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Pandemic personal consequences

Mrs Q's God-fearing aunt (early 70ish) hasn't had the vaccine since she felt it would show her faith wasn't strong enough. However it seems that despite her praying every day, God has failed to keep his end of the bargain and she has caught the lurgy.
Her husband has been vaccinated so we will get some first hand information on how effective it is (after one jab at least)
Mrs Q has warned me of consequences if I say anything cynical but I am biting my tongue so hard it hurts.
 
My mums cousin died last week, she was 60. Not a member of the family I know at all. She apparently stayed home the last 12 months and people were calling on her. One day someone went and she was behaving strangely and talking to a care bear as if it were her dead mother. She was hospitalised and caught covid there.

This morning the husband of someone I managed in my previous job died. He'd been in hospital for some time. I'd got the idea he wasn't a very nice man while I supervised her and a friend later confirmed it. I couldn't help thinking maybe now she can have a nice life without him.
 
We've just 'booked' to go to synagogue for the first time in over a year on the first weekend of April. They are reopening from this week, with lower numbers, masks, only sitting in family groups, shorter service etc as they did last summer. Just over 3 months to daughter's bat mitzvah, where we'll have to assume conditions will be the same, so we'd better go at least a few times to know what to expect and just get back into the whole thing.
 
Work colleague A is sat in work with flu symptoms/ fatigue, other colleague B has just phoned to ask where the nearest testing centre is & what is lateral flow testing & should she go there... :facepalm:

B recognises symptoms as he & family had Covid over Xmas (though no-one got tested).

I directed them to the link for walk-in testing when you have symptoms.

I am on my way into work now, but figure I should book a lateral flow testing as I am a recent contact? Sat next to her all day Friday....
 
Was discussing with my partner last night whether C19 will finally change the culture of people continuing to go into work with cold/flu symptoms - he was optimistic that it would; me, not so much.

Even pre-pandemic it pissed me off when ppl would come in and cough and splutter everywhere.

Properly raging on your behalf!
 
hegley said:
Was discussing with my partner last night whether C19 will finally change the culture of people continuing to go into work with cold/flu symptoms - he was optimistic that it would; me, not so much.

Even pre-pandemic it pissed me off when ppl would come in and cough and splutter everywhere.

Properly raging on your behalf!
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Its a big problem and has actively been encouraged by companies and management. People boasting that they've not taken a day of work for years or how they were really ill but still dragged themselves in. The actual consequence being of course that illness sweeps through a company and productivity goes through the floor. Stupid and short sighted and it needs to stop.
 
LynnDoyleCooper said:
Personally think coming to work ill should be some sort of disciplinary issue. Alongside proper sick pay etc etc.

At my last job (NHS!) going off sick was pretty much looked at as a disciplinary issue ffs.
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Agreed. I guess there essentially two strands to this the macho management bollocks but there is also the other side that a lot of employers will stick on SSP from day one. I think most of us would go to work if the difference is full pay and SSP, that is unless we were very ill.
 
Teaboy said:
Agreed. I guess there essentially two strands to this the macho management bollocks but there is also the other side that a lot of employers will stick on SSP from day one. I think most of us would go to work if the difference is full pay and SSP, that is unless we were very ill.
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Also is hard to gauge at home how ill you feel - we are all knackered at work all the time at the moment, as part-time furloughed so never enough time to get it all done...*

& credit to colleague B, as (to be fair to colleague A) it doesn't sound like she has the official symptoms, he just recognised enough unofficial ones & is being cautious.

At least, our days don't overlap too much though.

*this is a smallish company, genuinely trying to drag itself through this!
 
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The problem with making it a disciplinary matter to come in sick is that it is so often a grey area whether or not one is "sick". I can't count how many days in my life when I've woken up with a sore throat that subsequently dissipates by about 10am. I suspect this is caused by a tendency to sleep with my mouth open, although I don't really have any way of knowing. So if I wake up with a sore throat, is that a sign of illness or just a sign of sleeping badly? I have to make a decision straight away if I'm going to leave the house by 7am, as I need to. If I guess it's just poor sleep and go in but it turns out to be something worse, am I subject to disciplinary action?
 
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