Post-Covid Austria: +41% Sick Leave in 2022, Relative to 2019

Official data suggests something's oddly rotten in Covidistan, and of course the 'solution' is more jabs, no questions asked

Something odd caught my eye here, and perhaps you can spot it, too.

Translation, emphases, and bottom lines mine.

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People Get Sick More Often than Before the Pandemic

By Elke Ziegler, ORF ‘Science’, 28 Dec. 2023 [source]

Many people have been sick in the past few weeks; the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) reported 330,000 sick days in mid-December. That is significantly more in autumn and winter than before the Coronavirus pandemic, which really shook up the world of viruses.

The fact that the waves of illness in autumn and winter are currently starting earlier than before the pandemic and are more severe is not just a subjective impression. ÖGK figures compiled for science.ORF.at also support this: according to official data, between 150,000 and 200,000 more sick days were reported in the first half of December this year and last year than in comparable periods in 2018 and 2019, i.e., before the pandemic. The difference is greatest between 2018 and 2022 with an increase of around 216,000 sick leaves (see graphic).

Caption: ‘Sick leave notices in weeks 49-50’

One cause is Covid-19, says virologist Judith Aberle from the Medical University of Vienna: ‘Many people become infected, many are sick. We still have strong coronavirus activity.’ [what a wonderfully useless comment] But that is not the only effect of the pandemic that has caused Sars-CoV-2 to spread worldwide. The expert [no irony here, move on, folks] also observes a change in the viruses typical of autumn and winter, such as influenza and RSV: ‘We see a [just ‘one’?] changed pattern in these seasonal viruses, especially in the sense that they occur at different times.’

Viruses Appear at Different Times

For example, last year influenza picked up speed in November, and in mid-December the flu wave was already at its peak. This year, too, the number of influenza cases is increasing from week to week, with the ÖGK recently recording an increase of almost 50% in sickness reports with flu within a week. Before the pandemic, this was only the case in January.

RSV, a respiratory pathogen [a human-made lab creation] that also circulates in autumn and winter, and it too appears differently today than it did before 2020: ‘The virus typically has a two-year rhythm: in one year you have an early strong season, and this is then usually followed by a weaker season. And then another stronger one follows.’ Recently [i.e., 2022 and 2023], however, there have been two very early strong seasons in the last two winters with a peak in November and December. This year we are also seeing increasing activity, says Aberle, but the peak will be a little later than in previous years.

Consequences for Therapies and Vaccines

It is currently not possible to predict waves of infection: ‘They change, and we first have to learn how they change.’ It could take several years before the typical seasonal pattern that existed before the pandemic can be seen again, says the virologist in an interview with Ö1—and points to an important conclusion: ‘If this predictability is no longer present, i.e., the virus appears either earlier or much later, then recommendations for therapies or vaccines must also be adjusted.’

You have to make sure early on that an antibody drug [no ‘news’ w/o Big Pharma harlotry, i.e., the recently authorised monoclonal antibodies] is available for newborns, for example, so that they don't become seriously ill with RSV; or that people with previous illnesses are informed about vaccinations and the protective effects of masks [say what again?!]. According to Judith Aberle, health policy is also asked to better adapt to the new confusion and take precautions.

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Bottom Lines

Yes, Dr. Aberle is an Associate Professor in Virology at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria; she’s an ‘expert™’ in ‘Flavivirus T cell response’, but, what the heck, I suppose any virologist will do.

Did you spot the absence of the years 2020 and 2021 in the above illustration?

If you head over to Statistics Austria, you can generate the following ‘helpful’ graph:

Caption: ‘Sick leave notices according to diagnostic categories’. The top green line are category X, respiratory illnesses.

Expressed in numbers, this is what it looks like:

Caption: ‘Sick leave notices, duration, and no. of days since 1965’.

Curious, eh? The two years conspicuously omitted from the above ORF-provided illustration show a drastic ‘slump’ in 2020, a ‘rebound’ in 2021, and continued increase of all factors in 2022.

Since then, it has gotten worse: data for 2022 suggests a whooping 41% (!) increase of sick leave notices compared to 2019. As you can see (and calculate yourself), 2023 looks ‘better’, relatively speaking, than 2022. Here’s a click-able source link, and have a go yourself.

Apart from the Bg Pharma harlotry by ‘the expert™’ Judith Aberle, we note that the average number of sick leaves has also increased from 13.3 days in 2019 to 14.9 days in 2022.

To conclude for time being: something is rotten, but better not enquire about it lest one might find out stuff that one wouldn’t want to know.

Like, e.g., why are the seasonal occurrences of the flu and RSV so upside down?

Or why do seemingly all resident ‘experts™’ consulted by legacy media diehard vaccine promotors/Big Pharma shills?

And what could be the proximate reason for the massive increase in sick leave?