The lesson America refuses to learn about Covid-19 and the economy

Photo: New Yorkers waiting in line for a Covid-19 test in Times Square on December 20, 2021. Photo credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images. Article by Emily Stewart. Vox – Updated January 12, 2022.

American workers are forced to white-knuckle it once again.

The omicron variant doesn’t spell complete disaster for the economy, but it’s not great, either. It reinforces what’s been true throughout the pandemic: What happens to the economy is contingent on what happens with the virus, and as long as the virus isn’t under control, neither is the country’s economic destiny, or the world’s. […]

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