tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/03/2026It's going to fall further too, just as the actual age at which people dies has also fallen and is continuing to fall. So you die younger, and you become unhealthy younger. 612135
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉 It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'. 12439186
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 09/02/2026And I synchronised the graphs at 2019 because that's the last covid free year, and it ties the chart together neatly. 11005
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I faded out the year 2021 because that year includes all of the 'lockdowns' and during that year people were taking precautions to avoid illness. 11126
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 09/02/2026🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do. 31588271
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff The three graphs that *every person* needs to see. The question that every single person needs to ask their government: What are you doing to protect me from Covid infection? 38575273
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 02/12/2025There's a tern and three ternlings eagerly (but patiently and considerately) awaiting the next page... I've just loved the last couple of chapters. 🥰 030
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Hey. Absolutely loving this. Work of scholarship and art and love. 021
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Please feel free to go and check the data. It's all here: www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/s... 28411
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Put it up alongside the staff sickness rate at the NHS. That black line is the pre-pandemic average, and the red and the green are the worse and better points in the year. 514831
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Here's a graph of the rolling 6 month totals of people who have had to wait 12 hours from decision to admit to admission. 316441
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025And the worst winter of all for delays to urgent care? NOW. 215619
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Urgent. You actually may need to zoom into that image to see the original graph. 113513
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Rampant Spread: You need to *click* on this image to see the *mindboggling* change in number of people waiting 12 hours for treatment when they attend urgent care. 730465
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It's in tiny pockets in 2019/20, not rampant yet. And then in 2020/2021 it's potentially rampant, but *mitigations* are holding it in check still. 115517
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Emergency Phase: Then Covid arrives. You probably look at this and think it's bad, right? You p 317824
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Pre-pandemic: This is the sad graph of how many patients had to wait *12 hours* to be admitted after the decision to admit them to hospital was made. Depressing, right. We're talking about urgent care here. 219126
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 23/02/2025ternling three loved this episode. they also drew me a birthday card a while back... 1150
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I am shocked and stunned and shocked that Boris Johnson might have misled us about this. "Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for decades" www.theguardian.com/society/2025... 1428952
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 17/01/2025It would cost over £1800 for a family of 5 to get vaccinated for the tripledemic illnesses you ignorant loofah. The government aren't offering them. <screams> "This could be the toughest winter in NHS history. Here’s a simple way we can all help: Get vaccinated" 526758
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 16/01/2025"Economic growth could fall 50% over 20 years from climate shocks, say actuaries" Story: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1422674
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Look carefully at the bottom of the picture. 👀 The NHS is advertising for "corridor nurses". 🤬 1616753
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 09/01/2025We're still at a comparative low for covid case numbers, but the tide may have turned. Worth keeping a careful watch on this over the next couple of weeks. Would be great to know what variants are doing... but there's no data past early December. 😕 515414
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 09/01/2025We're only now heading into what is normally the worst of Norovirus season here... and our rolling annual total of cases of Noro is already unprecedented. Why? Because... 519657
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The smoke plume from the Palisades Fire growing on satellite. 214929
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 08/01/2025There is a whole load of Los Angeles downwind of the Eaton Fire, and some very strong winds. 6595
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Lab confirmed Mpox on the march in England... 😕 Data from here: www.gov.uk/government/p... 414634
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 05/01/2025How the holy flaming shirtballs do they not mention that ambulance delays are at their worst during the peaks of spread of Covid and Flu? How do these obstinate muppets manage to ignore this. "Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day" <rage> 834974
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Your occasional reminder that covid PCR testing in England has very little to do with whether someone has covid or not. PCR testing and covid admissions for 2024 on the same graph. It's pathetic, isn't it? 218746
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 27/12/2024"Terns suffered big losses on the Farne Islands, with numbers of common, sandwich and Arctic tern down by 70%, 66% and 51% respectively. They are the lowest numbers in modern history, with bird flu suspected to be a key factor." 💔 930867
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 27/12/2024"Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024" www.theguardian.com/environment/... 414741
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Mystery solved. "Updated week 50 to correct the ebola incidence, which had mistakenly been set to 1, to the correct figure of zero." Honestly. It's like they don't even look at it before they hit send. 1656
tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Well, it's been the longest ever wait, but the switcheroo is flexing its muscles again. H69/V70+ sequences popping up in multiple countries. I've been wondering for a while whether it was inevitable, or whether BA.2.86 had somehow killed it off. 113817
