Winnipeg Free Press By: Barbara Bowes Opinion Sixteen crazy months and counting. Many of us start each day listening to or reading about COVID-19 cases and vaccine statistics. Are they up or down? Next, we turn our attention to the status of restrictions. Can we go to a restaurant? Can we meet up with friends or have a family gathering? Can we all get back to the physical workplace? Just what can we do? Some people are faring well. Others are not. It shouldn’t be a surprise that research studies have discovered a parallel sickness to the pandemic: Burnout. While this illness may have started as anxiety, the length of the pandemic and the daily good news and bad news has worn people down to the point of burnout. One research author referred to it as a "tsunami of employee strain."