Perhaps these are scenarios one should consider before deciding to have children?

I could be wrong, but pretty sure CDC only went to a 5-day quarantine when the economy really couldn't bear the weight of longer quarantine periods on a mass scale anymore. I think it was 10 days prior to that change. But again, I could be misremembering.

Ayy

Yes, to a degree. I once got very upset at a co-worker and friend who came to the office very clearly ill with flu and got everyone in our wing sick. I gave it to my immunocompromised dad (living at home at the time), and he spent 9 days in the ICU. I was pissed. This was pre-pandemic.

Her excuse? It was a big day at work. She wasn't wrong. And she probably would have gotten shit had she called out sick that day.

So many of our problems stem from the outdated, disgustingly American mentality of work over everything else. It's changing here, thankfully, but too slowly.

"No need to bitch about little stupid shit that was never a big issue 3 years ago."

Society tends to do this crazy thing where it, and bear with me here, progresses.