> Whatever the intentions behind these decisions, they were the final straw for the many health-care workers who told me that they left medicine less because of

> Whatever the intentions behind these decisions, they were the final straw for the many health-care workers who told me that they left medicine less because of COVID-19 itself and more because of how their institutions acted. “I’ve been a nurse 45 years and I’ve never seen this level of disaffection between clinicians and their employers,” Brogan told me. The same is true across almost every sector of the U.S. Record-breaking numbers of Americans left their jobs this April—and then again in July and August. This “Great Resignation,” as my colleague Derek Thompson wrote, “is really an expression of optimism that says, We can do better.” It looks like there is a growing resentment between the various economic classes and it's starting to show up almost everywhere. Interesting times.