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Editorial: Summer is almost over, but COVID's impact on the workforce remains

Boats come and go on Labor Day Monday, Sept.3, 2018, at Gainesville Marina on Lake Lanier to finish the long holiday weekend. - photo by Scott Rogers

09042018 LABOR 3.jpg — Boats come and go on Labor Day Monday, Sept.3, 2018, at Gainesville Marina on Lake Lanier to finish the long holiday weekend. - photo by Scott Rogers

A year ago, as we entered the Labor Day weekend, we were deep into the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic and anxiously looking forward to the vaccines we thought would allow us to move past the worst of the deadly disease and return to something approximating normal routines.