CDC releases new guidance surrounding covid.
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JonnyHistory
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If you have a transmissible virus you should have to stay home.
It's a tad hyperbolicwhat I will say next but I feel there is truth to it. If you knowingly expose anyone to virus it's essentially assault. You are taking choice away from the other individual.
That being said, this was inevitable, America is going through a job crisis also, people are walking out of jobs and demanding more. This is part of the effort to curb that ride in my opinion.
It's a tad hyperbolicwhat I will say next but I feel there is truth to it. If you knowingly expose anyone to virus it's essentially assault. You are taking choice away from the other individual.
That being said, this was inevitable, America is going through a job crisis also, people are walking out of jobs and demanding more. This is part of the effort to curb that ride in my opinion.
Randy
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It's interesting you mention the jobs crisis. Many lost their jobs or were moved to other areas of work due to their vaccination status. Now the CDC comes out with the second bullet point.
Funky_Chicken
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I’d expect to be sacked if i stayed at home for a cold - not that ever get a cold, or have a boss for that matter
Laughing
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You shouldn't get sacked, boss or no boss. Its the right thing to do. I work from home so would work with a cold but not attend in person meetingsI’d expect to be sacked if i stayed at home for a cold - not that ever get a cold, or have a boss for that matter
Funky_Chicken
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Mate there’d be no one at work in winter if everyone stayed at home when they had a runny nose
Nobby_Barnes
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Yeah righto....and then you woke upor have a boss for that matter
Funky_Chicken
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Rather rude Nobby i have to sayYeah righto....and then you woke up
we’ll talk about this later 
Nobby_Barnes
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Are you still assistant manager at Majestic Wines Northallerton?Rather rude Nobby i have to say
Expat Smoggie
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The US believes in absolute capitalism no matter who is in power. That means if you’re poor and have COVID there will no special attention given to you anymore— time to move on. Last but not least the COVID situation no matter how real it was was politicized to the enth degree of magnitude by most governments.
Laughing
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Not sure about that.
BoroMart
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agreed
BoroMart
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Not at all, yes most people over a 4 month period would have a few days off, but they wouldn't all be off at once. We work too much in western society anyway
Scrote
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You write that as though there's no temporal dimension to the differing rules.
There were (and still are) people telling us that taking a vaccine was the thin end of the wedge and that we'd never be allowed to return to anything like pre-covid normality.
Now that we are starting to get a semblance of pre-normal the same voices are criticising decisions because they aren't as draconian as they were previously.
It'd be funny if it wasn't tragic.
thriftyrhinoceros
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This is such a fallacy it’s unreal imo. I’ve seen it time and time again in my workplace over the years where someone has come in with a cold and it’s then spent the next 2 weeks working its way through the entire department. The loss in productivity from 1 person staying off work for 5 days (or even the 1 or 2 days when they’re most contagious) would have much less of an impact than 10-15 people not being at 100% for a week or more.
You might think you’re at 100% when you have a cold but you’re really not, especially in jobs that are physically demanding or require a high level of mental concentration.
weemoby
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Randy it's interesting that you say:
"Many lost their jobs or were moved to other areas of work due to their vaccination status".
Do you have anything to back up that statement?
Laughing
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Who are these people?
Randy
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Were you living under a rock when care workers were been shunted out of their jobs for example? That didn't just happen just happen in this country WM.