why don't sick people stay the frick home?

Question

why??? *WHY* do some of them insist on coughing and sneezling all over creation?! Don't they know they are infecting others with their viral infectiousness. It's toxic!!! DO they want to start a plague?? I mean REALLY.

What do you all think.

And be honest if you've ever gone to work/school/flown on a plane disgustingly ill and *WHY* ?

bcptm...what kind of stupid name is that? when someone asks a question, you obviously see it as a chance to attack them, not be helpful. congratulations for mastering the asrt of being an insulting dillhole :)

Answer 1

~so, drinkthisup is some masterpiece of creativity? If the best you can do is attack bcptm's name and call her a dillhole (whatever that may be) you'd have been better off leaving it alone. Actually, the points bcptm makes are accurate, intelligent and right on target.

As to folks going on with their lives while suffering from a cold or the flu, has it crossed your little mind that maybe they have no choice. Many don't get sick pay at work. Many have a very stringent absenteeism policy, and folks who need a paycheck are not about to lose their jobs over a few sniffles. I would go anyway, because I have enough pride that I believe I owe it to my employer to show up do my job. I assume I catch whatever I come down with at work, generally from someone who is not aware that he or she is infected or infectious. Post-secondary students frequently have mandatory attendance requirements for their classes and repeating a semester over a cough or a sneeze is neither worth the time nor the money.

As bcptm points out, the incubation period and the contagion period of most viruses are generally well in advance of the onset of symptoms. Best thing you can do to protect yourself is stay home and don't allow visitors inside. And handle all your finances electronically: the germs thriving on coinage and currency is truly appalling. And wear gloves when you open the mail. You never know what the sender or the postman might deliver.

resolutionary, do you realize how many antibiotics have become ineffective and useless precisely because people go running off the the doctor every time they have a little sniffle and because the doctors have so chronically over-prescribed them for so long? The bugs have adapted to them and have become immunized, thereby generating even more vital and virulent strains. Meds should be a last resort, not a panacea. In any case, antibiotics do not harm a virus. Antibiotics are used against bacterial infections. Has it occurred to you that many of those disgustingly sick people you see out there are out there because they have no choice, and many of them are not in the slightest bit contagious? Must be nice to be so superior, so independently wealthy, and to have so many people to wait on you and to take care of you day to day needs that you can just hunker down in bed and watch tv whenver your temperature goes up half a degree.

Answer 2

That's a very good question and honestly I'm completey quilty of it plenty of times. Sometimes, circumstances take place where it's impossible to be off from work. Like, if you're out of vacation or sick time. When I first started my job 2 years ago where I'm at now, I had the flu and still went to work because 1. my 90 day probation wasn't up and 2. I had no health insurance because I was part-time and I really needed the money and the sick benefits didn't kick in yet. Since, I was sitting down the whole time I didn't really think anything of it. At my 2nd job where I had to stand up and was actually face to face with the public I was like heck no I'm not coming in and kill myself and others and catching anything in addition.

At school - nope, I had to beg the nurse to let me go home anytime I felt sick (I don't run fevers for some reason)

On the plane - that's just not good and thank God for airborne

So, yeah. I agree it's toxic and it's not good at all, but work wise I needed to do what I had to do (although now I'm sick and at home battling a viral infection and have insurance and have FMLA to back me up). But, other than that I hate going to work sick. School - I don't really care if I miss days for being sick (which is why I take online classes). But, just keep taking vitamin C, immune boaster pills (they do have them) , and airborne and don't forget to pray, exercise and kept your diet with plenty of antioxidents and you will be ok.

***i'm sorry this is very long winded***

Answer 3

~Well, brainiac, most viral "infectiousness" are highly contagious during the 2 to 3 days before the patient even shows any symptoms. But that's no big deal because there are plenty of air-borne diseases and they don't require people to sneeze or cough -- just inhale the air around them.

If you are so freaked out about people starting a "plague", don't touch doorknobs, elevator buttons, sink faucets, lamp switches, refrigerator door handles, TV remotes, toilet bowl seats and handles, computer keyboards, on/off switches of just about anything you can think of. If you could look under a powerful microscope, you would see millions of germs on all of these things. Some of those germs carry diseases.

Most people cover their mouths when they sneeze or cough. Most people wash their hands after using the toilet.
Most people wash their hands before and after handling food.
The list of what most people do to maintain their personal hygiene and disease prevention is endless.

That is why we don't have plagues anymore.

Your knowledge of the basics of health and disease is astounding.

Answer 4

well, it really doesn't matter if they stay at home when sick because the fact is, is that you've already been exposed.
each viral or bacterial infection has a period of time inbetween exposure and the actual sickness.

so, with that being said, unless they are just feeling real lousy, there isn't a reason to stay home.

others may HAVE to work. they may be responsible for kids or a loved one with a disability.

others simply wish to work by not giving into their illness.

there are many reasons why one works while sick.

but again, you've already been exposed. so, with that being said, good luck and good health and hope your feeling well soon! :o)

Answer 5

I used to wait tables and once my manager made me work with laryngitis. I ended up having to work in the kitche cause I couldn't talk to the customers. Trust me I didn't want to but I had to keep my job.
Now I am a paramedic and I tell my supervisor's I have an ethical responsibility to stay home when I am sick.

Answer 6

wow "bctmp" or whatever your name is, must be nice to be such a condescending person!

I happen to realize the asker of this question is probably exaggerating because she probably sick of people being irresponsible and taking their sicknes to work or school or on the plane with them. Her concern is reasonable!!

She's probably sick of people making lame-**** excuses like "i can't afford to miss one day of work" *whine*

DO you realize how many germs exist in offices and on airplanes precisely BECAUSE people won't stay home and get some drugs into their system?

No obviously not many of you realize this. So sad.

No, we won't get the PLAGUE, but you could get sick from people going out sick so much. It's gross. Wisen up people.

Answer 7

Because they are selfish or they are clueless. I don't even work if I feel sick and it's not contagious (like today). I had a boss once that would come to work sick, then brag about it and then complain for the rest of the day! We would get pissed and tell him to go the hell home. Idiot.

Answer 8

Honestly, you wouldn't "catch" it if your body was in homeostasis. If you get sick from someone else, it is because your immune system is out of whack, either from lack of sleep, stress, poor diet, etc. So I wouldn't worry so much about being around sick people as taking care of yourself. Honestly I would rather get sick this way, then from vaccination. At least it is natural immunity.

Answer 9

I would give anything to have a class party and have food be graded. Just bring in chips and soda or some ****. You get free food. Just go.

Answer 10

I've never went to work severely ill, but I've went being sick. Sometimes people can't afford to miss a day of work, or school.