Good. If you’re sick, stay home. We don’t need to pass that shit back and forth.
Which is something we all (should have) learned very well because of the Covid pandemic, which happened in 2020, right after the comparison here between 2019 and present day.
tl;dr: duh
lol came here to say that - people have just been WAY more sick in general because of covid, long covid, and pasc
It’s important to challenge assumptions and to do studies with “obvious” results, because we’ve been surprised so many times before.
Almost every sick day I take is a mental health day. Sometimes I look out the window and see it’s still capitalism outside and I just can’t even.
I remember a funny story where a country declared being gay as a sickness. So people started taking sick leaves en masse saying “sorry, can’t attend office today. Feeling a bit gay”. The country quickly reverted the change.
The country being Sweden.