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As a mother with children, the idea of a sick room is terrifying. It's bad enough to bring a sick kid (or even post-sick kid) into an office full of otherwise h
by karmel 10y ago
As a mother with children, the idea of a sick room is terrifying. It's bad enough to bring a sick kid (or even post-sick kid) into an office full of otherwise healthy people, but the idea of my kid then being incubated in a room with everyone else's sick-kid germs, touching things and sleeping in the same sleeping bag... ick.
As a manager, my policy is that the worse thing you can do is infect us all. If you are sick, please, quarantine yourself! Work from home. You will not be dinged for working at home, but if I end up sick, I will be grumpy indeed ;)
- Bartweiss 10y agoThis was my first thought also. Dealing with illness is always hard, but the idea of having a room full of hard-to-sanitize objects like sleeping bags, specifically for sick people, is downright alarming. Daycares, schools, and hospitals are already excellent at spreading illness. Setting aside a non-sanitized room for sick kids (or adults) seems like a way to ensure that everyone leaves sicker than they came in.
- snowwrestler 10y agoYou guys are looking at it all wrong. A sick kid room is like a little workout gym for their immune systems. EDIT: while this is somewhat true, I was trying to make a joke
- ch4s3 10y agoAnd like lifting weights, if you go too hard too fast you'll get yourself into trouble. Except lifting doesn't make your neighbors' muscles sore.
- Buttons840 10y agoYeah. It's like a trading card game except the cards automatically copy themselves and make people miserable. "I'll give you my strain of the cold if you give me your strain of the flu." It seems people think that if you're already sick you can't get another illness added on top.