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Originally Posted by JSH
Something people don't think about is child care. If schools aren't in session someone has to stay home with the kids. If one kid in a class test positive for COVID and the whole class gets quarantined at home for a week or two someone has to stay home from work.
It doesn't matter how much you offer someone per hour to work if they don't have someone to watch their kids while they are at work.
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That's very likely true. On the other hand, the jobless situation continues, or is worse now, even though the school here has NEVER closed due to COVID, not even a single class, and daycares have also been open for quite some time.
So those that send their kids to daycare, sure. They may have had to quite their job and have been reluctant to go back.
But in the end it's all related. Before the pandemic people were already living at their wits end. Both parents in an average family had to work so they could pay nearly half of those wages, or more than half, on housing. Then COVID hit. Some lost their job temporarily. Some had to stay home with their kids. Meanwhile, the housing market that was already too expensive just got even more expensive.
But once you've been affected there's not much incentive to keep going. It's kind of like falling down in a foot race. You were already running as fast as you could before you fell. Now you fell and everyone just passed you. You could get back up and try to run even faster, but that's starts seeming kind of pointless and you start to wonder if there isn't an easier race somewhere else.