I have never any workplace to protect against any disease other than covid. Covid is here to stay and we will have yearly out breaks just like we have flu season. It isn't any more deadly than any other disease you might commonly encounter in your life.
This isn't a cold. It's not even a flu. Flu you get once every 7-10 years. Covid is more severe and the average person gets it 1-2 times a year. It's a vascular disease that causes multi-system organ damage.
We are very privileged to live in the 1980s-2019 when most serious infectious diseases with workplace implications in America had been conquered. That's why no one took it seriously. You wouldn't be talking this way about malaria, dengue, etc. The seriousness of the disease matters.
By the time you know for sure that you have covid, you have already been spreading it for several days. Most people would still go to work if they had a bit of a sore throat, runny nose or just felt slightly 'off'. Equally staying at home because you felt like you might possibly have a slight case of flu was very frowned upon and at most places would not make you popular with your boss.
Just being able to work from home for a couple of days as soon as you feel like you might be coming down with something is a clear win for overall public health.
You are already contagious for multiple days before you know you have the flu with exact same symptoms as you listed. Again covid is just like a flu now. What is your point?
Yes. Good. Now, the original comment was about offices are death traps for covid. If people are now coming to work less sick, wouldn't that include covid? And thus make the concern mute.
I have never any workplace to protect against any disease other than covid. Covid is here to stay and we will have yearly out breaks just like we have flu season. It isn't any more deadly than any other disease you might commonly encounter in your life.