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I suspect that this hiring streak will continue. With almost 1/2 million new or repeat cases a day and a 7 day average 2250 deaths a day there are going to be places where there will not be C-19 free crew. These numbers do have a few break thru cases per 100. This is going to have an effect on T&E crew availability. Fortunately the few that will have to go to the hospital quickly recover by being vaccinated. For the next few weeks then expect more cancellations which are in the cards.
The Feds already did research on this, labor shortage is related to pandemic but not to people getting sick. They found basically three large deficits among many of folks leaving the workforce for good or changing jobs..........
1. Women not returning to the workforce in the numbers they left. They are attributing this to cuts in Child Care as well as home schooling requirements.
2. Retirees no longer hanging on past retirement age or seeing another job or career to start. They attribute this to earlier robust equity markets making nest eggs larger than they were.
3. People that wanted to switch jobs before the pandemic but there was not enough opportunity at their skill level. Some went back to college and others found positions opening at lower skill levels and just upped and quit their current job to search for something they liked better either via changing career fields or going back to school.
Conclusion is the labor shortage is not going to correct itself anytime soon.
