And many who didn't die now have to live with permanent disability that prevents them from holding any kind of job (especially because employers are so opposed to making the work accessible).
Those who are able-bodied and still remain have left to fill the higher-paying vacancies left behind by the newly deceased/disabled.
They died when you told them they were "essential" and couldn't not work. They died when you refused them paid sick leave during a pandemic. They died because they have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet, multiplying their chance of exposure. They died because you refused to do even the most basic things like wear a mask, not go out, and get vaccinated.
They died because you killed them, America.
I found an article related to this:
COVID-19 mortality rate five times higher among labor, retail and service workers, study reveals A USF College of Public Health study shows correlations between COVID-19 mortality rates and the socioeconomic position, gender, ethnicity a usf.eduA study showed that 68% of ppl who died the first year of the pandemic were service, retail, or labor workers who were in low socioeconomic positions.
Long Covid is having a huge impact on the world.
From this study, 37% of people who have had covid and recovered have developed some form of long covid. Symptoms include: abnormal breathing, abdominal symptoms, chest/throat pain, cognitive problems (also called “brain fog”), fatigue, headache, muscle pain, other pain, and anxiety/depression.
So, how many people is that?
From the WHO website (as of 5.33pm CEST, 29 July 2022), there have been 572,239,451 confirmed cases of Covid. Of these, 6,390,401 people have died from Covid.
This leaves us with 565,849,050 confirmed cases that haven't resulted in death.
Now, cases doesn't translate to individual people, since people can get it more than once.
This BBC article from February 2022 suggests that ~4% of those positive tests are from reinfections. Since there is ongoing research into the reinfection rate, and very little data available, that is the figure I will use.
Leaving us with a total of 543,215,088 people with a confirmed case of Covid.
If 37% of those people have long covid, that's 200,989,583 people with long covid.
In other words, approximately 2.6% of the population of the entire world has some form of long covid
Long covid is a mass disabling event
Capitalism has a lot to answer for, make no mistake your suffering was all for profit