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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Up until Covid when TW became more wide-spread, people with minor colds, coughs or flu symptoms came in to work. Even feds.

It was that way for decades. People just didn't take off work for minor illnesses.

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Just because we’ve always done it one way doesn’t mean that it’s the right way.[/quote]

Until such time as there is unlimited sick leave for ALL U.S. workers, including for minor sickness like the common cold, then you are dreaming. If every worker took time off work until their cold or cough was completely gone the productivity in this country would completely tank.

Do you seriously think it is the "right way" for ALL doctors, nurses, health care workers, firefighters, police officers, EMTs, electric linemen, trash removal teams, etc. to take off all the time they need to completely recover from a common cold or cough?  Coughs, on average, take six weeks to resolve.

Imagine what the ERs would be like if you needed to take yourself/your child there and they tell you, "Sorry ... no staff available. They're all of because of coughs."  Or sorry - we have no ambulance staff. They've all got a cold, sniff sniff.
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A crummy doctor had a bad cold and instead of canceling got me sick.  I have health issues so it lasts weeks and rounds of antibiotics and steroids.  You suck if you deliberately spread it.  [/quote]

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