Amusement parks and hospitality industry face worker shortage

I’m perfectly comfortable not working and sitting at home doing nothing.
I should probably also say I’ve been doing that since 2011, so maybe I’m not the best example...

I do it every summer.

I had decided to retire when I reached the mandatory minimum hours of service to qualify for the pension with the university. It happened to coincide six months past my 66th birthday. It also happened in the midst of the pandemic. I pulled the pin in February of this year, Social Security gave me the option of either starting my payments in Feb, or retroactive from my birthday (at a slightly reduced amount). The first payment was six months of benefits in one payment. I now get my regular SS retirement payment, plus my university pension, which combined with Social Security is the same as what I was netting when I was working.

There were and are a lot of people out there in similar situations, who were working when the pandemic started, who are not going back to work...

I guess we'll see if this changes anything.

Gov. Mike DeWine is rejecting federal unemployment aid, cutting off extra $300 weekly to jobless workers, starting June 26

Cedar Point has been forced to close some days in June due to lack of staffing (see other news thread). I've been searching various seasonal park calendars and pretty much no one is open any later than 8PM most days in June.

Canada's Wonderland still appears to have no timeline for opening. Are there any other parks that have yet to re-open at all? Season passes for CW have been extended another year thru 2022.