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I think it depends. I have lupus so I’ve got a low grade fever pretty frequently even though for the most part I’m perfectly fine. I’m certainly not contagious.

I think it depends. I have lupus so I’ve got a low grade fever pretty frequently even though for the most part I’m perfectly fine. I’m certainly not contagious. In the early days of the pandemic I was turned away once — in front of everyone! The judgment I felt from the others in line was awful. Like I’d done something wrong for being unable to control sometime completely beyond my control. The anxiety from that one experience was enough to keep me home unless I had absolutely no choice but to go somewhere. It was certainly more than just an “inconvenience” to me and my family and no one around me was ever at risk of death because I had been diligent in masking and social distancing from the beginning.

hobs 5y ago
And while your experience was poor the practice of turning away those with a fever is a sane best practice. It happened one time in am embarrassing manner, and that sucks, but when you put your grief next to the millions of people that died we can probably just continue to do this thing and deal with the embarrassing outcomes as they crop up.
- ameister14 5y ago
  >It happened one time in am embarrassing manner, and that sucks, but when you put your grief next to the millions of people that died we can probably just continue to do this thing and deal with the embarrassing outcomes as they crop up. That's only valid if the millions of people that died would not have died had people been turned away with fevers. From my understanding that is not the case.
- elliekelly 5y ago
  Yes, for you the embarrassing outcome is a one-off. But for me (and others) it was a distinct possibility every single time I left the house. Do you see the difference?
  - hobs 5y ago
    There's no difference except in my miscommunication - I used the term once because you described it as a single event, I did not mean to imply that it could not happen again or wasnt happening often and inopportunely, but instead to comment on the contrast between a measured event that sucks and millions of measured events that suck way more.

hobs 5y ago

And while your experience was poor the practice of turning away those with a fever is a sane best practice. It happened one time in am embarrassing manner, and that sucks, but when you put your grief next to the millions of people that died we can probably just continue to do this thing and deal with the embarrassing outcomes as they crop up.

ameister14 5y ago
>It happened one time in am embarrassing manner, and that sucks, but when you put your grief next to the millions of people that died we can probably just continue to do this thing and deal with the embarrassing outcomes as they crop up. That's only valid if the millions of people that died would not have died had people been turned away with fevers. From my understanding that is not the case.
elliekelly 5y ago
Yes, for you the embarrassing outcome is a one-off. But for me (and others) it was a distinct possibility every single time I left the house. Do you see the difference?
- hobs 5y ago
  There's no difference except in my miscommunication - I used the term once because you described it as a single event, I did not mean to imply that it could not happen again or wasnt happening often and inopportunely, but instead to comment on the contrast between a measured event that sucks and millions of measured events that suck way more.