Why would you go to work if you know you are not feeling well??
Thanks to the COVID infection I already had and some other illness, I have no sick time left. So if I get it again, I have to take the entire time I'm sick unpaid.
Now I'm lucky in that I can work from home and would do so while able but contagious, and we can afford me to take a few days off unpaid, but plenty of people are in my situation and can't afford a single unpaid day.
I have a coworker who is here with me today ay my job. he's horribly sick and lost his sense of taste but still insists on working and the managers let him. so I'll probably have covid next week.
It's a conundrum for me in my part of the US. Do I risk catching covid or catching hands from stupid people?
I've stopped giving handshakes to almost anyone, favouring the ol' terrorist fist jab instead. I get awkward reactions sometimes but some people seem to get why. Masking up again is gonna be fun, can't wait to hear the vaxxosckeptics tell me all about how everything is a hoax again.
I couldn't get my booster back in April (in Latvia), because "the is no demand for it" so they just stopped offering them.
Hm maybe I should've held off on giving away all my extra masks..
I kept mine, still have a huge package. My thought was to use them in the winter months anyways. Always like that about countries like Japan. Even if it's not a deadly worldwide pandemic, I think we can do a bit to spread less sickness with really only a tiny inconvenience.
No wait! Boris came on TV and said it was all over. He wouldn't lie, would he? Oh, yeah.
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