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Throughout the war period, service members had to leave their occupations and families, travel to one of 32 training camps scattered across the country and face the prospect of deploying overseas, perhaps never to return.

THE KEY TO COMBATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT CORONAVIRUS VACCINESCAMERON GIVENSFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Those numbers come from a new report out of California that shines a light on the shocking risk to covid-19 by occupation.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE WEARING N95 MASKS NOWJOSEPH G. ALLENJANUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST

He subsequently joined the British civil service — later joking that he “thought it would be a nice quiet occupation” — and served in India and Malaysia before he was posted in Canada.

JAMES CROSS, BRITISH DIPLOMAT KIDNAPPED BY QUEBEC SEPARATISTS, DIES AT 99 OF COVID-19EMILY LANGERJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Some states’ vaccine distribution plans are based entirely on age, occupation and other factors such as race or residential setting.

ALL OVERWEIGHT D.C. RESIDENTS WILL GET PRIORITY FOR THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE. EXPERTS ARE SKEPTICAL.JULIE ZAUZMERJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The resulting occupation of the Capitol was horrifying enough, but if MAGA paramilitaries had reached Congress before it was safely evacuated the day could easily have turned out incalculably worse.

THE RIGHT’S MESSAGE TO SILICON VALLEY: 'FREE SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE'DAVID FRENCHJANUARY 16, 2021TIME

Just as an air-traffic controller will naturally get what a colleague is dealing with, so might someone who shares your occupation or is experiencing the same stressors you do.

STAY CALM UNDER PRESSURE WITH LESSONS LEARNED IN THE WORLD’S MOST STRESSFUL CAREERSROB VERGERJANUARY 8, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE

Live-in domestic service was hard work, and it paid poorly, but at the time, it was one of the very few occupations open to women.

A SHOCKING 19TH-CENTURY CRIME REVEALS THE CONTINUED NEED FOR GENDER EQUALITYJULIE MILLERDECEMBER 27, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Decades of research has shown that people who use their personal contacts spend less time searching for jobs and end up in higher paying, more prestigious occupations.

THE YOUNG AND UNEMPLOYED NEED BETTER NETWORKSMATTHEWHEIMERDECEMBER 5, 2020FORTUNE

The study also only included adults who spent at least three hours out of the home daily and had occupations that did not require them to wear masks.

THAT NEW STUDY SAYING MASKS MIGHT NOT BE EFFECTIVE? IT HAS A FEW CAVEATS.KATE BAGGALEYNOVEMBER 20, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE

Plan on staying engaged in some occupation as long as possible.

YOUR 401(K) IS STILL LIKELY TO HAVE A BUMPY RIDE AFTER THE ELECTIONMICHELLE SINGLETARYNOVEMBER 9, 2020WASHINGTON POST

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