Brutkey

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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.

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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


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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.

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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.

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

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