Social care workers do skilled, demanding and deeply human work. Andrew Harrop reports on new research showing their jobs compare favourably with other work on low and middle pay. They like the work, but they need fair pay and better pensions.

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@zackpolanski.bsky.social "I support everyones right to self determination but not at the expense of another group because thats racist" Spot on Zack. If self-determination requires the dispossession & displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing & colonisation

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I didn’t know much about about Abdul El-Sayed before watching this but I knew as soon as I’d seen it that he’d worked as a teacher — and sure enough he was an assistant professor in epidemiology. This is how you walk a student through a dumb take.

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I'm just one data point but I've been sick exactly twice since 2020. Once was covid from someone I was staying with who didn't mask outside our lodgings. The other was a cold from visiting my nieces who don't mask at school. Pretty sure my pre-masking illness rate was higher than twice in 6 years.

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I still mask. It's not hard and I still have more social life than I can schedule in. I haven't had a cold, flu, Covid, or anything for going on seven years. I don't even remember what it's like to start to feel sick.

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