To expect people ill with Covid stay home?

Wow your financial greed at the expense of someone else’s health is bewildering

Depends what you define as cosy wfh. If cosy wfh includes travelling and being away an average of 2+
nights a week no.

you seem to be missing the point that if everyone did the right thing and didn’t unecesssrily go into work / other activities to avoid spreading it then their own health would benefit…. As they’d not be picking it up from others.

Oh bless you , you have no idea have you ?

How would you know you dont know peoples financial postions
And may i actually remind you that even at the height of the pandemic the whole point of the stay at home order was to stop the the NHS from being overwhelmed
Currently the NHS is not overwhelmed so there is no obligation to stay home so stop trying to make people feel guilty.

Other employees are workplaces… they shouldn’t need employers to tell them to stay off for them to give a shit.

similarly, if they’ll only give a shit when paid to do so then they’re ironically complaining about employers doing exactly the same!

No-one should allow themselves to be in such a precarious situation they can’t afford to take a few days sick I mean, what would they actually do if they were so sick they were unable to work? It doesn’t make sense

Only on mumsnet could wanting to keep your income to provide for your family be considered a bad thing 🤣🤣 you’re off your trolley

You’re not my problem attitude is shocking. Where is your sense of community? If we all adopted your attitude society would fall apart

Surely day or two of sick leave won’t leave anyone financially unstable. I think your hyperbole is clouding the picture

No, it’s not more important. The money in my bank pays for my home and supports my family.

Statuory sick pay is peanuts and yes peoole generally put their own health and well being and that of their families before that of strangers
Im guessing you yourself have a nice cosy wfh job ?

Can’t you see then someone’s health is maybe more important than the money going into your bank account? Plus, if we all stayed at home (and worked from home if possible) rather than spread it then you’d have to plough on less often. It’s just about being considerate to others

A Bradford score is only an indicator to identify someone potentially abusing sick leave. If you’re sick then you’re not abusing sick leave. It’s odd to even consider it, I’m not sure anyone even thinks about their never mind knows what it is

I’ve never understood people who cough and splutter everywhere, spreading their bugs around rather than doing the decent thing and staying at home (including WFH) until not infectious. Even for those with compromised immune systems, it’s awful being unwell so why deliberately spread it when there’s ways to avoid it. I also don’t buy “sick pay isn’t enough” excuses - you’re literally saying the money going into your bank account is more important than someone else’s health and wellbeing.

This. I sympathise tho with people who are immunosuppressed, but its down to companies to set a policy that people work from home if infectious - otherwise people who stay off may be penalised for it.

I am immunocompromised and know they're not foolproof but I'm not going to spend the rest of my life not leaving the house.

So why do you still feel you need to stay at home? I'm genuinely interested as I'm immunocompromised too but I feel safe going out because I'm jabbed.

Also wish people would stop the it's just a cold stuff. There is increasing medical evidence of long term immune system and other biological changes to people after covid, even in healthy people without long covid

I went to work with it. Only because I am expected to and because it affects my Bradford score. It’s not my fault my employers expect me to plough through.

My work would expect people to wfh. Its worth one person being wfh for a week than a load of colleagues coming down with it, some who will be worse than others and end up going off sick completely (not wfh). So it's seen as a kind if false economy to come in when you're ill.

Of course it's different if you can't wfh or your employer would rather have you in infecting others even if you can wfh.

What would be really good is if people that had to go into work, actually recognised that for lots of people it's not just a cold, and tried their best not to spread it. Lots of people suffer with long covid or other complications and I think its selfish not to wear a mask, open windows or whatever else they can do to avoid passing it on.

I think it's beyond selfish to do an exercise class with covid.

Check what year we're in? If you're actually claiming Covid is a cold I think you need to check what planet you're on.

Couldn't agree more!

Bet your workplace gets a lot of people going off sick then. Far more, I imagine, than if people weren't placed under the sort of ludicrous pressure UK workplaces put on their staff to work when they're ill and probably not even that productive anyway, and were able to actually take a bit of time to recuperate. The logic fail is blindingly obvious, but unfortunately too many workplaces only care about profits and not people.

BTW for many people Covid isn't 'like a cold'.

People who are immunocompromised or live with someone who is need to as there are measures that can be put in place for those who are, that get Covid, to help it from getting really serious.
I have cancer. I need to know if people have it to stay away. A colleague of a friend died of it last week. I tell friends that if they want to see me and feel ill to stay away, you would be surprised how many turn up with 'just a cold', I ended up in hospital with 'just a cold'.
Hope that answers your question @EmeraldShamrock000

Oh dear …