here were some spooky data points in the latest jobs number. The headline was worrying enough: only 194,000 new jobs added, which is the slowest pace of job growth this year. It feels like an emergent recession, not that we ever left the last one created by government shutdowns. In addition, we are nowhere near where we are supposed to be in terms of labor participation. The public-school sector actually lost workers; after 20 months of upheaval, many people have either moved on or dropped out. How it happened that “progressives” would have presided over such deep damage to the crown jewel of their historical achievement cries out for explanation. Many women still can’t go back to work because they are still caring for kids who have no school. Hospitality keeps raising wages but can’t get new workers. The labor status of black men has been deeply damaged with nary a word of protest from people for whom this subject has been of primary interest. This same group is now being excluded from participation in the public life of several major cities on grounds of vaccination status. We are two years into this nonsense with no end in sight. Mass firings are also a factor. Large companies are dumping employees who are refusing the vaccine, even though there is still no law in place that orders them to do so. Joe Biden thinks this is just great. That’s basically what he said in a press conference. “When you see headlines and reports of mass firings, and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story,” he said. “United went from 59% of their employees [vaccinated] to 99%…” Right, they fired 600 workers (they are now filing lawsuits) and he said this is fine because now the remaining workers have the vaccine due to force. Remember when the “left” cared about the plight of workers? No more. Meanwhile, New York City continues to lose workers and businesses, and now its health-care sector is under pressure from furloughs and firings due to vaccine refusal. Biden still seems genuinely under the impression that the vaccine stops infection and spread, which it clearly does not. An important study of 68 nations and thousands of counties in the US shows no discernible relationship between vaccine compliance and contracting Covid-19. It possibly protects against severe outcomes but the risks of that are very low for any healthy person under 70 but really you have to get the average age of dying before the risks become real. It only makes sense for that group to get the vaccine but it makes equal sense for everyone else to think about the risks of the shot itself. Regardless, the firings over vaccine non-compliance are taking place in all areas of the American economy, not just the public sector but in technology, medicine, and academia. Doctors are being hounded by medical boards for failing to repeat the line that they are being told by the government. We’ve never seen such heavy-handed intervention in the medical sector. It feels like a purge, backed by censorship. As for hospitality, the whole industry is seriously hurting because it cannot recruit workers from other lines of production, or out of their now government-paid couch-potato lives. It’s no wonder: these people don’t want to wear masks all day, barely being able to breathe and looking like total serfs and idiots. This is surely a major factor. Regardless, have a look at the big picture. Three million people are missing from the labor rolls. Just gone.