Google Translate: "Several media outlets reported that 70 people were affected. According to Condor, there were 290 passengers on board the Airbus A330neo aircraft with 310 seats. According to information from the dpa news agency, not all ambulances were needed, so many helpers left without having achieved anything." #aviation#sickness
"workplaces should have to legally provide #unlimited paid sick leave available immediately upon hire. the limits that #companies that even provide paid sick leave put on it is so fucked up. no one can control when they get sick, how often they get sick, or how long they are sick for, and they shouldn't have to suffer for the transgression of being ill.
"oh, but some #people might take advantage of that and just stay home all the time and get paid for it!" if there is really a statistically relevant amount of people you have hired staying home on paid sick leave for months or years on end, perhaps your workplace sucks to be at, and you need to change.
give them reasons to come in to #work. make it safer and easier to do their #jobs. give them work that they can get invested in and talk to them about what that looks like. make sure you aren't overloading them with too much work or making unreasonable demands. #pay them an amount that makes the work worth doing to them. actually form a working relationship with your #employees instead of treating them like infinitely #exploitable#wage#slaves.
only allowing your #workers to accrew "2 hours a week of sick time starting after 6 weeks of #employment" or some shit just doesn't match the reality of how #sickness or #human#health#works"
Here in Australia, in one of Sydney's biggest hospitals (Royal Prince Alfred aka RPA) masks are mandatory at all times — for everybody. And they WILL kick you out if you don't follow the rules.
Yet I'm reading that many health services worldwide are only now "considering" maybe perhaps one day reintroducing masks.
What the flaming fark? Just bloody do it! Masking saves getting a nasty dose of a number of airborne diseases, and hospitals & doctors' rooms are know for their diseases — it's why they exist for crying out loud!
We mask in shops etc too, but I get it, perhaps they're not as bad as a health setting. Perhaps. You do you there. But a hospital? There should be no question.
Happy to announce that I’m back in my hotel after a bout of #Decompression#Sickness (#DCS) AKA the #Bends at the weekend. We think it was the culmination of six consecutive dives over three days between 38m and 41m on the MV #Zenobia in #Larnaca in #Cyprus. Was transferred to the #hyperbaric#chamber in #Paphos General #Hospital for three chamber sessions and two nights stay. Sincere #gratitude to all the hospital and chamber staff who made me welcome and took care of me.
NHS staff absence rate in England 29% higher than in 2019, Mental health problems were the most common cause, responsible for nearly a quarter of absences. (www.bbc.co.uk)
Surprise, surprise, there are consequences when an entire workforce is overworked and underpaid....