Sick People..........STAY HOME, GET WELL!!

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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Before you retired, did you go to work and someone had a bad cold there? Coughing, sneezing at their desk or wherever? Did you catch their cold? How did you feel about them going to work sick and spreading around the germs?

Have you ever gone shopping and seen someone coughing and sneezing in a store? Did you "run like heck" away from them (well, not "run" for-to-say, but get away from them)?

This isn't the first time my wife has run into this at a job. This last Monday a young girl at work was coughing like mad and someone ask her about it. She said she haspneumonia. My wife talked to the person that talked to her and found this out. Now, whether the girl actually had pneumonia or just a bad cold or even the flu.........what the heck was she doing at work?? The company has sick days! Actually, we think my wife caught some of what she has and we've both been taking a cold and sinus med since Monday.

We've heard people at church, during the Service, coughing and sneezing. Gee, can't you wait to go to church until you are better?? We also hear the coughing and sneezing in restaurants.

Wife and I know our immune system isn't nearly as good as it was years ago.

There was a fairly big media thing on last winter talking about people who have no medical insurance or sick days that say they have to go to work. One gal said, "either go to work sick or don't feed my kid and I for a week for staying at home".

What do you think?
 

If you have a job that is essential you have no choice....
 

BTW ClassicRockr, if it was really pneumonia; the girl would not have been able to get to work...
 
Most people don't even know how to treat basic symptoms or sanitation. So showing up to work shouldn't be a surprise.
 
Most people think that the air on-board aircraft is the most bacteria laden air one will find. Nothing could be further from the truth. Factually speaking, the air on-board aircraft is of hospital quality, which is supposedly 90-95% clean air. The air that passengers breathe is a mixture of fresh and re-circulated air and the mixture is not controlled by the pilot. Boeing presets it at the factory. Not sure how Airbus's system works.
 
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Yes, it is a "bad situation", but a serious one to those who's immune systems are "older and lower".

As far as "people don't have sick days is not totally correct. During my "working years" I only worked at a couple of places that didn't have paid sick days (5) per year. My wife said it was the same for her. Manufacturing companies, like the ones I worked for, had sick days. My wife has worked in both manufacturing and banking/mortgaging and she has always got 5 paid sick days per year.

QUOTE=rkunsaw;136602]It's a bad situation, but most people don't have paid sick days. Either go to work or lose pay. Insurance has nothing to do with it.[/QUOTE]
 
I did see a guy today in a Wal Mart store with a white surgical mask over his face........which meant he was sick and to prevent spreading germs, he wore this mask. I wore one of those once as well. Now, IMO, that is really smart!

I did find out that the gal, where my wife works, did have a Dr. appointment on Tuesday. She didn't come in that day or for the rest of the week. Why she came in on that Monday, don't know. I think her doctor told her how really sick she was and that he didn't recommend her going back to work. She must have listened to him.......good!

Do we get away from someone in a store that is coughing.......as fast as we can! I was feeling fine on Monday, and didn't go anywhere outside of our apartment, until my wife came home from work. She told me about the lady at work who was coughing/sneezing like heck and later that night, we were both taking cold medicine! I wound up switching over to sinus medicine. I know it came from the gal where my wife works.

Years ago, my immune system was in much better shape than it is today.
 
I am diabetic and so my immune system is supposedly compromised but I just don`t get sick. Haven`t had a cold or flu in over 40 years. Have had bacterial meningitis (once),Shingles (once) and a sinus infection (one) since 1972. My BIL used to come to work sick all.the.time,for 34 years. We worked in the same office,touched the same phones and doorknobs for all those years but neither dh or I ever caught his colds or flus. Not sure why.
 
Just my thinking but I wish doctor offices and clinic offices would have seating set aside apart from the main seating area for those with sneezing & coughing.
 
The people at my work..come in..full of colds/flu...pass it on to everyone and then decide to stay at home the next day..

I have had people who have never spoken to me before, come into my office..and stand there coughing and hacking...

Why???
 
Lee said:
Just my thinking but I wish doctor offices and clinic offices would have seating set aside apart from the main seating area for those with sneezing & coughing.
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You are ahead of your time. My doctor's office has a separate room for ill people with suspected upper respiratory issues, colds, flues and the like. I believe there are about ten chairs in their. They also make those that enter the room put on a mask. I get a check-up for MRSA along with my annual physical each year. The airline always required it, so I stuck with it. Probably not a bad idea.
 
Well, wife just called me from work, during her lunch, and told me the lady who said she has pneumonia is back. The lady talked to another lady that has a desk close to my wife's and told that lady that the doctor told her she has a spot of pneumonia on her lung. She also said that she has quit smoking for the last three days. The lady is still on antibiotic's, but I'm still wondering why she is back at work. My wife told her "you should be home in bed" and the lady told her "I'm not contagious". What do I think of that........."not contagious? I'm not so sure about that"! I asked my wife to speak with her Supervisor about the situation. Should this lady be at work, walking around and talking to co-workers, if she has a pneumonia spot on her lung and is coughing???

As for me, I haven't had to take any kind of cold medicine since taking the sinus med last Friday afternoon. Now, my wife had to take a cold tablet yesterday evening. She hadn't taken anything since last Thursday night. Now, on Saturday, we did eat breakfast out and go to Wal Mart. Went by the guy that was wearing the surgical mask, so don't know if her needing to take cold medicine on Sunday evening had anything to do with walking by him or not.

If either or both of us start taking cold or sinus med tonight, I'm going to be pi**ed! Can't do anything about it, but, I'll be upset.

My wife is on vacation next week and she sure isn't going to like it if she is sick all week.
 
Pneumonia isn't usually passed from person to person; if the lady's doctor has told her she is not contagious; I suspect she isn't.
taking a cold medicine isn't going to help against pneumonia anyway....my advice is; just chill..
 
You did use the word "usually", below. But, still, being at work with a spot of pneumonia on the lung and going around the office talking about it.........it that a good idea?? Lucky for me, when I got a spot of pneumonia on my lung, and was coughing like heck, I was unemployed. But, I was around my wife at night and she didn't catch anything.

What do you mean by "just chill"?? There's a lady in my wife's office that has a spot of pneumonia on her lung, told to her by her doctor! I'm spent some years working in senior health care and know just how easy it can be for folks in our age group, and older, to get sick. And, on top of that, being a Diabetic doesn't help one darn bit.

Vivjen said:
Pneumonia isn't usually passed from person to person; if the lady's doctor has told her she is not contagious; I suspect she isn't.
taking a cold medicine isn't going to help against pneumonia anyway....my advice is; just chill..
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ancient mariner said:
You really don't expect everyone who feels sick to stay home, do you? What dream world do you live in?
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You don’t really like me, do you? I can tell. Oh well.

Perhaps it’s time for me to leave this forum (again). Actually, I thought things might have changed. Guess not.
 

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