Well dang. This is how Covid spreads.

[Baitball Blogger]

Just read a friend’s Facebook post. Young lady with a heart of gold. I was invited to her wedding and could write a book about that night. Everything went wrong but you would never have known it based on the way she treated every unexpected wave of bad luck like it was an ordinary dey at the beach. I got the feeling that these kind of things happened to her often, but she learned to focus on the good things in life.

So tonight she posted that her husband came home with a fever and she has one too, but it never got above 100. They asked if she received a Covid test and she said she couldn’t get one because they were short at work and she had to go in. And her husband refuses to opt for medical assistance. I am pretty sure they’re both vaccinated, so they are hoping for the best.

However, I conclude that this is probably how Covid will continue to circulate in our country, Scenarios like this one.

[brewens]

1. We've had people all along go in to work or go about whatever daily business with

symptoms, just like people always have with colds. They did it because TFG said it was okay. His quote about going into work and they get better, when he was saying it's just the flu, was the start of it.

[mucifer]

2. You can also spread it if you are asymptomatic.

[SheltieLover]

3. +1

[captain queeg]

4. I ever had a job that gave sick days till I was in my 30s

You dragged your ass in or you didn’t get paid. I have some sympathy for those who must work and are living check to check. I’d think an employer would want someone to stay home if they had Covid but if they don’t know and aren’t very sick… I doubt they get cut much slack. Also, I have no doubt there are employees who would abuse the system. It just sucks at the bottom of the totem pole.

[gab13by13]

5. Yeah, we had sick days,

you had to give 48 hours notice.

[DBoon]

20. many white collar jobs do provide sick days

use too many of them, or get sick at a bad time for the employer, and you may find your job cut in the next round of layoffs.

And regular layoffs have been a feature of corporate life since Reagan was president.

[Nay]

6. This country has always been a "go to work or starve" sort of country, so this scenario

is hardly a novel one. And don't forget, going to work when you are sick shows endurance and dedication. Besides, so many jobs have no sick days, no vacation days, and you can get fired at will in many states. So your choice is go to work or -- lose your job, lose your house, destroy whatever savings you have accumulated, wreck your credit and, finally, end up sleeping in your car. If it hasn't been repossessed.

This is not the type of country that can, or will, respond appropriately to such a thing as a pandemic. It will demand that those who can't keep up must go somewhere and die, cuz that's freedumb.

[KS Toronado]

7. "go to work or starve"

Pretty much nails it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Yep! (n/t)

[chia]

10. Well said.

[area51]

12. THIS. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

13. +1

[leftstreet]

16. +1

[NNadir]

9. People got transmissable fevers before Covid.

I personally had many of them.

A flu vaccine shot is on my agenda every year as a result.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Agree

A lot of the spread is by good intentioned people who just think it's no big deal this time.

Saw the same thing in my wife's family. When one was suspected to have Covid, they said things like, "Well, we all saw each other a few days ago, so we're all exposed to each other so it won't matter if we see each other today." No, you all may be exposed, isolate, end of story. Maybe 1 of you has asymptomatic Covid, but didn't spread it to the family over the weekend, but will spread it to them if you get together for dinner at grandma's Wednesday night.

[lagomorph777]

14. A person with a heart of gold does not go to work with COVID.

...or even suspected COVID.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. She greets customers outside of the building and is masked.

This is a procedure she was using last year. I think she might be more of a danger to a co-worker that walks into the bathroom behind her, than she does to a customer. I'm sure she will do everything she can to warn everyone, and I'm hoping that her boss is smart enough to ask her to go home.

[lagomorph777]

18. You think the boss will let her stand at the door and tell every customer that she has COVID?

[Baitball Blogger]

19. She has random appointments. Might see 2 or 3 per day.

I don't know how shorthanded they are, but she might have someone else do this part.

There's plenty of work to do in the back, that would keep her away from people.

[Wounded Bear]

15. We've treated colds and flu like that for decades, maybe centuries...

hard to un-learn lifetimes of training.