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reymega life

(675 posts)
Tue Nov 22, 2022, 02:01 PM Nov 2022

the thing about covid and illnesses

Is this starts the marginalization of illnesses where we start marginalizing people, our loved ones, brothers, sisters, mothers, aunts, fathers. et all we start dehumanizing and fear them and not like them or thinking getting sick is un natural and we start fearing sick people all of a sudden like we did with Ryan white in the late 1980s and mistreat people who are sick like if your covid positive people would think your a danger and it becomes an us vs them mentality.

since when was getting sick with colds/coronaviruses/influenza socially unacceptable?

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the thing about covid and illnesses (Original Post) reymega life Nov 2022 OP
In a way, always.... mostly that people need to isolate when sick TigressDem Nov 2022 #1
Being Covid positive IS a danger ⚠️ live love laugh Nov 2022 #2
Post removed Post removed Nov 2022 #3
If someone has a contagious disease I would be cautious live love laugh Nov 2022 #4
Well, it's only very recently that it wasn' Warpy Nov 2022 #5
What nonsense. Keeping sick people from wnylib Nov 2022 #6

TigressDem

(5,125 posts)
1. In a way, always.... mostly that people need to isolate when sick
Tue Nov 22, 2022, 02:13 PM
Nov 2022

If you have diarrhea, are vomiting or can't get enough Kleenex to keep up with the snot.... this is not the time to go to a dinner party.

We take care of people when they are sick, but we wash our hands and do what we can to keep the spread of infectious materials down.

Common sense response to AIDS is to avoid risky behaviors and condom use went up.


What they did to Ryan White was sick.


Blaming someone for being ill is different than not wanting to catch whatever bug is floating out there wanting to make the next person miserable.


COVID has killed and we can love and care about people but follow good medical practices and not spread it around.

live love laugh

(14,357 posts)
2. Being Covid positive IS a danger ⚠️
Tue Nov 22, 2022, 02:15 PM
Nov 2022

If people around or in contact don’t take precautions it becomes a threat for society as a whole as mutations happen.

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live love laugh

(14,357 posts)
4. If someone has a contagious disease I would be cautious
Tue Nov 22, 2022, 02:37 PM
Nov 2022

and probably not be in their presence unless it was really necessary.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
5. Well, it's only very recently that it wasn'
Tue Nov 22, 2022, 03:37 PM
Nov 2022

I'm old, and I remember having certain reportable illnesses would get you a quarantine notice on the front porch with an expiration date on it and until that date, people were pretty much stuck indoors. Friends, family, and neighbors would put groceries on the front porch, ring the bell, and go. Contact was forbidden until the notice expired. This is what people did before there were many of the vaccines we have now. It's only since the 60s that enforced quarantine hasn't been necessary, although voluntary quarantine has been imposed for people who test positive for TB.

Keeping sick people at home isn't making them social pariahs, it's limiting the spread of infectious disease while allowing them time to rest and recover. It should be common sense, but employers have gotten very stingy with sick time, many not offering it at all. Clearly this is insane.

(And how many times has your food been brought to you by sniffling wait staff while all you can think is "god, I hope it's coke?" )

wnylib

(24,299 posts)
6. What nonsense. Keeping sick people from
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 12:38 AM
Nov 2022

spreading disease is not creating an "us vs. them" social setting. It is what caring people do in order to protect loved ones and society in general. It's a life saving necessity when faced with dangerous, life threatening diseases. It's thoughtfulness toward others that most considerate people do willingly.

Vaccinations make isolation less necessary.

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