Brutkey

John
@johnzajac@dice.camp

@luckytran@med-mastodon.com

Sad that it's surprising, really.

Another concerned scientist
@ABScientist@forall.social

@johnzajac@dice.camp @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

At work there are regular meetings. We could have these online (safe). We could have these outdoors with some distance (fairly safe). We could have these indoors all wearing FFP2 (fairly safe). But no, the meetings must be indoors without masks (not safe at all).

Do employers think that all of their employees are immune to long Covid?

John
@johnzajac@dice.camp

@ABScientist@forall.social @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

My guess is most of them have internalized the neoliberal idea that everyone can be replaced.

cognitively accessible math
@geonz@mathstodon.xyz

@johnzajac@dice.camp @ABScientist@forall.social @luckytran@med-mastodon.com (( or just rolling along in denial )). It's *weird.* Our first semester back from COVID and ... they had us clump together for a group picture indoors. Yes, some of us were masked and erm, pretty much held our breath and wished we had escaped before the clumping and they took extra time to get up on a ladder for a better angle.
We did not have an outbreak. People *weren't there that day* because they had COVID, but as far as I k now nobody caught it that day ?!?!?!?!?
Yes, I still wear a mask in the tutoring center. Yes, I'll wear it at our department meeting today. Yes, I wore it to the meeting yesterday (as did oh, at least three other people in the hundreds in the theatre...)
IT IS NUTS.

Cosmic Librarian
@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com

@geonz@mathstodon.xyz @johnzajac@dice.camp @ABScientist@forall.social @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

I used to work in public health. I still mask in crowded, indoor settings. What's nuts is that people act like COVID has disappeared.

One thing I learned, years ago, is the number of idiots who think it's ok to go places, including work, while ill, and even with the flu.

Another concerned scientist
@ABScientist@forall.social

@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @johnzajac@dice.camp @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

I noticed that in crime novels from before the pandemic, people already thought it was normal to go to work sick.

The only reason why coworkers in those novels thought that the sick person should go home, was because they were useless being sick, not because it would infect the rest of the team

Cosmic Librarian
@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com

@ABScientist@forall.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @johnzajac@dice.camp @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

When I was in public health, I contacted our epi (my boss) about an employee in my area with the flu. She said there was nothing that she could do, and that we could not make the employee leave. It was nuts. That's why no employer should deny masking.

Another concerned scientist
@ABScientist@forall.social

@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @johnzajac@dice.camp @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

It was a really clever strategy from governments to say "it is like the flu now", because they knew people would still come to work with the flu and they would not skip restaurant dinners with the flu.

Cosmic Librarian
@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com

@ABScientist@forall.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @johnzajac@dice.camp @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

It's 'just the flu' is stupid. Estimates are as high as 50 million world-wide that died from 'just the flu' in 1918.

Cosmic Librarian
@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com

@ABScientist@forall.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @johnzajac@dice.camp @luckytran@med-mastodon.com

It's 'just the flu' is stupid. Estimates are as high as 50 million world-wide that died from 'just the flu' in 1918.