3 Toronto reports: all showing people getting sicker.
First up:
2023 Occupational Health and Safety Report, City of Toronto.
Graphs show a marked increase in lost time severity rate and WSIB invoiced costs, particularly starting 2022.
"The costs associated with claims for
mental/emotional illnesses or disorders represented the largest portion of costs incurred in 2023."
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/gg/bgrd/backgroundfile-250009.pdf
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I was accosted by a COVID denier last night at a Christmas party. He said “No worse than the flu” and I just curled up inside and said nothing. To my surprise, he started to back track and said “I could be wrong” silence and withdrawal works wonders People like to argue. I don’t. The kicker is - he is very vulnerable. He has had a heart transplant! #COVID
@mastodonmigration I’m imagining that many American voters have lost their faculties due to repeated bouts of Covid-19 and we are, now, entering an era reinforcing the results of that. Pretty dystopian… #covid #WTF #stupid
Many countries had lockdowns during the emergency phase of #Covid but we did not.
I doubt the debate over mitigation measures would have been different if we hadn't referred to closures as "lockdowns," but who knows?
This was a really cathartic watch. An incisive, documentary-length analysis of how we got to where we are with the forever plague, including the Koch Network's propaganda campaign and the betrayal of liberals who embraced the unscientific Great Barrington Declaration, all but desperate to underestimate the long-term health consequences of letting #covid rip:
It would be bad enough if #covid only fucked with one of these things (blood flow, metabolism, immune tolerance), but it fucks with all of them
I feel like I'm witnessing one of those angels from Evangelion, except the cosmic horror is a nanoscale swarm instead of a kaiju, and it maims more often than it kills outright. Absolutely biblical that an airborne virus can disguise itself as a cold and then take people apart like Jenga blocks
Long Covid is becoming a serious problem in Australia. Same is true in other countries.
#COVID #LongCovid https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/02/long-covid-symptoms-viruses-health-labour-australia/
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Day 8: last post on the adventures of Del and Omie who kept busy!
U.K.-based doctors, nurses and hospital porters with long COVID are suing the NHS for compensation, saying they were not given proper protection during the height of the pandemic and that their lives have been devastated by severe health complications. Context News explains more.
Day 7: going through older drawings but moving forward in time.. We’re in August 2022, Del and ‘Omie hooked up, which was followed by the inevitable (called BA)
Special shout-out to @violetblue for all of her great work getting the message out there regarding COVID (and other viruses).
Her work rightfully earned the top-spot in my "Pandemic" section of this year's "Great Reads of 2024" blog post.
You can check out her work here: https://www.patreon.com/violetblue
You can also see other recommended reading in my blog post here: https://securing.dev/posts/gread-reads-2024/
@COVID19_DISEASE I pulled this chart from somewhere a couple of years ago. It demonstrates with clarity how quickly an airborne disease can spread to the masses.
As we enter year six I get the sense that more people are coming around to the idea that #COVID isn't going away. Please share articles and ways to prevent infection on FB. Become part of the background noise for your friends, acquaintances and families. I think some of them are ready to listen.
We HAVE to get this info out of the echo chamber
A recently released map from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights areas across the country that experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases over Thanksgiving.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #covid19 #covid
https://www.newsweek.com/covid-data-today-thanksgiving-cdc-1997114
#tfw you email an athletically inclined relative to wish them a happy birthday and make a joke about how you spent your birthday lying in bed while they probably spent theirs doing something disgusting like hiking or rock-climbing, and they respond that well actually, they spent it in bed too because they're recovering from "probably #COVID" again and this time felt worse than the "handful of times" they had it previously.
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp