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What do you think "treating their illness as if it were covid-19" means? This is a viral illness. There is simply no treatment. You go home, rest and eventuall
by kilburn 7y ago
What do you think "treating their illness as if it were covid-19" means?
This is a viral illness. There is simply no treatment. You go home, rest and eventually get through it in most cases. If you have annoying symptoms, you try to alleviate those in the usual ways (as if it was any other cold/flu). If you get life-threatening symptomps, you call for help and they'll take you to the hospital (at least while they aren't completely collapsed).
What would you like the doctor to say or do here?
- mumblemumble 7y agoSorry, ambiguous language. "treat" in the general sense, not specifically in the sense of medical treatment. Specifically, I would like the doctor to say, "Stay the eff home and keep your germs to yourself, sickie." More doctors doing this would also help put pressure on employers to change their policies. Maybe (dare I dream?) we can even get restaurants to start giving their employees sick leave, and encouraging them to use it, instead of requiring them to show up and germ up all the food on pain of losing their jobs.