alan_m wrote
Jethro_uk wrote

The most persuasive argument is that the chance for people to spread flu
by dragging their sickbed into their workplace has gone. Proof that a
slightly more generous approach to sick pay could have a dramatic
beneficial effect on public health generally. Not that any amount of
proof can challenge the dogma that you must work till you die.

I worked for a company that offered 6 months full pay for sickness and
that didn't stop the spread colds and flu around the office/factory -

What matters is whether they discouraged people from calling
in sick if they had a cold or flu and plenty did just that.

possibly because it is already passed on before full symptoms appear.

Thats what I was told by the GP when I tried to get a medical
certificate after I had chosen to stay home and call in sick. Its
not really much of an argument tho because even tho you may
well have infected people before you were aware that you were
infected, it still makes sense to not infect any more once its clear
that you are infected.

And covid is very unusual in that you can infect others before
you have any symptoms and some never have any symptoms.
That's one area where its very different to SARS and why is
much more of a medical problem than SARS was.