CDC COVID info/guidelines

This is complete insanity. Employers are going to use this to compel sick workers to come to work and infect everyone.
I never had a fever when I had Covid last year. I could have taken down hundreds of people under these new guidelines

I think the reasoning is that they want people to follow the same guidelines as they do with the flu or RSV which is be fever free for 24 hours. I understand the rationale behind it since most people have already had Covid so their reinfection symptoms wouldn't be as severe as when they first had it. I never had any fever but an annoying cough (but nowhere near as bad as I have had with a bad cold where I get bronchitis) and I was just really tired. That was it. I have Fibromyalgia so that could be me on any given day.

I know that some employers will say that people have to come into work but I think most will still be cautious and ask that if you can work from home to please do so.

The increase in masks isn't necessarily because of Covid. RSV and the flu are way more prevalent right now.

Hate to break it to you all, but this has been the reality for millions of US workers for a long time now. Very few people can afford to take five days unpaid if they’re hourly workers. Others work in jobs where being absent like that for several days can cost them their jobs.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but reality is that very little will change for most people with this guidance.

I think @merge is right that this is the reality for many now. That said, as some one who is living with Long Covid and has since late 2020, the risks with Covid and longer term impact of LC are a much greater issue than near term illness and will impact our health costs globally as we continue to have people with chronic LC issues. I so wish we had better infrastructure, policies, etc to support employees and students to stay home when sick.

From what I understand, you can be completely symptom free and test positive for weeks after.  

I've had it twice, no fever either time.  Chills, fatigue, headache, cough, stuffiness in my sinuses, and sore throat were my main things... just like with a bad cold.  The only difference is, it came and went in about 6 days where a cold lingers for a couple of weeks usually. 

Symptoms and severity have varied widely over the last 3 years, but key ones include...brain fog, brain fatigue, slower processing (this was confirmed via testing at neurologist), and also neurological impact tied to vagus nerve/overactive nervous system (racing thoughts, heart rate, nerve tingling/pins and needles in arms and legs, vertigo, weakness, nausea, physical exhaustion). So when I had covid originally, it was like my body got stuck in fight/flight adrenaline rush feeling and the entire 3 weeks were just like one big chaotic rush with my body in overload.  Then that reoccured when I would over extend myself and it was like my body was operating on this super high sensitivity to stress, physical activity, and mental effort so that it would just jump into a big reaction each time that would knock me out for a week or 2 at a time.  

I have made strides, but really all of those symptoms still pop up but less intense and shorter because I am highly managing stimulus, stress, physical exertion, etc.  Lots of lifestyle changes.


ETA - I got sick with the second strain which was still super powerful and pre-vaccine.  Lots of us from the original and second strain got hit pretty hard with LC.

Our kids are already back in school with Covid because their parents can't afford the time off. Same reason they come to school with the flu, etc. 

Our district has a new policy for teachers where after the fourth absence, you get a disciplinary note in your file. Same after 6, 8, and 10. At 10 you are eligible for termination and have to go before a committee to plead your case.

So you can imagine that teachers' young kids are going to school sick as well.

Such. Freaking. BS.

Oh, we hate it too. This is all due to the Greg Abbott-installed superintendent who was sent here to destroy the public schools in part by running off all the certified teachers. Our loathing knows no bounds.

It's outrageous that people aren't being allowed sick time! My boss's boss was bitching about PTO, saying there shouldn't be any sick time. I snapped back "so you just want people to show up and infect the office, or show up the day after a heart attack?" Her response was that people cheat the system. Fine, then address it to the ones who you think are cheating the system!

My SIL has it too and much of what you’ve posted applies to her too. She is a couple years out with it now and she’s still very limited with what she can do because she gets exhausted very quickly. She was effectively retired for several years before Covid, but with LC affecting her the way it has there’s no way she would be able to work even in a limited capacity. I think in time LC is going to emerge as a big problem overall for a huge swath of the population. It’s really sad how badly it affects some people.

Right? And they’d rather #$+& everyone over in order to punish the small percentage of cheaters. 

I can assure you there there are indeed people who are doing so.  We had someone "have Covid" 3 times in a year- they got 30 days out of work, 20 of which were PAID while we were doing distance learning and hybrid learning and whatever other messed up learning type of things that were come up with.

Eta: we get 10 days a year and because of COVID we were given 10 more (not any longer tho) but only those who had Covid got to use those 10 extra days, if you didn't get covid and have to use them (because you used all your sick days already) then you were SOL.

I was such a lucky dog that I got mine the Tuesday Christmas break started and was all ready to go back to work when break was over.  Pissed me the hell off!