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I mean I agree, COVID has definitely impacted the workforce in a wide variety of complicated ways and even then its not necessarily a 1 for 1 of working adults dying. Also, due to COVID complications there have also been a lot of people who are now disabled/unable to do their previous jobs which also impacts these numbers. I just wanted to point out that while 150k is a lot of people, its not really a massive percentage of the overall US workforce.



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