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I was at a baby shower recently. Of the ~30 participants, over a dozen came down with a cold the following day. We later learned that, indeed, someone there was

I was at a baby shower recently. Of the ~30 participants, over a dozen came down with a cold the following day. We later learned that, indeed, someone there was sick, knew they were sick, and came anyway. I didn't get the brunt of it, I've just had some minor throat irritation for the past ~2 weeks, thankfully, but a few folks were actually quite sick and had to take time off of work. I'd love to avoid sick people. Can we make them wear signs saying that they're sick?

thrwaway69 7y ago
Make an app and track sick people to avoid /s
jointpdf 7y ago
>Can we make them wear signs saying that they’re sick? Not really, since people with viral infections (e.g. cold, flu, corona virus) are often contagious before showing symptoms.
Galanwe 7y ago
If the only possibility for sick people is to either come, or stay home, then I think there will always be some of them that would prefer to come even though they might contaminate others. In Asia, there is a culture of wearing face masks when you're sick. This serves as both a signal to others, and also helps reduce your infected droplet emission. Also it means you can still go to events and not have to stay home. Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Once the critical mass of people decide to do so, then people won't feel weird about it and will all start to take that habit.
- scruple 7y ago
  My (Asian-American) wife wears a mask at work because half of the people around her are sick. A few of the other Asian folks in her office do the same thing. No idea about the effectiveness of wearing a mask as protection, but if I had to go into an office for work I would do the same thing during flu season, weird or not.
- ssivark 7y ago
  > Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Part of the problem is that people might get (subtly) shames/shunned for being out and about with a cold if they turn up wearing a mask. So they get pushed into the less obvious but more pernicious solution. (A measure that is managed ceases to be a useful measure)
war1025 7y ago
Our local library has a great area for kids to play. Only problem is about once a month we get sick after going there. Usually its just a cold or something. But it's been the stomach flu at least once. Would avoid it, but damn if its not a convenient place for the kids to play in the evenings.

thrwaway69 7y ago

Make an app and track sick people to avoid /s

jointpdf 7y ago

>Can we make them wear signs saying that they’re sick? Not really, since people with viral infections (e.g. cold, flu, corona virus) are often contagious before showing symptoms.

Galanwe 7y ago

If the only possibility for sick people is to either come, or stay home, then I think there will always be some of them that would prefer to come even though they might contaminate others. In Asia, there is a culture of wearing face masks when you're sick. This serves as both a signal to others, and also helps reduce your infected droplet emission. Also it means you can still go to events and not have to stay home. Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Once the critical mass of people decide to do so, then people won't feel weird about it and will all start to take that habit.

scruple 7y ago
My (Asian-American) wife wears a mask at work because half of the people around her are sick. A few of the other Asian folks in her office do the same thing. No idea about the effectiveness of wearing a mask as protection, but if I had to go into an office for work I would do the same thing during flu season, weird or not.
ssivark 7y ago
> Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Part of the problem is that people might get (subtly) shames/shunned for being out and about with a cold if they turn up wearing a mask. So they get pushed into the less obvious but more pernicious solution. (A measure that is managed ceases to be a useful measure)

war1025 7y ago

Our local library has a great area for kids to play. Only problem is about once a month we get sick after going there. Usually its just a cold or something. But it's been the stomach flu at least once. Would avoid it, but damn if its not a convenient place for the kids to play in the evenings.