He asks: “Is the die-off responsible for the labor shortages we see everywhere?”

This die-off is not yet of a sufficient magnitude to account for the labor shortages. There are many reasons for untimely deaths to be on the rise. This is being arranged through multiple means and has been ongoing for a long time through degrading everything humans ingest and bombarding them with harmful electromagnetic frequencies and so on, many of which take time to do their worst and are more and more evident as time goes on. There are many disincentives for work, especially with continued government subsidies and support. There is a severe mind control manipulation to make people complacent and indolent when they could be more productive and a benefit to themselves, but simply are not motivated. Another large factor is the death toll from substance abuse and an even larger liability in corrupting a significant number of potential workers who find it more pleasurable to spend their time getting high and playing video games, and accept a severely restricted lifestyle from being economically depressed as long as they have their sources of pleasure.