>It seems pretty serious and real when the real money and power institutions in the country are getting concerned.

or it's a convenient scapegoat to cover for their mismanagement of the economy as we deal with massive inflation and, by most common definitions, a recession

They're looking at the percent of people who have dropped out of the workforce for disability. It was steadily decreasing up until the pandemic and has now leveled out and might be increasing. That's bad at a macro level. Less people working, less output from the economy years from now. They weren't looking at the GDP right now or other recession indicators.