It seems so odd. Why aren’t covid infections and their aftermath on health ever mentioned as factors in increased absence from school, long term sickness, people having to stop work etc? We already know that millions have long covid, reinfections double the risk and that each wave is going to increase the numbers, so why is it so rarely mentioned? It makes so little logical sense to compare figures to pre-pandemic, without mentioning the health impacts of the virus involved, yet it happens frequently. What’s the rationale for not mentioning it as a factor?