COVID - what’s it like in your office these days (Fall 2023)?
Wondering if anyone else has been experiencing a surge in COVID lately. About 75% of my team (including myself) tested positive in the past two weeks and one girl’s aunt is unfortunately hospitalized due to severe cough/breathing issues (she thinks she infected her aunt and feels terrible).
Taking covid tests in 2023 as a young adult?
Really?
There are people whose partners are immunocompromised, people who go home on the weekends to help care for their grandparents, or perhaps they themselves just went through a major medical procedure. All of these situations warrant COVID testing - even in 2023.
Learn to have empathy. It’ll help your career as you become a people manager. If you got nothing helpful or nice to say, best to stay silent.
One can have empathy without pretending that fringe outcomes are the norm.
Waaaaa anyone disagrees with what I see as reasonable has no empathy
Yes, people still test even in 2023. I for example see my parents pretty often and they have certain medical conditions: if I’m not feeling well for some reason, then I’d do a COVID test before I visit mom and dad.
Any other questions?
There used to be a term for people getting sick in the fall - flu season.
Pick up in cases certainly. A Principal who sits two rows away from me went to the ER and was put on IV for one day (dangerously high fever).
I have recently seen more people sending emails to be wfh
A few people have gotten a cold recently
We are WFH 1x per week but I think it’s easier to just go into office (given tech set-up / many screens etc)
I am sure we all know more people than we can count on our two hands that have used the ol' Covid excuse to get a full week or two of WFH. I am sure that will pick up again this fall. Never let a crisis go to waste when there is some upside for you.
It's basically the flu. The reality everyone lived with normally pre-2020 was that people can get sick with the common cold and because they maintain such poor health they still keel over. It's fall heading into winter so people are generally going to be more sick now that other points during the year. Move on with life.
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Hard to believe it has been 3 years and people are still politicizing covid - covid showed the world how easy it is to turn Americans against each other.
If you’re sick, stay home and try not to infect others like a decent human being, like we did before covid. A bunch of people in my office are sick right now and it’s annoying when some still come in and are coughing all over the place.
My mom just got a booster Covid shot this week.
Pretty astounding how political and divisive this post got. The original question was fairly innocuous.
Some of the comments in this thread, yall wouldn’t dare say it in-person to your client, your investors, or even internally to colleagues.
Some people still test in 2023. Some people still get their boosters. Live and let live.
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