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There's a flu going around in The Netherlands right now, it progresses like this: - Day 1: Fever, fatigue and muscle pain with a dry itchy cough. - Day 2+: Na
by radicalbyte 7y ago
There's a flu going around in The Netherlands right now, it progresses like this:
- Day 1: Fever, fatigue and muscle pain with a dry itchy cough.
- Day 2+: Nausea and diarrhea can be experienced as well as the first day symptoms.
It takes about a week for the worst of the symptoms to die down however the stomach ache, cough and light tiredness last weeks.
My entire family and most of my son's class at school has had it and they're all still recovering. My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time and breastfeeding.
This is what makes the Corona-virus hard: at the start the symptoms are extremely similar to existing flu. Unless the case is extremely severe most people won't see a doctor let alone a hospital.
I don't see how it can be stopped.
- nilsocket 7y agoWhy are you letting your wife work, when she is not in good condition. You take up the work and let her take rest, and also make sure that she eats and sleeps well. Give some good fruits and cook proper vegetarian dish.
- tjr225 7y agoThis seems like an incredibly naive thing to say to someone. Not everyone has the privilege of choosing not to work. Welcome to global capitalism.
- ryanlol 7y agoI would bet that there are far fewer people like that in NL than there are people who would work out of some twisted sense of not being “sick enough”.
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 7y ago> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.
- jlokier 7y agoIf that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.
- mfjordvald 7y agoNetherlands though, not the US. If they're anything like most of Europe then a doctors note is all you need to still be paid while sick more than 1-2 days.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoI think it's even possible to get a sick leave from a business you own in some European countries. But how about if you run the business on your own, and you're concerned that if you take two weeks off the business will lose many customers who won't come back? (I was shocked when I saw the they put the name of the illness on the note. That's so far from my employers business that it should be illegal to even ask. Employees and consumers rights in Germany seem to be seriously limited.)
- wibr 7y agoThe note for your employer does not contain any information about the reason for the sick leave in Germany, the one for your health insurance does.
- JanSt 7y ago"(I was shocked when I saw the they put the name of the illness on the note. That's so far from my employers business that it should be illegal to even ask. Employees and consumers rights in Germany seem to be seriously limited.)" You get multiple papers in Germany. The one without (!) diagnosis is for your employer.
- radicalbyte 7y agoYou can buy insurance from it. It's generally there to cover you from being unable to work for a period of more than a week. So serious stuff. As an employee the employer will have insurance but basically have to eat the cost of short sickness. I'm a freelancer but I've chosen not to buy the insurance. It's very expensive and can survive on her income. I put the money I would have spent into a buffer.
- brutt 7y agoIt's Swine Flu. We have it in our country too. Flu is ok. Swine Flu is bad. Corona is bad. Coinfection of Swine Flu + Corona is super bad because it causes HIV like symptoms, so it's better to be vaccinated against A H1N1 Flu, to worry about 1 virus only.
- nradov 7y agoDid you and your family get the flu vaccine this season?
- protomyth 7y agoNot OP, but all of relatives in the Twin Cities (MN USA) got a similar bad flu, and all got the flu shots. I do believe they missed one this year.
- questionfor 7y ago> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. It should be illegal to go to work sick with easily transmittable diseases.