That is not what I'm talking about, there is always a big churn in the industry, the due to the Pandemic is more because local councils are not recognising that they need to act faster to licence drivers. Drivers can be waiting up to a year to be licensed. The pandemic hit numbers for sure but it wasn't just because drivers found new jobs, many just plain and simple retired any lots of drivers with roots abroad just went home to be with their families but like I said that isn't the issue.
Local councils are still working as if we are in lockdown in many places. Our local council only has 8 slots for new driver appointments a week because the staff that need to meet drivers face to face in a meeting that the council insist on are working from home and are showing little sign of changing this. Our local council is one of the largest in terms of taxi driver numbers. What the council is doing is quite frankly ludicrous.
Also, Uber isn't cheap that has always been a fallacy. A fallacy that lost $6billion dollars in the first quarter of this year, That's 6 times its usual loss