[AndyJackson]

The economic cost from folks trying to prevent an economic cost - actually taking sick days, guarantees that more people are going to be sick and the total economic cost will increase.

People with contagious diseases should self-isolate, including colds and flu out of consideration for others.

[Splorndle]

Wrong. TO have a healthy immune system you must be exposed to disease. It is part of life. Now, I am not saying that people should intentionally be exposed to ebola or a disease that extreme but it is arguable that every person under 45, without a severe comorbidity, should be exposed to COVID. It would kill few and makes everyone more safe.

[Navy Patriot]

No Matter What Sickness You Have, Please Keep Your Germs At Home

An open letter from Holly Sheer to Xi Jinping?

[DannyTN]

[Buckeye McFrog]

I know few people who are inconsiderate enough that they would go out and DELIBERATELY infect people when they know they are sick.

The whole problem with COVID has been that it’s largely asymptomatic and you don’t know.

[RatRipper]

If you fear dying, you fear living. You can’t take all the risk out of living. The Left and the Rats have gone bat$h!+ crazy over COVID. Trump is showing the way. Protect the vulnerable, but everybody else needs to be at school and at work. Vote for the Rats and the inmates will be running the asylum.

[Mariner]

“One of the most basic ways we function together as a society is by caring about each other, working together as families and communities.”

When did that ever happen?

On 50s and 60s TV.

[jmacusa]

Hey, Holly. Grow up,and grow a pair. There’s more germs on the inside of your mouth right now that floating around in the air.

[joethedrummer]

If we aren’t gonna be “allowed” to be sick any more, we really WILL have millions dying when everyone’s immune system goes to zero.

This planet of ours has had viruses on it that we all have lived our entire lives with. We catch many of them. Some people die from them; we ALL die from something, however..

How many years have YOU (whoever) been on earth? If you’re reading this, you’ve survived THAT many years while living among viruses like Ebola, Swine flu, Bird flu, Measles, mumps, Chicken Pox, the Black Plague, etc.... Yet, you are STILL here Who DOESNT get sick now and then??? Since WHEN is that a societal threat?

[lepton]

I understand it’s hard to miss work.

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It’s changing, but a lot of jobs consider any sick days as dings against your performance, or at least perfect attendance as a positive.

[glorgau]

Talking about this issue recently with friends, we discussed a very serious side of going in public with illnesses that can be mild for most people: inadvertently infecting a family with an at-risk member. An inconvenience for many people can quickly become a tragedy for a family with a loved one undergoing chemo, or with an organ transplant, or a limited immune system. Suddenly that bothersome fever is no longer just an annoyance, but a scary and dangerous situation.

ie. everyone should spend the rest of their natural lives walking on eggshells in perpetual fear of affecting another person no matter how remote.

[backwoods-engineer]

To the author of the piece: SHUT UP, KAREN. Some of us have to make a living. Business owners don’t get “sick days.” Not everyone has a cushy job writing condescending, risk-averse, female-hormone puff pieces like this piece of virtual birdcage liner.

[pigsmith]

< best syrupy voice >Oh Holly, honey, you see, that's why God gave us immune systems. < /best syrupy voice > Healthy people should not be forced to wear these stupid masks to make YOU candy-assed paranoids feel 'safe'. If you're so desperately afraid of catching something, then YOU wear the damn things or stay home and hide behind your couch.

Leave the rest of us alone.

[familyop]

It’s not healthy for us to be exposed to every bad virus that starts in a third world place on the other side of the planet. Each illness scars the body and takes it a little further towards generating abnormal cells.