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>To problems connected to the back and neck, with some theories of the increase in home working contributing to that
Nah, Amazon warehouse.
Blaming it on ‘post pandemic anxiety’ and ‘neuroskeletal disorders’ is hilarious.
The sheer effort to avoid acknowledging Covid/Long Covid is still decimating us is admirable. Until proper funding is thrown into treating post viral conditions the number is just going to keep climbing as you can develop LC or ME/CFS or POTS on your 2nd or 3rd Covid infection.
I’d be out of work too if I hadn’t secured a fully remote data entry job before I got sick. If this job dries up I won’t be able to do anything else because my Covid infection last summer has left me exhausted 24/7, adrenaline dumps, erratic HR and brain fog/drunk sensations. Previously healthy 28 year old who used to work 60 hour weeks in the city centre now struggles to do basic copy and pasting from his bed.
There’s been tons of scientific papers published showing how Covid increases the risk of diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, mental health disorders, POTS, MECFS, vision issues, fibromyalga, brain damage etc and we have a baseline of 1.1M active infections in the UK and not a single mitigation in place but if you dare ask someone to wear a mask in hospital you get accused of being a hypochondriac and asking them to ‘give up their freedom’ lol.
Oh and saying this is because of the rise in people working from home is utter bollocks. More propaganda to get people back to the office. You know what’s bad for your health? Spending the majority of your life travelling to the city to do a job you can do from home and also run the risk of multiple Covid infections while you’re at it.
I wonder how many are of “retirement age”?
This is the future.
Yet more proof that properly funding the NHS is not only a moral imperative, but it also makes the most financial sense! Think how much productivity has been lost from our economy because the people in charge of the country care more about lining their own pockets than doing whats best for it…
Back and neck pain caused by sitting – regardless of the desk being located at home or in an office can be managed by; having a decent chair, doing mobility exercises & making sure you’re getting up and moving during the day. Not sure how “possibly due to home working” and where the desk is physically located can be used as an argument.
Yeah I just stopped working due to an illness. Not gonna be getting a penny from the government for at least a few months because I live with a partner who makes £15,000 a year which according to them is enough to support 2 people.
I’m sure they’ll still call me a scrounger or some shit though, lol.
After 13 years of Tory reforms and cuts to health funding it is hardly surprising. The government is blaming COVID, but the numbers were going up before the pandemic.
The issue is people cannot get basic treatment, resulting in complications that need more extensive treatment. I’m currently waiting on a physio referral due to a knee problem. After two months my referral is still being processed/assessed. During this time my knee is getting worse. It may be beyond physio by the time that I actually get see one.
A healthy population is a productive one.
>growth in regular pay, which excludes bonuses, was 6.7% in the first three months of the year, but when price rises are taken into account, regular pay fell by 2%
>pay growth in the public sector was 5.6%, which was the highest rate since 2003
If public sector wage growth is below regular pay that means the % which the wages fell after Price Rises is greater right?
i.e. they are not 2% worse off, they are 2.5/3(??) % because thier margin is smaller
Covid legacy and younger people realising that they wont be getting decently paid jobs until they are 25 might have something to do with it.
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Yes because if I was working in a commercial office, I’d have no problems with my neck. It’s entirely down to location. Fuck off, man. The chair I sit on cost what most companies would spend on about ten office chairs.
The mental health of this country is in the gutter. I worked in an office recently before leaving and I’d say on average, four or five people would be having anxiety or full on panic attacks every month. The job was slightly stressful but unheard of before Covid. And the sheer amount of colds and stuff going around during warmer months was unreal.
Edit: not to say working conditions were great pre Covid but that 18 month period battered so many people mentally. Especially people with long standing health conditions that were worried they could possibly die if they caught Covid. Now the backlog at the nhs has just doubled down on this. People need medical care and it’s just not readily available. A friend of mines partner got some abnormal tests back and she’s being seen in February 2024. Crazy
I wonder why fewer people are fighting fit when you can’t get a dentist or doctor, you’ve had covid twice and live in a damp home you can’t afford to heat.
People are really sleeping on long Covid. It’s definitely playing a big part in those numbers.
yup, i’m one of them. got sick with a rare neurological disease at age 16 and will likely never be well enough to work. i’m genuinely terrified about how i’m meant to survive when my parents pass away.
That’s my plan as I’m not working until retirement age, I’m doing my 37 years and that’s it.
I think it’s fair to say that the modern work norms are incredibly unhealthy. What does a working day look like for the average Brit?
– 8 hours sat at a desk, likely not with an ergonomic monitor, chair or desk (particularly for people wfh on laptops)
– nowhere near enough movement during the day
– highly processed foods
– go home from work and watch more screens from the couch
I’m not shaming anyone, I do all this too. We just have to recognise how bad it is for us. 20 years ago it was common for office workers to play sports (tennis, swimming, whatever) on their lunch breaks. If we won’t adopt these behaviours individually we may have to look at a more nanny state approach of incentivising more active lifestyles.
All these people Ill and all these unexplained deaths…I wonder what is behind all this?
All these people Ill and all these unexplained deaths…I wonder what is behind all this?
It has to be remarked that many of the people doing the assessments and checking evidence are being paid low wages too. So these meetings are a piece of piss. Claimants know what to say, and the advisor doesn’t give too much of a fuck. It has been going on for years.
Anyone that dismisses MECFS (LC) is the Devil.
The same people Dismissed AIDS until a biomarker opened their empty brains
The biomarker will come
But feeling fcked with no positive test results is enough of a biomarker for now.
I WONDER IF IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH ALL THE TERRIBLE WORKING CONDITIONS AND PLASTIC IN THE FOOD AND WATER
All these people Ill and all these unexplained deaths…I wonder what is behind all this?
Damn imagine if we had some sort of social healthcare we all paid into, that would be crazy wouldn’t it?
Lots of talk of long covid but the excess deaths are not due to that.
I’m not surprised.
Surviving covid and enduring long covid have ruined a lot of people’s careers & daily functionality.
Resulting in limited savings available, drastic reduction in monthly incomes & standards of living, decimated credit histories, perilous finances and a struggle to obtain private rental accomodation.
Who would’ve thought destroying the NHS would lead to more poorly people – didn’t see that coming!
on a personal note every time i hear a moan about the NHS i ask how they voted – if you voted blue then you voted for this so own it.
I think the amount of people on the blag has also increased. I’m not surprised. Why kill yourself working all hours and using food banks so you can help the 1% get a little bit richer.
Fuck working for the 1%. I’ve opted out of working and won’t be returning until the profits are shared.
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More government attacks on the disabled and sick coming in 3… 2…
>To problems connected to the back and neck, with some theories of the increase in home working contributing to that
Nah, Amazon warehouse.
Blaming it on ‘post pandemic anxiety’ and ‘neuroskeletal disorders’ is hilarious.
The sheer effort to avoid acknowledging Covid/Long Covid is still decimating us is admirable. Until proper funding is thrown into treating post viral conditions the number is just going to keep climbing as you can develop LC or ME/CFS or POTS on your 2nd or 3rd Covid infection.
I’d be out of work too if I hadn’t secured a fully remote data entry job before I got sick. If this job dries up I won’t be able to do anything else because my Covid infection last summer has left me exhausted 24/7, adrenaline dumps, erratic HR and brain fog/drunk sensations. Previously healthy 28 year old who used to work 60 hour weeks in the city centre now struggles to do basic copy and pasting from his bed.
There’s been tons of scientific papers published showing how Covid increases the risk of diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, mental health disorders, POTS, MECFS, vision issues, fibromyalga, brain damage etc and we have a baseline of 1.1M active infections in the UK and not a single mitigation in place but if you dare ask someone to wear a mask in hospital you get accused of being a hypochondriac and asking them to ‘give up their freedom’ lol.
Oh and saying this is because of the rise in people working from home is utter bollocks. More propaganda to get people back to the office. You know what’s bad for your health? Spending the majority of your life travelling to the city to do a job you can do from home and also run the risk of multiple Covid infections while you’re at it.
I wonder how many are of “retirement age”?
This is the future.
Yet more proof that properly funding the NHS is not only a moral imperative, but it also makes the most financial sense! Think how much productivity has been lost from our economy because the people in charge of the country care more about lining their own pockets than doing whats best for it…
Back and neck pain caused by sitting – regardless of the desk being located at home or in an office can be managed by; having a decent chair, doing mobility exercises & making sure you’re getting up and moving during the day. Not sure how “possibly due to home working” and where the desk is physically located can be used as an argument.
Yeah I just stopped working due to an illness. Not gonna be getting a penny from the government for at least a few months because I live with a partner who makes £15,000 a year which according to them is enough to support 2 people.
I’m sure they’ll still call me a scrounger or some shit though, lol.
After 13 years of Tory reforms and cuts to health funding it is hardly surprising. The government is blaming COVID, but the numbers were going up before the pandemic.
The issue is people cannot get basic treatment, resulting in complications that need more extensive treatment. I’m currently waiting on a physio referral due to a knee problem. After two months my referral is still being processed/assessed. During this time my knee is getting worse. It may be beyond physio by the time that I actually get see one.
A healthy population is a productive one.
>growth in regular pay, which excludes bonuses, was 6.7% in the first three months of the year, but when price rises are taken into account, regular pay fell by 2%
>pay growth in the public sector was 5.6%, which was the highest rate since 2003
If public sector wage growth is below regular pay that means the % which the wages fell after Price Rises is greater right?
i.e. they are not 2% worse off, they are 2.5/3(??) % because thier margin is smaller
Covid legacy and younger people realising that they wont be getting decently paid jobs until they are 25 might have something to do with it.
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Yes because if I was working in a commercial office, I’d have no problems with my neck. It’s entirely down to location. Fuck off, man. The chair I sit on cost what most companies would spend on about ten office chairs.
The mental health of this country is in the gutter. I worked in an office recently before leaving and I’d say on average, four or five people would be having anxiety or full on panic attacks every month. The job was slightly stressful but unheard of before Covid. And the sheer amount of colds and stuff going around during warmer months was unreal.
Edit: not to say working conditions were great pre Covid but that 18 month period battered so many people mentally. Especially people with long standing health conditions that were worried they could possibly die if they caught Covid. Now the backlog at the nhs has just doubled down on this. People need medical care and it’s just not readily available. A friend of mines partner got some abnormal tests back and she’s being seen in February 2024. Crazy
I wonder why fewer people are fighting fit when you can’t get a dentist or doctor, you’ve had covid twice and live in a damp home you can’t afford to heat.
People are really sleeping on long Covid. It’s definitely playing a big part in those numbers.
or the ‘men’ are
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/16/british-men-making-thousands-by-posing-as-fathers-in-citizenship-scam
yup, i’m one of them. got sick with a rare neurological disease at age 16 and will likely never be well enough to work. i’m genuinely terrified about how i’m meant to survive when my parents pass away.
That’s my plan as I’m not working until retirement age, I’m doing my 37 years and that’s it.
I think it’s fair to say that the modern work norms are incredibly unhealthy. What does a working day look like for the average Brit?
– 8 hours sat at a desk, likely not with an ergonomic monitor, chair or desk (particularly for people wfh on laptops)
– nowhere near enough movement during the day
– highly processed foods
– go home from work and watch more screens from the couch
I’m not shaming anyone, I do all this too. We just have to recognise how bad it is for us. 20 years ago it was common for office workers to play sports (tennis, swimming, whatever) on their lunch breaks. If we won’t adopt these behaviours individually we may have to look at a more nanny state approach of incentivising more active lifestyles.
All these people Ill and all these unexplained deaths…I wonder what is behind all this?
All these people Ill and all these unexplained deaths…I wonder what is behind all this?
It has to be remarked that many of the people doing the assessments and checking evidence are being paid low wages too. So these meetings are a piece of piss. Claimants know what to say, and the advisor doesn’t give too much of a fuck. It has been going on for years.
Anyone that dismisses MECFS (LC) is the Devil.
The same people Dismissed AIDS until a biomarker opened their empty brains
The biomarker will come
But feeling fcked with no positive test results is enough of a biomarker for now.
I WONDER IF IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH ALL THE TERRIBLE WORKING CONDITIONS AND PLASTIC IN THE FOOD AND WATER
All these people Ill and all these unexplained deaths…I wonder what is behind all this?
Damn imagine if we had some sort of social healthcare we all paid into, that would be crazy wouldn’t it?
Lots of talk of long covid but the excess deaths are not due to that.
I’m not surprised.
Surviving covid and enduring long covid have ruined a lot of people’s careers & daily functionality.
Resulting in limited savings available, drastic reduction in monthly incomes & standards of living, decimated credit histories, perilous finances and a struggle to obtain private rental accomodation.
Who would’ve thought destroying the NHS would lead to more poorly people – didn’t see that coming!
on a personal note every time i hear a moan about the NHS i ask how they voted – if you voted blue then you voted for this so own it.
I think the amount of people on the blag has also increased. I’m not surprised. Why kill yourself working all hours and using food banks so you can help the 1% get a little bit richer.
Fuck working for the 1%. I’ve opted out of working and won’t be returning until the profits are shared.
That’s me retired then.