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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe it has had a huge impact on healthcare. I've heard that 10% of doctors in the US left the profession in 2022. There are many systemic things going on, but Covid made the pot boil over, and many of them seem to be hanging in there just because they can't afford to leave with student loans hanging over their head, because they haven't figured out a career outside of medicine. They're angry at insurance companies, they're angry at the government, they're angry at Medicare (reimbursement cuts), they're more easily angered by difficult patients, and they're really angry at healthcare admins and CEOs. Ditto nurses and other healthcare roles.

That's an area that is going to affect every one of us. 
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Agree with this and I think there is a parallel thing going on in education, with some slightly different dynamics but very similar attitudes from teachers and administrators.

For me one of the biggest shifts is the feeling of interacting with the education system, the way it feels at my kid's school or even just interacting 1:1 with teachers. Even teachers I've always liked and still get alone with! There's this feeling like everyone is at the end of their rope all the time. I always work hard not to be a burdensome parent when I deal with teachers, and that was true pre-Covid too -- I have lots of respect for what they do and I want to support them to do their job well, not get in the way or make their job harder. But since Covid, I feel like I walk on eggshells. I love my kid's current teacher, she's great, but I'm also pretty much afraid she's going to quit. Pre-Covid, I would never have worried that a teacher like this would quit, much less midyear. Now I honestly don't know -- if she gets fed up enough, she might. We had a teacher a couple years ago who was similar and she quit last year. Incredibly dedicated teacher, amazing with kids, I think she just hit a point of frustration and burn out that she couldn't come back from.

Education wasn't in a great place pre-Covid, but the degree to which the pandemic accelerated the worst things about it, and just made it less and less appealing as a profession, can't be ignored. I also think public education is never been more vulnerable for the kind of Betsy Devon-desired privatization, with a shift to charters and private schools and some kind of voucher system for people who can't afford them. I'm honestly not sure public K-12 education is going to survive in this country.[/quote]

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