2️⃣ The report says:

> “There are 800,000 more people out of work due to ill health than before 2019.”

Yet it never asks what happened in 2019–2020 to cause that shift.

You can’t fix a workforce crisis while pretending the pandemic didn’t happen.
#KeepBritainWorking

Finally, please also sign and share the important petition by @cvcev.bsky.social calling on the UK government to restore NHS Covid vaccines to those at greatest clinical risk: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We need an urgent rethink to prevent more unnecessary deaths, severe illness, chronic illness, more pressure in healthcare, on education and on all sectors of the economy and society!

This year, not even ppl at particularly high clinical risk due to heart disease, diabetes, serious respiratory illness, pregnancy, etc. can get a Covid vaccine (other than by paying nearly £100 for a private one). Nor can healthcare and care workers, family carers, etc....

Healthcare, incl. vaccination, is devolved in Scotland. The Scottish Government is following Westminster decisions based on highly problematic advice from an advisory body (JCVI) even though they don't have to - and without explaining their reasons.

With millions of people in the UK suffering from Long Covid and organ damage linked to Covid, a fall in healthy life expectancy is sadly the result. Not saying that Covid is responsible for 100% of this, but it is undoubtedly a major factor.