COVID - what’s it like in your office these days (Fall 2023)?

Taking covid tests in 2023 as a young adult?

Really?

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.

4 things to know about the spooky C:

1. >75% of people dying in any given country with Covid (fun rabbit hole - get run over by a bus but got the C? Guess what you died of...) are either already above life expectancy or had 4+ co-morbidities (i.e. they're already old and have a weak immune system or just had bad health to begin with)
2. ~80% of all Covid hospitalizations are morbidly obese people (hit the gym and stop being a fatty)
3. Vitamin D deficiency is one of the single biggest predictors of severe Covid reaction & death (go outside, get some sun, and touch some grass) 
4. 100% of people still wearing masks while they sit alone in their cars or who are seriously worried about Covid need to ditch the binky & blanky and grow up

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.