This is a RANT! If you don’t like reading a RANT…then move on!
The start of the flu and cold season is here. On top of that, the first Ebola case has arrived in the United States, meaning…the first person actually diagnosed on U.S. soil, not counting the previous healthcare workers who were later transported here for treatment.
With that said, it is more important than ever for people to sit up and take notice. That means this…
1. If you are sick…stay home! Don’t go into work, don’t go out shopping, don’t run your freaking errands…STAY HOME!
2. If your kids are sick…keep them at home! I don’t care if it is “field trip day”, a special “test day” or they have an athletic game that they “can’t” miss.
Every year millions of people are infected with flu’s, colds, viruses and a whole host of other germs & infections simply because sick people don’t keep their asses at home and isolate themselves from the “healthy” population. Frankly, I am tired of it!
As a mother to now an adult daughter and a grandmother to a child who is in Kindergarten…I know it can be difficult at times to miss work or to put up with a crying child who wants to go to school. However, that is total nonsense! Keep yourself and your kids at home when sick!
No excuses people! I am tired of hearing:
“I can’t miss work, I need the pay”
“My kid already missed a lot of school, can’t miss anymore days”
“I don’t have anyone available to watch my sick child”
“I have an important meeting & deadline, I must meet it”
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah….they are all piss-poor excuses! It is time for the excuses to stop and for everyone to take responsibility for their actions. Please…if you or your children are sick…STAY HOME!
To All Employers/Companies: If employees show up to work sick, send their asses home & tell them not to return until no longer sick or with a doctor’s excuse stating they are not infectious!
To All Schools & Daycare Centers: If kids are dropped off sick, send them back home! Period!
It is so true that too many people do not keep their sick kids at home or themselves either. I agree with your rant and am sorry that both you and your husband were sick. Sometimes when you get the flu shot it aggravates any cold symptoms you have.
I have known folks that have the cough variant asthma Anne, and it sounds to me at least totally different than the folks carrying colds around. I am so sorry people have to treat you the way they do.
My husband aand I have been ill, and we havent gone anywhere at all for a week. Not even to the store… and we have tried telling people when they want to come over to please put it off.
I had just gotten my darn flu shot 2 days before it hit me!
Ah, Shelly, I love your rant posts. There is no questioning how you feel about things, that’s for sure! 😀
And I have to agree with you on this one. I have health issues that make me particularly susceptible to respiratory illnesses, so I’m with you when you say that sick people should stay home.
That being said, I have a type of asthma called cough-variant asthma. I cough instead of wheeze. I understand when I’m in the grocery store and mothers shield their babies from me, even though I’m just coughing (into my sleeve, of course) because the air conditioning or scented products in the laundry detergent aisle triggered my asthma. But no one is going to catch asthma from me. Honestly, it’s caused me to become quite agoraphobic, and I only leave the house when I have to. Obviously, I can’t work outside the home (would you hire me? want me talking to your customers or working at the next desk?). And it’s just not worth even going to a restaurant because I can’t enjoy my meal if all the other diners around me are glaring at me because I coughed. My saint of a spouse often tries to explain to the worst of them that it’s just asthma, but that just makes me feel worse.
I know the other commenters to this post won’t understand this, but I hope I never have to meet any of them, because it will cause me pain when they shrink away from me, looking down their noses the whole time. Even just reading their words about hating people who cough makes me want to cry.
There! That was MY rant. Thanks for listening.
May I just start by saying….. AMEN TO THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!! I am a clean freak and a germ freak and I HATE HATE HATE people who go to work sick and who are in the grocery store coughing allllll over everyone else I want to just smack em!! I agree keep your ass at home if you are sick!!! Oh and cover your damn mouth when you cough!!!!!!!!
I cart my disinfectant wipes with me everywhere I go. I wipe down every cart I touch in the store, I wipe down my hands when I leave a store and my steering wheel and when I get home the very first thing I do is wash my hands for like a full minute with hot water and soap! I am already noticing people are out there sick already and it is only October 3, 2014.
I was at the Library the other day and there was this young girl in there who was super sick and threw up on the floor I ran out of there as fast as I could. I hate it when people use the Library as a day care center for their kids.
One tip that I tell my friends and family is to always get a cart when you go into the grocery store even if you are only buying on item. I don’t care if you are only buying a pack of gum – get a cart! Then when you go to check out keep the cart behind you in line this keeps “THEM” off of you while you are paying. I can’t tell you how many times I have been trapped in a check out line with the person behind me coughing allllll over me and I am trapped there. Get a Cart!
Great post love the rants!
Have a great weekend and be careful out there it’s like Thunderdome!!!!!!!
I worked at an Inn in MA. People were so RUDE. They would sneeze Looking at you, right in your face! I would say: Would you please not sneeze (or cough) in my face, I can’t afford to get sick & miss any more work, ‘cuz I don’t get paid for sick time. Then I would laugh and say: Unless you want to pay for my time off work? (That usually worked.) I made the next customer in line wait while I wiped the counter down. They thanked me for doing that! Then they commented how they had never seen anyone put someone in their place so sweetly, and yet so directly! They LOVED it!
I was in Walmart and a woman was coughing and sneezing, at everyone! I looked right at her and said that’s not fair. She looked at me puzzled. I said: Are you going to pay for All of our medicine & doctor bills, because you infected all of us! I can’t afford medicine & doctor bills. I don’t have insurance, I don’t have sick pay! Are you going to pay! You could have waited one or two more days. You did’t have to buy clothes today! You’re not buying soup or tissues. Then she got defensive, so 5 or 6 other people in line said we don’t have sick time at my work, you gonna pay that! One lady patted my shoulder and & thank God you had the nerve to say something, everyone was thinking it.
One last thing, Did you know Avon makes an antibacterial gel that smells like vanilla, not disinfectant. ( I don’t sell Avon, but I do love some of their products) I carry this with me!
I agree with you on this for sure!!! Did you hear that Nancy Sniderman the Medical Correspondent for NBC now has her cameraman down with the Ebola virus and she could get it too! Why are they sending her over there to a death zone! It is too dangerous! Now we have to deal with the deadly Ebola virus. But if you are sick stay home!! That goes for relatives with sick kids. Do not come over to my house if you are sick.
Due to my chronic health problems all of my friends & relatives know that if they are sick…they better not show up at my house as I won’t let their asses in the door.
I don’t blame you!!!
AMEN!! I am so with you on this! No one wants your germs/illness.And now with these new break outs with potentially fatal illnesses people need to be even more careful.