Another perspective (as of yesterday)...
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Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016
I do not think this is 100% accurate. Or at least it seems to imply that no action along these lines has been taken.
The eFMLA & PSLA laws passed immediately after COVID-19 require full wages for 10 days and then reduced wages thereafter for all employees of companies employing < 500 people.
Most > 500 employee employers already offer sick leave (as do most employers of any size) but this was the bipartisan reason at the time for leaving them out of the law.
People want haircuts and are prizing reservations upon planned reopening days. This person probably did not think she had covid-19 and simply wanted to keep her customers happy.
The sense of individual exceptionalism ("it's not going to happen to me") is still very strong in communities like mine where incidence of the virus is still extremely low and largely confined to nursing homes and food processing plants.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Any Ozark fans out there? I mean, really, what is there left to say...
https://twitter.com/b1tmcgraw/status...855200768?s=21
“Coach said no 3s.” - Zion on The Block
I used to be like that, push through it. About 10 years ago I decided that there was no reason to push so hard. I also didn't appreciate it when my colleagues would come in coughing, sneezing, spreading their diseases so I decided that it was not only better for me if I stayed home, but it was being more considerate of my friends and colleagues. I decided to show my macho in other ways like bringing in ginormous brownies.
4000 people gathered at Ace Speedway in Alamance County, NC on May 23, 2020. CDC and state guidelines ignored by the crowd. Contact tracing was a do it yourself yellow legal pad that was also mainly ignored.
There should be a case study about this in the future. We will find something out one way or another in a few weeks.
https://www.journalnow.com/sports/wa...3a40e9.html#24
My high school gave +2 points to every 9 weeks of perfect attendance. (9 weeks was the quarterly report card). I can't tell you how mad I was when I got the chicken pox and couldn't attend. I even chewed out the principal that I wouldn't get my 102 and little Suzie what's her name would and just because she had the chicken pox in grade school and I caught it as a sophomore, she'd get to be valedictorian. I tell you, I was a little *@$#^ back in the day. The principal told me how that 2 points discouraged truancy. I let it fly at that point that the kids skipping school didn't give two rat's bottoms about their grades and certainly didn't care about +2 points from perfect attendance.
I agree with most, this isn't a political thing, it's a cultural thing. American workers work. That's what we do. That's why we are great. It also helps that we are blessed with a land full of natural resources, a diverse and welcoming climate, natural isolation and the only country whose economy survived the last great war intact...but mainly its because we work unless we are on our death bed.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
As someone who was sick way too much as a kid (and nearly died at age 7 from pneumonia, seriously, my mother was told not to leave the hospital as the doctor treating me told her that he did not expect me to live through the night), I can tell you that perfect attendance awards were for the poor kids of smug moms who wanted to brag about their kids "never missing school", they were often the kind who themselves bragged about "never being sick a day in their life". My reaction is now and kinda always has been, you wankers have been trying to kill me most of my life. You almost succeeded. You have been sick in your life, you chose to ignore it, and you put your own needs/accomplishments/bragging rights ahead of the needs of others, you must be stopped.
Luckily - my schools did not give out perfect attendance awards - but my Sunday School did.