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mycatisminnie t1_j1qmwfu wrote

Reply to comment by IamTalking in Anyone else has the flu? by Emergency-Candy1677

Until they are better. I don’t understand why we’d ever encourage sick people to be out in public

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IamTalking t1_j1qnonc wrote

Define better. Are you saying better in terms of contagious, or 100% asymptomatic?

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mycatisminnie t1_j1quzkh wrote

If someone is hacking and boogering all over the place they should not be in public. Or take a cough suppressant or something. I can’t believe the amount of people that walk around spewing their phlegm everywhere. If they really have to be out in public, at least give them a cough suppressant or decongestant. People are so f’ing gross.

I get it, sometimes you still have to be out and about. What I don’t get is why these people can’t do the polite thing and take some medicine to suppress their symptoms while they’re around others. Or suck on a cough drop so you don’t need to cough all over the place. Gross

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IamTalking t1_j1r81sl wrote

The polite thing is to not spread an illness, meaning staying out of school while in the contagiousness period. Expecting parents to give their kids cough suppressants, which are generally a horrible idea for little kids, just to be "polite" is very weird. Kids can have boogers for month on end, do you want parents to load them up with Sudafed daily just to be polite?

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bb5199 t1_j1rehhr wrote

Yeah, the boogers thing the person mentioned is stupid. Lots of kids have congestion or runny noses. They don't need to stay home for that.

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MOGicantbewitty t1_j1qrty2 wrote

Because parents can’t afford to miss the work. That needs to be fixed before we can change the recommendations or the choices people make. Sending your kid to school still sick sounds like a stupid choice until you have decide whether your next paycheck will buy enough food, pay for rent, and keep the heat and electric on. Missing a day of work is the difference between having the electricity turned off for many families. I’ve personally been there

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Valuable-Baked t1_j1qxtne wrote

And electric/heat is now 3x more expensive than it used to be

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ArmlessGeodude t1_j1r1rsy wrote

Sounds like you should just get a better job. Try harder. Work around more sick people, since that's what you think a job entails. /s

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