[Sgt_Schultze]

I didn’t realize that when you’re out sick, you are considered unemployed for the purpose of the federal jobs report. That sounds kind of sketchy.

[rlmorel]

I did not know that either.

I didn’t read the article, I confess, but...they have been trying vainly to trumpet employment numbers in the recent past, saying they have created more jobs than any administration in history. (No kidding-I really did hear the administration make that claim recently)

They have, I am pretty certain, some thing about people who have been out of work longer than a certain period of time are not counted towards the unemployment numbers, and these numbers won’t be able to leverage that, so they are looking for other means to explain the “strange” job numbers, such as COVID that is keeping people out of work.

Just guessing.