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Corona - what does help you? Your fears, thoughts, everything
southendmd:
You mean about the vax + booster?
People in their 70s are still at very high risk of serious illness, even if it's a breakthrough infection.
(BTW, 2L/min is a very low oxygen dose.)
Front-Ranger:
I've been seeing bare shelves at the grocery store again, only in different areas. The toilet paper situation is just fine, but the produce is iffy and the meat section is really awful. Yesterday I had the choice of icky looking pork roasts, whole chickens, poorly wrapped beef and fish. In the bread section, the toasting bread was half as tall as it usually is. Oddly, the sushi section was completely stocked and there were rows of colorful decorated birthday cakes.
I was assigned to get some children's laxative by my daughter and despite going to three places, I only found huge containers of Miralax for adults. The pharmacist told me I could just cut the adult dose in half. No way!
serious crayons:
At this point it might be less a supply chain problems than employee shortages. Everywhere is short on employees. When I encounter a long line in a grocery store or pharmacy, normally I get annoyed that they don't call in more cashiers. But right now I think many places just don't have the help.
I realize some of this is caused by omicron -- people getting it themselves or having to care for kids because schools and daycares are closed with people getting omicron.
But part of it is apparently that employers are leaving their jobs. The question is, where are they going? How are they getting by? I've seen a lot of stories about the employees leaving part, but only one about how they're supporting themselves, and that one didn't really answer the question. It said some are retiring early, filing for social security, or are just broke. But what about all the people too young to retire? And when they're broke, why don't they get another job? I don't get it.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 27, 2022, 12:56:18 pm ---But part of it is apparently that employers are leaving their jobs. The question is, where are they going? How are they getting by? I've seen a lot of stories about the employees leaving part, but only one about how they're supporting themselves, and that one didn't really answer the question. It said some are retiring early, filing for social security, or are just broke. But what about all the people too young to retire? And when they're broke, why don't they get another job? I don't get it.
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I don't get it either. Everywhere you go, from Dunkin Donuts to the bank branch my dad uses, you see help-wanted signs. How are these people who quit their jobs living? ???
I wonder if anybody has any statistics on people leaving their jobs in the service sector? (Maybe that's not the right term. I'm thinking of people like grocery store cashiers, fast-food worker, and so forth.)
CellarDweller:
It's my own belief that people during the pandemic realized how much of their time they were losing to work. I work daily, then had a commute, and spent the weekend doing chores.
Working from home, when it was slow, I was able to do chores while I worked from home, giving me free time on the weekends.
People worked on budgets or on 'side-hustles' as a way to make money, and weren't so eager to come back and loose that free time, so they left their jobs, especially if they were getting just minimum wage.
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