Is the US Giving Up Way Too Soon on Pandemic Preparedness for the Future?

productivity growth is notoriously difficult to measure in the short term, right? That you do have these occasional big swings. Maybe nothing matters more, but I'm pretty optimistic about the future there. The other thing is just demographic trends generally, what's happening in terms of the aging of the workforce. Why is it? And how does this interact with the fact that labor force participation has not bounced back the way other part of the economy has bounced back?"