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Stay Home When You're Sick!
theodp writes "If you've got Google CEO Larry Page's billions, you can reduce your chances of getting sick this winter by personally providing free flu shots to all San Francisco Bay Area kids at Target pharmacies. 'Vaccinating children,' explains the Shoo the Flu initiative's website, 'will not only improve children's health, it will also dramatically reduce the risk of the flu spreading to adults.' But Tim Olshansky doesn't have Page's money, so he'll have to settle for trying to get it through people's thick heads that they really have to stay home when they're sick. 'Why do people still come to the office when they're coughing up a lung?' asks the exasperated Olshansky. 'Because unfortunately, there is a still a strong perverse culture that equates staying at home when sick with weakness. This is a flawed belief and should be questioned. Given that we have the tools now to complete most tasks from home, there is no strong reason to compel people to come to the workplace.' So, does your employer encourage employees to stay home when they're sick? How?"
Well, at my company, if someone is sick they could lose a $100,000 contract by missing a meeting with a customer so nobody gives a damn if you're sick, lol. Another salesman could easily fill in but that'd steal their commission so that's strictly forbidden. I have a different way of dealing with this and I haven't been sick for several years. First, after a while after I've touched a lot of stuff out in the general public, I wash my hands. You know, stuff like doorknobs and gas station pumps and shopping carts.
Second, I don't touch my face or nose or mouth while my hands are "under quarantine" lol.
Third, if I start to feel an illness coming on that's respiratory-based, I immediately take a ton of direct, localized zinc (so not a pill) and stay away from acidic foods or drinks so it doesn't oxidize and it instantly prevents germs from attaching to the cells along the mucous membranes of my nose. Keep re-zincing until my T-cells form to combat the now idle viruses and it's like a free vaccination. If you're going to call me a homeopathic hippie, you might want to read the high profile report (covered on 20/20) that stated zinc was found to reduce the lifetime of a cold by 3x. Really it just cures/prevents it outright. Shortly after that report was released, all major US cities sold completely out of zinc supplements.