Why it would be a big mistake to remove the power of GP’s from being able to issue sick notes.

Frederick Bott
1 min readApr 21, 2024

A response to something maybe true or not true, before it becomes true.

Talking mostly to those with the power to make changes:

Everything starts as a rumour right?

So this rumour I first saw on GB news but can’t see confirmed anywhere else, but who starts all the wars, if it isn’t corporates thinking they can make some more money from it?

Anyhow this rumor claims MPs, the PM, the UK government, or whoever are seriously thinking about removing the power of GP’s to issue sick notes, to somehow get UK “Back to work”.

It’s a cracking of the whip, as far as I can tell.

But look guys, the specific problem identified is mental illness.

This is what a lot of us are blaming our own reluctance to go back to contributing to the system destroying the planet on.

We are mentally ill, if we don’t want to carry on destroying the planet, right?

Or not right?

Who decides?

MPs?

Corporates?

Because if you remove the power of MPs to decide what is and isn’t sanity, you also remove their power to decide if we are dying or not.

Do you really want that?

How about yourself, when you are dying one day, maybe already broke because you lost the health to retain your position on the hierarchy and your money becomes worthless, who would you want deciding you need help?

Or would you rather not have any help?

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