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The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The CDC says this year's flu season is on track to either rival or dethrone 2009's swine flu. 3,000 people across the U.S. have died as a result of the flu in the first 20 days of 2018, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and that number has likely risen. If you want to avoid the flu (and of course you do) the National Institute of Health says orange juice won't cut it. Instead, the best flu prevention is a vaccine, and it's not too late to get one. Pair a flu shot with frequent hand washing, and avoiding touching your eyes, nose, or mouth so you don't transfer any virus from your hands, and you just might manage to avoid the flu.
In most of the US there are no paid sick days for restaurant workers.
So when you are drinking your soda and eating your sandwich, ask yourself if the sandwich maker could afford to take a sick day.
Is America a truly modern country without universal healthcare or paid time off for illness?
Not reasonable when your employers are greedy bastards, that is. Paid sick or better yet personal days should be the norm.
Logic fail. Taking the vaccine doesn't prevent you from washing your hands, so arguing for hand-washing is not arguing against vaccine. A sensible person would do both.
I have also heard that this year's vaccine is less effective than it should be. All medication is a trade-off between risks, side effects, and benefits, and this year the benefits are falling way short. If side effects or risks are normally something you have to think about, this is a year when you may want to think twice. But if you're blessed with the privilege of not normally having to worry about taking the vaccine, it is still, as they say, "worth a shot."
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Paid sick or better yet personal days should be the norm.
Most full-time employees have a number of hours PTO they can take; at least in the professional world, this is the case....
The problem is many employers now lump sick days and vacation together into the same pool. This causes people to not want to use PTO for sick days since it cuts into their vacation. There really is no good fix for this other than employers trusting their employees, which would allow for unlimited sick days (or at least unlimited until short term disability is more appropriate).
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
I managed to catch the flu like 3 times around Sept-December
So you were (sequentially) infected by all three different circulating strains of the influenza virus within the span of a few months - or you're one of those people who doesn't actually know the difference between colds and the flu?
It's not a trade off of risks. They have to guess what strains are likely to be the virulent ones this season (since they mutate so often). This year they guessed wrong, so only 30% of the strains going around are covered.
Now 30% is much greater than 0%, but it's still a one-in-three shot.
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There are a large number of viruses out there that cause flu-like symptoms that are not actually the flu. The flu vaccine will never protect you from any of these other viruses. So regardless of whether or not you get the flu vaccine it is best to avoid sick people and take other precautions such as proper sanitation.
There is no mention of airports in TFS.
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I didn't exercise, ate poorly, and smoked a pack a day for 20 years. I hardly ever got sick either.
There could quite possibly be a correlation there. If your habits made people shy away from you more than an average person, you would also be less likely to become infected.
If everybody had halitosis, diseases would have a harder time spreading.
Garlic. Raw, well-chewed garlic. Has compounds with anti-viral, anti-fungal, and antibacterial properties. Cures and protects from the common cold.
Check out the science behind it.
https://www.healthline.com/nut...