Does it occur to you
That was your first mistake
If it does occur to them, it doesn’t matter to them.
Huh, I assumed this was during the COVID-19 epidemic, but yeah, it’d be nice if the US became much more aware of common infectious diseases. The Capitalism drives us to come in to work drugged up, even when we’re highly infectious (often infecting the department).
I’m pretty isolated, myself, and got two colds (differing symptoms!) this year.
Since one of the family at this year’s Christmas gathering is immunocompromised, I stayed home, since I wasn’t yet clearly on the mend.
So yeah, it’d be nice if we could depoliticize anti-pathogen hygiene. I’ve learned in my old age not to expect great things from human society.
I mean, we have very little context here. But how I currently read it I’ll have to agree with the “No”. If you go to a party then you’ll obviously run the risk of getting ill with COVID or something else like the flu, but at the moment you run that risk pretty much everywhere. COVID, the flu, and the other viruses are no longer a threat to any functioning health system. They’re still a threat to many individuals, but that in and of itself is not reason to stop living your life. At some point we’ve concluded that the pandemic is over and the risk is no longer big enough to stop living our life. And that unfortunately means that some immunocompromised people run a big risk, but we can’t stop enjoying our lifes forever or protect a few people.
COVID is still more deadly than any modern disease, excepting AIDS and the Spanish Flu, and it’s currently killing lots of people. Just because we’re having a collective delusion about COVID being harmless now does not make it so. (Nor does refusing to collect data on it.) Reality is still there even if you stop believing in it, etc.
Seasonal flu is still out there. Nobody thinks it doesn’t kill people. But can’t shut down everything because of it either. Same for corona.
COVID is 10x as deadly as the flu and far more contagious. In 2021, when half a million people in the US died to COVID, they didn’t even bother to count flu deaths because they were so low. We accidentally wiped out whole strains of the flu.
This attitude of “we can’t hurt business no matter how many people die” is insane.
This attitude of “we can’t hurt business no matter how many people die” is insane.
Friend, what the fuck are you talking about?
Funny how you read stuff
- Read the post from the M.D. about waitperson, think “Is this the bad part?”
- Read the “No” …
- Read the title about empathy.
- Re-read both the M.D. post and “No”, aaah now I got it 💡
“Waitperson” is kinda lame too, tho. Call them “waiters” ffs.
When we stopped calling female actors “actresses” we didn’t start calling them “actpersons”.
YES totally understandable. That’s why I did the title like how it is, or people would (understandably) make the awful mistaken conclusion I think Doris is cool or something.
Is this person asking people not to go out when sick (reasonable) or are they asking people not to go out at all? How is the waitperson supposed to make a living if people don’t go out to eat? COVID is endemic now. It’s not going away no matter how much we mask or stay home.
The former probably. Person was either positive or positively exposed would be my guess.
I’m not sure what they were expecting, to be honest.
What is a “waitperson”?
I think “server” or “waiter” are more commonly used words but they’re all roughly the same. It’s usually a person working in a restaurant that take orders, gets drinks, delivers food, etc.
