[antiSingularity]

You mean, sick with that disease that's asymptomatic some huge proportion of the time? And has very little effect on most working-age people?

[nicoburns]

I'm 28, and I'd say a good proportion of my (similarly aged) friends in London (say half) have had covid bad enough that they were off work and doing very little for at least a week by this point. And not everyone of working age is that young (and the older people are often the most experienced). Relatives in their 40s and 50s have often had it worse for several weeks and only able to work for some of that time due to working from home. Fewer of them seem to have gotten it, but that only seems to be because they were more careful about isolating and got the vaccine sooner.