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Old 11-11-2021, 12:55 PM
 
Location: So Ca
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Originally Posted by joosoon View Post
Once more, the virus itself (i.e. sickness from the virus) isn't suppressing worker supply.
It isn't?

Re: the L.A. Fire Department: "...the data, which The Times obtained under the California Public Records Act, show the lost time due to COVID-19 illness is already substantial, accounting for more than 400,000 hours of work completed between March 2020 and Oct. 9 of this year."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...shifts-of-sick

 
Old 11-11-2021, 01:18 PM
 
Location: San Diego Native
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That's a disingenuous argument.

It's a quote from the article *you* posted, so...????
 
Old 11-11-2021, 01:23 PM
 
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It isn't?

Ok. So then feel free to explain (to the contrary of explanations in Goodheathen's own link) that the reason people aren't going back to work is because they're chronically sick with covid19 and/or that employers can't find people to fill roles because the workforce is ill with covid19.



That's what we were talking about. Nothing else.



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Re: the L.A. Fire Department: "...the data, which The Times obtained under the California Public Records Act, show the lost time due to COVID-19 illness is already substantial, accounting for more than 400,000 hours of work completed between March 2020 and Oct. 9 of this year."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...shifts-of-sick



Irrelevant.
 
Old 11-11-2021, 01:38 PM
 
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I didn't say actual infection is a major, ongoing reason for worker shortages and especially vacancies.
 
Old 11-11-2021, 02:02 PM
 
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I didn't say actual infection is a major, ongoing reason for worker shortages and especially vacancies.

So then what did you mean by "The link between worker shortages and inflation makes slowing the spread imperative, even if long-term symptoms prove rare"?
 
Old 11-11-2021, 02:28 PM
 
Location: So Ca
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Ok. So then feel free to explain (to the contrary of explanations in Goodheathen's own link) that the reason people aren't going back to work is because they're chronically sick with covid19 and/or....
I didn't read her link; it doesn't apply to my question to your statement,"the virus itself (i.e. sickness from the virus) isn't suppressing worker supply."
 
Old 11-11-2021, 02:30 PM
 
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If it's everywhere, many people will be scared for themselves or loved ones and won't want to take lousy jobs that expose them to COVID-19 and that causes worker shortages. Yes, vaccination = lower risk, but the public perception seems to be that the vaccine isn't very protective. Does that make me a rocket scientist?
 
Old 11-11-2021, 06:53 PM
 
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Something important happening that does require brainpower from me is to note that many women hoping to have kids in the near future are paranoid of what the vaccine might do and refusal to get vaccinated makes them not candidates for many jobs.
 
Old 11-11-2021, 07:15 PM
 
Location: San Diego Native
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I didn't read her link; it doesn't apply to my question to your statement,"the virus itself (i.e. sickness from the virus) isn't suppressing worker supply."

Ok, and yet still, it's true.
All the reasons being cited by actual economists for employee shortages right now don't include "because everyone out there is sick in bed from covid19". People don't languish for a year and half unable to work because they got covid19.
 
Old 11-11-2021, 07:58 PM
 
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I think there are between a few hundred and a few thousand Americans who probably will never be able to resume their careers due to, for example, virus-related lung damage and strokes. I might be underestimating the number. You and many others persistently underestimate the negative impact of COVID-19.
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