Workers are putting in fewer hours than before the pandemic around the world as the number of sick days surge, according to a new global report. The Telegraph has the story.
People are clocking in fewer hours on average in all countries apart from those with low incomes, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), after a “significant” rise in sick days.
Sick days in the U.K. rose by 36% between 2019 and 2022, according to the report. A record 185.6 million working days were lost because of sickness or injury in 2022, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has previously said.
A surge in ill health has been blamed on long waiting lists for NHS treatment and a rise in mental health issues post-pandemic, as well as back problems.
The ILO report shows the issues are not unique to Britain. In Germany, working days lost to ill health rose by 38% between 2019 and 2022, while sick days surged by 72% in Estonia.
Deteriorating health could be behind the fall in average working hours globally, the ILO said, blaming ageing populations and long-term impacts from Covid.The report said: “Long Covid, affecting around 20% of those infected by the virus, according to the World Health Organisation, may be having a significant impact on activity measures of labour markets.”
Workers in some sectors like healthcare have reduced their hours after suffering from stress and burnout during the pandemic, the ILO said.
The agency added that the impact of pandemic-era policies such as furlough were “fading only slowly and have prevented a faster recovery of average hours worked”.
Lingering effects of furlough are keeping people attached to jobs, with people sticking with their employers regardless of how many working hours they are offered.
Long Covid or Long Vaccine?
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If we are going to ignore ‘vanishingly small’ contributions to climate change, the UK is completely off the hook. Turn up the central heating! (I wouldn’t go out of my way to a shop that was advertising a 0.8% sale).
We in this country have forced ourselves in law to reduce emissions of CO2. If we do not reduce them we are breaking the law and can actually be sued. How insane is this? Who in their right mind does something as irresponsible and damaging as this to its own people? The Net Zero Amendment was waved through parliament with not a single question asked. No debate and no vote. It was simply a Climate Coup. The entire Political Class of hand wringing parasites taking their instructions from the UN and WEF who in turn are controlled by the Central Banks are in control and we have no say in it. The 120 Trillion Dollar Decarbonisation Scam is set to make billions for Bankers who control the money supply and Politicians have no choice but to do their bidding —–New World Order SCAM
entire Political Class of hand wringing parasites
Beautifully said.
Net zero was written in to law after lobbying from NGOs who are funded by the government, then the government gets sued by these same NGOs using tax payers money. The whole thing is government policy, dreamed up in Davos. The Rockefellers alone have set up around 1000 of these climate change NGOs. The World’s elites are the people in change.
“breaking the law”
I suggest politicians grow a pair and where international law is concerned tell the law makers to F. right off.
Fine us? No can do, we’re broke.
Plus they want to ban my Ventolin inhaler. They are nuts.
See my comment about this. Here’s a link to the pros and cons of inhaler types.
https://use-inhalers.com/comparative-studies-on-mdi-and-dpi
It would appear that Aerosol or MDI types are cheaper, last longer in use and are more reliable. The Dry powder inhalers or DPI types have a short in use shelf life, mine is 30 days. They are more difficult to use, can be easily contaminated and are a nuisance.
DPI types are typically more expensive. Ironically the mainstay of reliever inhalers is Ventolin, which is MDI aerosol and as I mentioned the patent appears to expire in 2028. Coincident!
Green lunacy writ large. Like good Malthusians, Planet Savers of course think there are too many of us, so noble Planet Savers are unlikely to be personally troubled by experiencing or witnessing the pain of childbirth. Let those deviant birthing mothers suffer without recourse to that evil laughing gas and air.
On a point of information, my understanding is that nitrous oxide is no longer an anaesthetic of choice for dentistry, being superseded by safer intravenous anaesthetics:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953638/pdf/main.pdf
“Deaths associated with GA for dentistry 1948 – 2016: the evolution of a policy for general anaesthesia (GA) for dental treatment.”
Where intavenous anaesthesia is contra-indicated, the gaseous anaesthetic fluothane becomes the agent of choice – another no, no for Planet Savers intent on conserving the Holy Ozone Layer. The civilised world has been here before…
https://youtu.be/Z9amZ8McoBA?t=60
…Beware indeed, “the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister by the lights of perverted (climate) science.”
The Global Gauleiters must not prevail. Resist!
Well, thanks to the covid vaccines, not many people will be giving birth anyway.
Perhaps it’s all part of a plan?
Water vapour is considered (by some) as the most important greenhouse gas. So by the same ignorant vilification as anaesthetic gasses we should stop boiling water for cups of tea or coffee?
Definitely. And oxygen is part of the fictitious ‘greenhouse effect’. Better ban that too.
Nitrous Oxide doesn’t include any carbon – are the Climate zealots now fingering Nitrogen and oxygen? Let’s just ban the whole atmosphere!
And all sensate life on earth is made up primarily of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphorous.
Can’t be too cautious when Saving the Planet is at stake. Ban these deviant elements with immediate effect, which also gets rid of that troublemaker dihydrogen oxide. Rocks shall rule.
And Slabhead Starmerfuehrer will be their leader!
Despite 78% of the atmosphere is composed of nitrogen (about 4,290,000 billion metric tons) global warmists are convinced that humans cause harmful nitrogen pollution of it. As MTF, while he was still spreading his nonsense here, once stated (albeit worded in a less transparent way) about CO₂, the problem is that human-generated CO₂ is not natural CO₂. Obviously, human ’emitted’ nitrogen is not natural nitrogen either: It’s atoms with the wrong colour (or maybe the wrong haircut?) which are very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects, to use one of the boilerplate warnings woketurds print on absolutely everything from shoe polish (only brand-name shoe polish, mind you, the shop own-brands are apparently not important enough) to vaping devices.
106 km = 66 miles
The environmental effect of your anaesthetic is about the same as driving a small car at an average 66 mph for the same duration.
Ban ambulances! /sarc
all complex molecules act as greenhouse gases and the more complex the molecule, the bigger the effect. This is because the covalent bonds are never still but bend, stretch and wobble up and down releasing energy by collision with neighbouring gas molecules. The more bonds there are, the more bending, stretching and wobbling goes on. Consequently, substituting a relatively simple molecule like NO2, containing three atoms, for a complex one like methoxyfluorane, containing a dozen, makes no sense whatsoever (but we’re used to that).
Yet another reason to disband the NHS.
I think it’s an EU regulation.
This is beyond silly.
The figures in table 1 are so laughingly small as to be meaningless.
Add to that this statement from the paragraph above the table ‘the temperature increases that might be’
Clearly yet another ’emperors new clothes’ fear story
In the EU they are now restricting the use of aerosol inhalers such as ventolin, it’s a very widely used bronchodilator for respiratory problems. They would normally supply enough for six months between checkups but now you only get one and have to request another if needed at a later date. I understand they want to phase them out in favour of powdered inhalers.
I did some checking and it looks like the patent for ventolin expires in 2028….
Everyday I wake up there is one more piece of disturbing news about the UK. In addition to all the bad news, look up. Your skies are full of thick grey clouds month after month. A clear sky is quickly covered in chem trails. And yet…..I do not know one Brit who believes in weather manipulation, Geoengineering, chem trails. Probably the same millions of people who gratefully took the most dangerous experimental biological (mRNA covid vaxxes). Geoengineering Watch.net
By “chem trails”, do you mean con trails from aircraft?
These climate scam members are all part of a racketeering operation. They should all be arrested and held responsible for the damages they are doing to society and people’s lives. This is only happening in rich western countries where tax money is readily available and people are complacent enough to allow it.
This fits nicely with the theory that the net zero scare is all part of a scheme to immiserate and ultimately reduce the population.