Not a day goes by in the workforce now, where sickness is not a topic of conversation. Appointments are cancelled due to sickness, colleagues call in sick, and more. It can all be dismissed as anecdotal, except that the data shows skyrocketing rates of sick leave and bereavement leave.
The New Zealand pharmaceutical product regulator Medsafe have seen a lot of upheaval since 2020. They have a fairly steady number of staff, rising from 70 FTE to 78 FTE in the past five years. The number of permanent staff departures has risen steadily from 8 in 2019, to 17 in 2023. Staff replacements have risen similarly, from 4 in 2019 to 24 in 2021/22.
More significant is the amount of leave being taken, made available via freedom of information request and shared by the author of Informed Heart.

The same author shows that Department of Transport are experiencing similarly soaring rates of bereavement, sickness and unpaid leave.

From 2020 to 2022 the government, via state funded media, claimed that socially and economically destructive and logically bizarre rules were required because a horrifically dangerous virus was on the loose. This evolved into a magical potion being purchased with public money via unseen contracts, which would protect them. When too few people agreed with this idea, the product was mandated upon the workforce.
The results of mRNA, DNA adeno-vector and injected spike protein harms include immune system damage and auto immune conditions, blood clotting disorders, cardiac system disorders, and neurological disorders. Learn more at mRNA Vaccine Toxicity. And never allow your government, or the corporates instructing them, to do this again.

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