The impacts of these deaths are going to be far reaching though. For example, I had a friend in his 30s who died from Covid during the first wave. His last tweet was about how his manager at T-Mobile was a dick for making him come into work during a global pandemic.
Even though he is but one death in a sea of almost a million, he alone serves as a cautionary tale to dozens and dozens of surviving friends, family, and acquaintances. His friends and family have a much different view now of the nature of work in the US. For many of them, this has fundamentally changed their relationship with work, and yeah, some of them quit their jobs and won’t be coming back. Big business are left scratching their heads wondering why. Here’s a hint: check the Twitter feed.
There are hundreds of thousands of such cautionary tales out there now, impacting families across the nation. I don’t think we’ll be able to really understand the full impact of this for a long time to come.