Meanwhile only people with symptoms are tested in the UK. — Punshhh
This makes basically having any old flu a reason for one to take a corona test and quarantine oneself for the time and hence a lot of people are tested...you have countless examples of people going to self quarantine until the test comes back negative. — ssu
I don't know about you, but I would never go to work if I had the flu. Why would you even think of doing such a thing? — Metaphysician Undercover
A wage slave perhaps. In the UK there are people who live from one wage payment to the next and they have to work come what may. Although lockdown does prevent most of this, leaving these people reliant on benefits and vulnerable to eviction and loan sharks etc.So why adhere to such irrational principles?
Two reasons:
2)I never call out...ever. and
1)I go into work every day, no matter what — Merkwurdichliebe
At least officials here are now saying that this time now is the critical for the second wave. The majority of those few new cases reported here do not know where they have gotten the virus. And just to note, they didn't say the same thing in the summer.It is going to be very interesting to watch what happens when flu season really pops off in the next few months. — Merkwurdichliebe
It sounds like you've got some bad habits. It's not healthy for the individual who is sick, or for those in one's surroundings, for a person to go to work sick. So why adhere to such irrational principles? — Metaphysician Undercover
Basically the societies are adapting to a "new normal" of pandemic. — ssu
You are hilarious :lol: I've never heard anyone refer to "reliability", or to "going into work" as a bad habit. — Merkwurdichliebe
Hey man, pushing yourself too hard is unhealthy...Face it, you have an unhealthy attitude toward work which you try to portray as good by calling it "reliability". — Metaphysician Undercover
If we get that vaccine, it won't take long that the pandemic is history...assuming it goes away in 2021. How important will it be depends of course from future events, but if this is a once in 50 to 100 years thing, not much will remain about it. Just as there's absolutely no collective memory of the Spanish flu, and who remembers that we had the "Hong Kong flu"-pandemic in the same year Woodstock happened.It is appaling how fast the tyranny of the masses can effect a new "new normal". I'm pretty sure the "old normal" is dead and extinct. I mostly feel bad for the kids who are growing up in a cowardly faceless world. — Merkwurdichliebe
If one's responsibility and self-discipline in pushing hard is unhealthy and should be avoided as such, then the prospects of excellence in the world look dim. — Merkwurdichliebe
If one's responsibility and self-discipline in pushing hard is unhealthy and should be avoided as such, then the prospects of excellence in the world look dim. Imagine if all the historic world figures were prevented from pushing themselves too hard because it is "unhealthy", we'd all be living in caves. — Merkwurdichliebe
That all said, my personal work ethic has no bearing on the potential implosion that society will incur when flu season kicks off in Covidworld 2020 — Merkwurdichliebe
What likely has happened is that working from home got a real boost from the pandemic and likely companies will look just how much office space they actually need in the future. — ssu
Do you think that the flu is so much more contagious than Covid-19 that it will spread around more than the latter, despite all the mask wearing and distancing? You do realize that there are vaccines for the flu as well, don't you? — Metaphysician Undercover
No, cold-flu season will do what it always does, with one exception: it will conflate the covid panic beyond control, and the resulting fallout will be likely disastrous. — Merkwurdichliebe
You don't think covid is disastrous on its own? — Metaphysician Undercover
Well, from the experience with my daughter I can tell that for first graders it doesn't work, it sucks. Yet have to say that the pandemic was a crash course for teachers on distance learning. For higher classes an especially in tertiary education, it's an option even if the limitations are obvious. We do need that physical contact.I wonder if remote schooling will become a lasting reality as well. — Merkwurdichliebe
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! :death: — Merkwurdichliebe
We do need that physical contact. — ssu
How's Finland? — frank
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