You never stayed home with a cold? Your co-workers, if they could identify that it was you all those times getting them sick, would like to have a word with you.
Is this going to become like the anti-vaxx shit? Demanding freedom to get everyone around you sick, no matter the illness? Do we now have 40% of the US thinking it's a conspiracy that people infect each other with disease or something?!!?
Are showers now an uncool thing? Soap, are we gonna go backwards on soap due to some insane conspiracies peddled by sub-humans? Is this how humanity ends, in an irrecoverable stupid-spiral?
Thanks for always spreading those colds you had throughout your life. I am suuuuure everyone was only ever affected by it in exactly the same way it affected you (ie, you could still go into work). I mean, empathy is for suckers, am I rite?
Is it realistic to stay at home to prevent colds spreading? People with a cold are infectious for around two weeks, and get up to 4 cold on average a year. You may not be able to do your job from home easily, so that's 8 weeks of sick leave per year just to stop your coworkers getting a runny nose. Assuming you work 47 weeks a year, that's 17% of your work hours spent on sick leave, ignoring other illnesses.
In the UK you would not be entitled to pay for that sick leave unless you had a note from a doctor stating that you are unfit for work, which you would not be able to get for a cold. Moreover it is legal for you to be fired for taking too much sick leave, so you would be putting your ability to pay rent and, over the longer term, your job at risk.
> Thanks for always spreading those colds you had throughout your life.
Oddly enough, I heard a man on the radio speculate that the reason kids seem to be less affected by this than expected is because they have terrible hygiene and have built up immunity to many other coronaviruses floating around out there, giving them a leg up.
But also I think we must have different definitions of what a cold is.
A while back I trained myself into the habit of sleeping in two cycles each night. I’m a night owl, and thought it would be a good way to get a full night’s sleep and still have the night owl lifestyle. After several months, I found myself feeling detached from the world.
The hour or two you get is literally between sleep cycles. During that nighttime, my mind would race and worry about the most useless things. The dreamlike state wouldn’t shut off cleanly and I could not concentrate, so that hour was never productive like I usually am during the night hours. It was impossible to learn anything, nothing would be retained. The second sleep cycle was always turbulent and I found myself waking up several times throughout. During the day, it felt like my emotions were muddled, like I was an automaton. That hour or two morphed into my only personal time, and the day became mindless, numb.
I considered this a failed experiment and re-trained myself back to a single sleep cycle. It was harder going back than it had been to split in the first place. After several months of ‘normal’ sleep I was back to having deep peaceful sleep. I was myself again during the day. I could learn and keep knowledge. The world was interesting again and I was engaging with it.
These were my experiences and expect it would be different for each individual.
Is this going to become like the anti-vaxx shit? Demanding freedom to get everyone around you sick, no matter the illness? Do we now have 40% of the US thinking it's a conspiracy that people infect each other with disease or something?!!?
Are showers now an uncool thing? Soap, are we gonna go backwards on soap due to some insane conspiracies peddled by sub-humans? Is this how humanity ends, in an irrecoverable stupid-spiral?
Thanks for always spreading those colds you had throughout your life. I am suuuuure everyone was only ever affected by it in exactly the same way it affected you (ie, you could still go into work). I mean, empathy is for suckers, am I rite?