Omicron variant causing "hellacious" worker shortages

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Arecord spike in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant is causing a nationwide worker "sickout," disrupting businesses ranging from grocery stores to airlines.

The past few weeks have been "hellacious," Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian said in a Thursday conference call with analysts and reporters. The executive said 8,000 employees have contracted COVID-19 in the last four weeks alone — about 10% of the carrier's workforce — a toll that contributed to more than 2,200 cancelled flights since December 24.

Although a precise count of the number of employees who are out sick sick or quarantining is hard to come by, about 5 million Americans could be isolating due to COVID-19 at the peak of Omicron, according to Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics. That could reflect about 2% of the nation's workforce forced to stay home due to illness, he added.

Some employers report taking a harder hit. Stew Leonard Jr., chief executive of supermarket chain Stew Leonard's, said that about 8% of his staff was out sick or quarantining last week. That affects what shoppers find on store shelves.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/omicron-variant-causing-hellacious-worker-shortages/ar-AASMHKx

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1. That's why I put out about $180 in groceries the last few days. It would have been more and sooner

but I'm just recovering from a knee replacement. I couldn't drive and pack stuff in very easily until now. I feel lucky to be able to do that. If we have bad shortages again, it will suck for people living paycheck to paycheck again.

One thing I couldn't get yesterday at Walmart was iodized salt. I had to have them ship one of those pound canisters.

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2. It's not a concidence that it coincides with the ending of the winter holidays

In New Jersey, at least, the seven-day average of new cases has dropped by 25% since Jan. 7.


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3. I canceled all my plans in January. Didn't want to, but I had no choice.

Fuck this sucks. Getting extremely tired of this shit.

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5. Sat out a funeral rather than travel out of state

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during the eight weeks it took for my Covid booster to fully kick in.


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4. I work at a small

grocery store. We only have 9 employees including myself. We had 3 people out a couple weeks ago. District manager still expected things to be perfect. That shit pisses me off. I want to scream, "WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE WAVE OF OMICRON, YOU POS!!!!!!!"

That is all.