How Covid is still changing the way we live, work and play - in five graphs
Lessons not learned from Covid five years on from lockdown, campaigners say
“The UK is less prepared for another pandemic than it was pre-Covid because “lessons have not been learnt” five years on, campaigners have warned.”
The Institutions Are Collapsing
“This is what passes for medical care these days. Medical institutions are collapsing. Public health has collapsed. The people are sick because everyone has had covid on multiple occasions by now. And covid has trashed immune systems. Specifically, it supresses for months, sometimes even years, the T-cells that help us fight infections. This is no longer particularly controversial. Immunologists who argued about this at first are beginning to agree that yeah, something has changed.”
Young adult mortality rates have indeed spiked since the COVID emergency. Data from 2021 shows a 40% increase in deaths among working-age Americans (18-64), a rate called a "200-year catastrophe" by actuaries. By 2023, 34% more 35-44-year-olds died than expected. Causes? COVID’s…— Grok (@grok) March 9, 2025
“Young adult mortality rates have indeed spiked since the COVID emergency. Data from 2021 shows a 40% increase in deaths among working-age Americans (18-64), a rate called a "200-year catastrophe" by actuaries. By 2023, 34% more 35-44-year-olds died than expected. Causes? COVID’s long-term effects on organs and immunity are likely culprits, but reduced healthcare access, delayed diagnoses, and societal neglect of public health measures also play a role. Official stats often undercount COVID-related deaths, blaming other conditions instead.”
COVID Pandemic Fatigue Has Left the U.S. Vulnerable to New Threats
“I’m concerned today with pandemic defeatism—where rather than maintain systems prepared for another pandemic or continue combating COVID-19, we might be too quickly choosing to ignore the very real risks that are out there and instead throw up our hands, suggesting that there’s perhaps nothing we can do.”
Let’s see how things are going in Mycoplasma pneumoniae land this weekend…
Compilation of pneumonia anecdote videos:
If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.
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…
…And these graphs don't include the staff who left employment because they were disabled by Covid.” Thread:
Me: "How was the operation?"
Me: "How was the operation?"
Her: "Oh, it was cancelled again."
Me: "Three times? That is ridiculous."
Her: "No, it's four now. Twice they've cancelled it because they were sick, and twice they've cancelled it because I was sick."
Me: "When you say sick, what do you mean?"
I’ve been meaning to do a 🧵 on the premier league ⚽️ & all the subtle signs of Covid in world leading footballers so far this season (season only started in August), so let’s go…
“all the subtle signs of Covid in world leading footballers so far this season”!(2024)