This is not universally true.
On the mandate job losses, I think a lot remains to be seen. We have the airline issue going on right now, and I think that's directly related. Not sure there's any in-person "nice safe job" honestly. This is so far from being over in regards to variants, there's just no sense in all this. The only mandate people need is a mandate on employers that any job that can be done at home, shall be done at home. Then mandating hazard pay for those that must do their jobs in-person. Those are the only mandates that make sense to me, and I would hope that by Jove, even our most brainwashed vaccine-loving brethren could get onboard with.
> Those are the only mandates that make sense to me, and I would hope that by Jove, even our most brainwashed vaccine-loving brethren could get onboard with.
I'm afraid that on a planet with 8ish billion meat-based life forms of extremely similar cellular makeup, vaccine mandates are going to be the norm going forward. Covid won't be the last pandemic, and vaccines are the best defense we have against them. It's not brainwashing to accept vaccination as a countermeasure, it's very clear-eyed realism.
I'm uninterested in the flu "vaccine" and the COVID "vaccine". With their narrow band of immunity, that wanes after 6 months requiring yet-more longterm untested vaccine shots. I am interested in the polio vaccine, or any COVID vaccine that's sterilizing.
I don't really want exposure to the real estate market. I put every tax-advantaged dollar that I can into index funds. I hate it, but I don't have a better option as a retirement vehicle. I figure if the stock market is down in 2040 from today's market, we have a lot bigger problems going on in the world than just my retirement. Should have invested in Glocks, Brownings, and ammo. Which I am, but not for that purpose, but rather home defense. When I finally own a home that is.
Covid and flu vaccines save lives in vast numbers, perfect or not, but the capacity to have a sense of responsibility beyond your own life isn't equally distributed in our society so I do see and understand your point of view here.
Still, this is very confusing reasoning. Like refusing to use the seatbelt in your car because the car doesn't have side impact airbags.
You're likely making a bad bet by holding on to cash. The inflation and low rates are doing their job for the most part by driving investment and spending, and you're swimming against the current by doing exactly what you're not supposed to be doing: hoarding cash.
> 5) Vaccine mandate job losses. Supply.
We're already back to full employment. These threats of en masse departures haven't really materialized, the few who haven't caved are just helping newer employment market entrants by offering up some nice safe jobs.