The Canada Convoy

If you have a head cold, don't go to work. It can be infectious.

Here are some examples of what groupthink can lead to. Stuff that is more likely to happen among Conspiracy Theorists, than normal people.

• Illusions of unanimity lead members to believe that everyone is in agreement and feels the same way. It is often much more difficult to speak out when it seems that everyone else in the group is on the same page.
• Unquestioned beliefs lead members to ignore possible moral problems and not consider the consequences of individual and group actions.
• Rationalizing prevents members from reconsidering their beliefs and causes them to ignore warning signs.
• Stereotyping leads members of the in-group to ignore or even demonize out-group members who may oppose or challenge the group's ideas. This causes members of the group to ignore important ideas or information.
• Self-censorship causes people who might have doubts to hide their fears or misgivings. Rather than sharing what they know, people remain quiet and assume that the group must know best.
• "Mindguards" act as self-appointed censors to hide problematic information from the group. Rather than sharing important information, they keep quiet or actively prevent sharing.

• Illusions of invulnerability lead members of the group to be overly optimistic and engage in risk-taking. When no one speaks out or voices an alternative opinion, it causes people to believe that the group must be right.
• Direct pressure to conform is often placed on members who pose questions, and those who question the group are often seen as disloyal or traitorous.

Without know these doctors I expect you are right. None of them would put "Long Covid" on a medical cert for a worker. But it is a real thing, and has very serious medical consequences for some people, not only in the groups you know about. CIPD which is to do with HR, issues guidance.

Guidance on what long COVID is and how employers can manage employees suffering from its effects

Long COVID is a shorthand term for the long-term adverse effects of coronavirus. Many employees will feel better in a few days or weeks after coronavirus and the majority should make a full recovery within twelve weeks. However, for a significant minority of people, long-term symptoms of coronavirus can last for a significant period after an initial COVID-19 infection. Symptoms are extensive, ranging from exhaustion, breathing difficulties and breathlessness, continued fever, anxiety and stress, to muscle weakness, and the inability to walk. Others have heart or neurological problems. Lung abnormalities seem to last many months after infection and there seem to be post-viral fatigue symptoms similar to ME or chronic fatigue syndrome. There is increasing medical evidence that a small but significant minority of people who contract COVID-19 can still be seriously affected months after initially falling ill. As the virus is so new, medical knowledge about the effects of long COVID are still the subject of extensive research.

Long COVID symptoms can happen to people of all ages regardless of underlying health conditions and there will be some employees who are unable to return to full-time work for long periods.

the vaccines are reasonably effective so nobody was sold a pup.

you lost, get over it.

the only ones lead up the garden path were those stupid to believe the anti-vax, anti-science, anti-facts brigade.

the rest of us saw reality for what it was.

the science and evidence says otherwise, i am afraid.

wrong again.

And it looks like this fella is moderating the Science & Health Moderators! Jesus wept 🙄

if you ask the question in the thread on MUP i will answer it there as i don't want to take this thread off topic.

its nothing to do with right, left, liberal or eliberal, it's to do with fact and fiction, truth and lies.

the convoy are made up of people who believe and are spreading misinformation, lies and conspiracy theories.