one of england's busiest a&e's got 30 sick children in 30 minutes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmdxky3p9wo

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  • 98 points krizzalicious49

    https://preview.redd.it/fxdomcwpnj6g1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6722338a93b886bded4ec2dee07dcda68cff5811

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    11 points speed_fighter

    holy crap is that a mother flipping iceberg?

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  • 139 points Lego_Kitsune

    And people wonder why our health system is always under stress. Get vaccinated, and stay home if you're ill. Its not that difficult.

    If you definitely need to go out, wear a medical grade disposable (or washable making sure its disinfected) face mask

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    68 points Walming2

    And if you HAVE to go outside, wear a face mask, and wash your hands regularly. That's litteraly what I'm doing right now.

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    28 points ShokaLGBT

    If only people would normalize the face mask again…..

    During COVID it was 999% normal but now they’ll stare at you like you’re a weirdo. I remember buying cute face mask to go with my alt fashion but now I don’t wear em anymore or everyone will stare at me even more thinking it’s weird cuz I’m in Europe and people don’t wear masks :| unlike in Asia where it’s seen as normal

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    15 points [deleted]

    The stay home part is 100% that difficult. I took one day off for sickness earlier this year and so my wages fell below a certain bracket and Universal Credit punished me for months and put me in a category of unemployment. Took me the longest time to prove I had a job, had to attend phone appointments and apply for loads of jobs I didn't need. Absolute nightmare.

    Also the guy assigned to me was a complete sociopath who I'm almost positive took a weird pleasure in my frustration and suffering. I had to leave work a couple of hours early last week because this new flu was killing me and now I have to make sure I work at least 2 hours extra on any department before my next payslip.

    I was on the verge of collapsing at work all last week but I couldn't take a day off because I simply couldn't afford it. It's easy to tell people to stay home when you have a decent job but for the millions of us wage slaves with terrible employers we have no choice. It's work in suffering or stay home in far worse suffering.

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    2 points Purple-Birthday-1419

    Every day I wake up to a perfect world, then moments like these remind me there is still work to be done and horrible people to [REDACTED]*.

    *Torture.

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    5 points KittyQueen_Tengu

    unfortunately i had 2 mandatory lab practicals and an exam

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    1 points speed_fighter

    oh yeah. tell that to those who refuse to get vaccinated. they’re like superhuman or something.

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  • 34 points PLACE-H0LDER

    Now we can finally HONESTLY say "well there is something going around recently" whenever somebody gets ill

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  • 12 points Cheeselad2401

    it’s also pretty bad here (scotland) too from personal experience

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  • 7 points Maxter8002

    oh is that why i got sick for like a day

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  • 3 points Due-Specialist-5476

    Son we just crossed the street,lets not throw a party...

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  • 5 points ST100FromScratch

    I got a jab 4 weeks ago and now I have it. It's so unfair

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    1 points yeettheporg

    U know that getting the vaccine doesn't stop u from getting sick right? It decreases how bad the disease effects u.

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    1 points gayrider345

    No that's not how vaccines work, it decreases your chance of getting sick from the type of illness the vaccine is

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  • 2 points boiifyoudontboiiiiii

    Further reducing NHS funds will surely fix this

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  • 4 points Olphegae

    when a contagius virus is contagious o ma gahhh

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  • 1 points Satorwave

    Sure, it's the "flu". Always the same...

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    3 points krizzalicious49

    ?

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    1 points Satorwave

    covid

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  • 1 points IndependentParfait23

    Glad I don't live in the UK

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