COVID-19's impacts 3+ years later

@divegeester said
So why is getting a visa a problem?

1. Increase in demand for mental health services, along with decrease in supply of those services.
2. Many retirements brought forward resulting in worker shortages in health, education, transport and anything involving skills.
3. Essential workers found less stressful workplaces, and won't be returning.

One thing that's become an accidental benefit is the ability to make medical and dental appointments online. Savvy people book multiple appointments into the future, then cancel the ones they don't need. That provides unexpected spaces for the call-takers to satisfy their customers. Only works if there are actual doctors at the clinic though.

@a-unique-nickname said
Read it and imagine you're from Albania or somewhere and want to work in the UK and you have a wife and kid.

Then tell me what the problemsss are.

@fmf said
Is recruiting someone "from Albania or somewhere" going to create upward or downward pressure on the wages paid to British health workers [who might well "have a wife and kid"] ?

@david-burton said
Its all swings and roundabouts.

@fmf said
No it's not.

@david-burton said
Guess u are right (the crown gives it away) life is a Merry go round,with all its ups and downs & ins and outs etc.

@fmf said
Thanks for the archetypal shallow badradger cop out.

@fmf said
Is recruiting someone "from Albania or somewhere" going to create upward or downward pressure on the wages paid to British health workers [who might well "have a wife and kid"] ?

@fmf said
what lasting effects has the pandemic had on your everyday life?

@rookie54 said
it's not a mask
it's an IQ test

the most far-reaching and lasting impact upon my life is the addition of a critical piece of wear apparel
i do not decide whether to wear a mask or not, i decide whether to wear the red one, the blue one, or the grateful dead steal yer face one

i still make decisions on whether to wear shoes or a hat, or underwear, but i always wear a ...[text shortened]... any human wandering

ps
i am not a scientist, but this stuff ain't over

and it never will be

@a-unique-nickname said
Read it and imagine you're from Albania or somewhere and want to work in the UK and you have a wife and kid.

Then tell me what the problemsss are.

@divegeester said
One test of fitness to work in the UK might be the ability to fill out a visa application.

@drewnogal said
Some from my family were considering regaining unlimited access to countries in the European Union following Brexit by regaining a Polish passport by descent but the paperwork is lengthy and it’s all in Polish. In addition dates and documentation are needed as proof of how our parents travelled to the UK back in 1947.

@divegeester said
That sounds challenging for them, but is it directly connected with a visa application to work in the UK today?