Funny how you read stuff
- Read the post from the M.D. about waitperson, think "Is this the bad part?"
- Read the "No" ...
- Read the title about empathy.
- Re-read both the M.D. post and "No", aaah now I got it 💡
"Waitperson" is kinda lame too, tho. Call them "waiters" ffs.
When we stopped calling female actors "actresses" we didn't start calling them "actpersons".
YES totally understandable. That's why I did the title like how it is, or people would (understandably) make the awful mistaken conclusion I think Doris is cool or something.
I mean, we have very little context here. But how I currently read it I'll have to agree with the "No". If you go to a party then you'll obviously run the risk of getting ill with COVID or something else like the flu, but at the moment you run that risk pretty much everywhere. COVID, the flu, and the other viruses are no longer a threat to any functioning health system. They're still a threat to many individuals, but that in and of itself is not reason to stop living your life. At some point we've concluded that the pandemic is over and the risk is no longer big enough to stop living our life. And that unfortunately means that some immunocompromised people run a big risk, but we can't stop enjoying our lifes forever or protect a few people.
Quarantining after you get sick is not "stop living life", it's a week or two of staying inside while you're still transmissible. It's not too much to ask.
It's scary how many people have the attitude that the person above does. It's so easy to just avoid being around people when not feeling well. In fact, it's always been the general expectation. It's been an eye opener seeing how many people think they're being oppressed because we ask them to consider other people around them.
I feel the same about people who take some sort of sick pride in coming to work when they're sick. Stay the fuck home, people! No one wants your disease.
Am I missing some context for the original post? The above commenter didn't say anything about getting sick and going out, I read the comment as being about going out in general.
Did the person in the thread mention being sick?
COVID is still more deadly than any modern disease, excepting AIDS and the Spanish Flu, and it's currently killing lots of people. Just because we're having a collective delusion about COVID being harmless now does not make it so. (Nor does refusing to collect data on it.) Reality is still there even if you stop believing in it, etc.
Huh, I assumed this was during the COVID-19 epidemic, but yeah, it'd be nice if the US became much more aware of common infectious diseases. The Capitalism drives us to come in to work drugged up, even when we're highly infectious (often infecting the department).
I'm pretty isolated, myself, and got two colds (differing symptoms!) this year.
Since one of the family at this year's Christmas gathering is immunocompromised, I stayed home, since I wasn't yet clearly on the mend.
So yeah, it'd be nice if we could depoliticize anti-pathogen hygiene. I've learned in my old age not to expect great things from human society.
What is a "waitperson"?
I think “server” or “waiter” are more commonly used words but they’re all roughly the same. It’s usually a person working in a restaurant that take orders, gets drinks, delivers food, etc.
I'm not sure what they were expecting, to be honest.
