If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.
This is the staff absence rate for the seventh largest employer in the world.
See the consistency of the absence rate leading up to the pandemic...
Look at how it changed in 2020.
And see where it's going *now*.
When you break it down by month. You get this.
Pre-covid, this variation is your classic northern hemisphere seasonal infection cycle.
It's annual.
Peak in January most of the time, sometimes a month earlier, sometimes a month later.
Trough in May most of the time, sometimes a month earlier or later.
Since then... chaos.
Peaks of sickness absence in April, January, March, July, December, and when's the next one going to peak?
And troughs in March, August, May, September...
You know what these all correlate with?
WAVES AND TROUGHS OF FECKING COVID INFECTIONS.
And meanwhile, the troughs never drop as low as before.
In fact, the BEST absence rate of the last two years is worse than the worst of three of the 8 years leading up to the pandemic...
But the most recent trough?
It's worse than SEVEN of the EIGHT *peaks* pre-pandemic.
You want to fix the NHS, @wesstreeting?
Fix Covid, you mewling dewflap.
Oh yeah.
And these graphs don't include the staff who left employment because they were disabled by Covid.
And it doesn't include the staff who were killed by Covid.
note: all of this data is from the NHS.
Just do a search for 'nhs sickness absence report'.
It's all there.
Oh yeah.
And there are people stupid enough to call this bit 'the pandemic'.
😂
oh yeah too:
and the best point of the 12 month rolling sick rate in the last three years is TWENTY PERCENT WORSE THAN THE TREND BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.
Why?
BECAUSE WE ARE *DURING COVID NOW*.
Oh yeah three... ambulance staff...
Ambulance staff did peak at SIXTY PERCENT worse sickness absence rates in summer (SUMMER) 2022.
They're currently at TWENTY FIVE PERCENT WORSE than the pre-pandemic trend.
Again, that doesn't include the paramedics disabled by catching Covid.
Or the ones it killed.
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Some simple science that everyone should learn:
Masks with FFP2 or N95 rating trap particles by using the electrostatic properties of the fibres in the mask.
They don't catch things like a net.
They catch things *like a magnet* - except not just metal objects. Anything tiny.
There's a bullshit bit of disinformation going round that these masks can't trap viruses because viruses are too small.
That's just wrong. It's like claiming that planes can't fly because they're not birds.
It's just wrong on so many levels.
The people who claim that masks can't trap particles that small are either:
ignorant
or
malicious
"Why you are vulnerable to other infections after Corona....
More and more people are reporting that they are constantly ill after recovering from a corona infection. One possible cause for this could be an immune system weakened by Covid-19..."
"an infection with SARS-CoV-2 may still be more problematic than previously thought, because it could trigger a long-lasting immune deficiency that makes you susceptible to other diseases."
"One indication of this are reports of people who, after recovering from a corona infection, immediately catch a cold or even get sick several times in a row. The explanation for this may be an immune deficiency triggered by covid, which could possibly last for several months."
Let me go first:
That parents took the word of proven liars that their kids couldn't catch Covid.
Then when the kids caught Covid, the parents continued to believe the proven liars that the kids couldn't spread Covid...
Then when the kids spread Covid, the parents continued to believe the proven liars that the kids couldn't be harmed by Covid.
And then when the kids were harmed by Covid, the parents continued to believe the word of proven liars that kids needed to catch Covid to build immunity.