It’s almost as if allowing an illness that causes disability in 10-20% of cases, and increases the likelihood of other illnesses, to tear through the population unmitigated for years was a terrible idea.
Air purifiers in schools and other busy areas would be expensive but a great long term investment.
Turns out destroying the health service is bad for people’s health
Who knew
Just go on tik tok the amount of self inflicted illnesses such as obesity and they’re signed off getting loads of money.
I really like the German concept of Kur leave from work. Every 4 years the doctor will provide around 3 weeks of leave. Wish we had that here.
Yeah let’s send a load of sick people into the workforce so the workers can go off on the sick for a bit.
While the sick people are working, they can then get even more sick to really stimulate the national workforce morale.
Then when the workers that decided to have a rest on the sick come back, they actually end up being really really sick, that makes the sick people that went back to work DOUBLY sick. So then they go back on the sick.
Then the sick people are all nearly dead, and all the workers are all really sick, meanwhile we get knocked out early in a Euro or World Cup, have 11 unelected prime ministers, whom are all sick as a shit in their heads and we join in on another of Americas wars because we’re ‘special’ which the people ate sick of, and then w………….. oh wait……..
i have been telling this to ppl for years, thank god a news agency finally said it!
my own experience was that despite back pain strong enough to not able to sit for hour(necessary in desk jobs), as long as i can stand up and walk, it isn’t a big issue apparently in their eyes.
to the administration, please do not treat disorders like mine as mild thing, they really effect our work, subsequently effecting economy.
Not really a surprise when healthcare has gotten to a point where you’re just sat on waiting lists for years unless/until whatever is wrong with you becomes genuinely crippling. I know its because there just aren’t the resources any more to deal with the “wastage” of false positives and sorting out “malingerers” or whatever, but boy does it just make more work when something goes from acute to chronic after being basically ignored for 12+ months.
Lazy britain. How about not giving people 6 months paid sick leave for a headache
Major issue. As a GP I frequently get asked for long term sick notes, UC forms etc. There are genuine cases out there but a significant portion are people caught in limbo waiting for specialist treatment. A good example is vertebral disc prolapse and sciatica. Seriously disabling and can take years from diagnosis to surgery. A functioning healthcare system is conducive to a productive economy but we just don’t have that at the moment.
There are however a large proportion of lazy people claiming to be able to do no work at all. I would estimate 30% of long term sick cases I come qcross are complete bullshit.
In other words the media is preparing the population for another blood sacrifice of the disabled via benefit cuts + forcing the mentally ill into the capitalist hellscape.
A major cause of this is the NHS waiting lists. More than 6 months to see a specialist, and at least a year to get things rectified. In the meantime people waiting for treatment often experience symptoms which interfere with their work.
Another major factor is mental health problems caused by things like poor housing conditions, lack of disposable income for leisure and difficulty accessing services. The UK is generally becoming a harsh place to live for working people.
I have no issues with those who are genuinely sick or disabled, as far as I am concerned they actually need and deserve higher welfare payments.
However, this country is crippled by the workshy and the lazy. I work in a warehouse on the operations team, and we get to see all kinds in our line of work.
What I see consistently is that the younger generations simply do not want to work, no matter the wage. In my department it is possible to earn £33k a year with overtime just working in the warehouse, but we cannot get the staff.
In the factory as a whole there are 1500 workers, and there is a very noticeable lack of younger British workers. We do have younger workers, but they are all Polish, every single one, from the early twenties up until the mid-to-late thirties. British workers of the same age, are rarely seen.
Some of it is definitely a shifted baseline / perspective caused by furlough and WFH.
I studied as a mature student over Covid so had some work experience pre and post Covid. I’m all for better working conditions but it blows my mind how good some of my colleagues have it and don’t realise it.
It’s about time we crack down on companies that treat their staff like shit, zero duty of care, who cause or worsen many of these mental and psychical health issues in the first place.
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It’s almost as if allowing an illness that causes disability in 10-20% of cases, and increases the likelihood of other illnesses, to tear through the population unmitigated for years was a terrible idea.
Air purifiers in schools and other busy areas would be expensive but a great long term investment.
Turns out destroying the health service is bad for people’s health
Who knew
Just go on tik tok the amount of self inflicted illnesses such as obesity and they’re signed off getting loads of money.
I really like the German concept of Kur leave from work. Every 4 years the doctor will provide around 3 weeks of leave. Wish we had that here.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230228-the-german-clinics-for-burnt-out-parents
Yeah let’s send a load of sick people into the workforce so the workers can go off on the sick for a bit.
While the sick people are working, they can then get even more sick to really stimulate the national workforce morale.
Then when the workers that decided to have a rest on the sick come back, they actually end up being really really sick, that makes the sick people that went back to work DOUBLY sick. So then they go back on the sick.
Then the sick people are all nearly dead, and all the workers are all really sick, meanwhile we get knocked out early in a Euro or World Cup, have 11 unelected prime ministers, whom are all sick as a shit in their heads and we join in on another of Americas wars because we’re ‘special’ which the people ate sick of, and then w………….. oh wait……..
i have been telling this to ppl for years, thank god a news agency finally said it!
my own experience was that despite back pain strong enough to not able to sit for hour(necessary in desk jobs), as long as i can stand up and walk, it isn’t a big issue apparently in their eyes.
to the administration, please do not treat disorders like mine as mild thing, they really effect our work, subsequently effecting economy.
Not really a surprise when healthcare has gotten to a point where you’re just sat on waiting lists for years unless/until whatever is wrong with you becomes genuinely crippling. I know its because there just aren’t the resources any more to deal with the “wastage” of false positives and sorting out “malingerers” or whatever, but boy does it just make more work when something goes from acute to chronic after being basically ignored for 12+ months.
There’s an [infographic](https://www.mysurgerywebsite.co.uk/website/S70790/files/180306-Prostate-screening-numbers-BLOG.png) going round some medical circles that I think says it all. Don’t bother with PSA testing – It does save lives, but hey it also generates false-positives and we just don’t have the resources to deal with wasting it on producing a negative result!
E – Found the infographic for reference
Lazy britain. How about not giving people 6 months paid sick leave for a headache
Major issue. As a GP I frequently get asked for long term sick notes, UC forms etc. There are genuine cases out there but a significant portion are people caught in limbo waiting for specialist treatment. A good example is vertebral disc prolapse and sciatica. Seriously disabling and can take years from diagnosis to surgery. A functioning healthcare system is conducive to a productive economy but we just don’t have that at the moment.
There are however a large proportion of lazy people claiming to be able to do no work at all. I would estimate 30% of long term sick cases I come qcross are complete bullshit.
In other words the media is preparing the population for another blood sacrifice of the disabled via benefit cuts + forcing the mentally ill into the capitalist hellscape.
A major cause of this is the NHS waiting lists. More than 6 months to see a specialist, and at least a year to get things rectified. In the meantime people waiting for treatment often experience symptoms which interfere with their work.
Another major factor is mental health problems caused by things like poor housing conditions, lack of disposable income for leisure and difficulty accessing services. The UK is generally becoming a harsh place to live for working people.
I have no issues with those who are genuinely sick or disabled, as far as I am concerned they actually need and deserve higher welfare payments.
However, this country is crippled by the workshy and the lazy. I work in a warehouse on the operations team, and we get to see all kinds in our line of work.
What I see consistently is that the younger generations simply do not want to work, no matter the wage. In my department it is possible to earn £33k a year with overtime just working in the warehouse, but we cannot get the staff.
In the factory as a whole there are 1500 workers, and there is a very noticeable lack of younger British workers. We do have younger workers, but they are all Polish, every single one, from the early twenties up until the mid-to-late thirties. British workers of the same age, are rarely seen.
Some of it is definitely a shifted baseline / perspective caused by furlough and WFH.
I studied as a mature student over Covid so had some work experience pre and post Covid. I’m all for better working conditions but it blows my mind how good some of my colleagues have it and don’t realise it.
It’s about time we crack down on companies that treat their staff like shit, zero duty of care, who cause or worsen many of these mental and psychical health issues in the first place.