Oh yes this will be the excuse for anything bad through 2024 I'm sure. "We are still seeing the after effects from the downturn due to COVID" "The Lingering effects from COVID are still out there in the market" or some such. It's a convenient excuse an they'd be stupid not to do it probably.I'm sure they'll just say "it only looks bad because of covid." People eat that shit up.
But as I pointed out, we essentially recovered economically in the summer of 2020. Shit shouldn't look so bad YOY anymore.
In my day it was just called bullshit."transitory" is the word for this week's drinking game.