10-29-2009, 02:41 PM
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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If someone that you live with has H1N1 should you go to work?
This is a situation that all of us, or one of our co-workers, may come across....
If someone you live with definitely has H1N1 you have obviously been exposed to it too. You may not feel sick... but you may have the virus and it could be only a matter of time.
Should you go to work and risk infecting others?
Should you be allowed to go to work?
My personal opinion is that you should do everyone that you work with a favour and stay home until you can get a doctor's note saying you are not contagious (even if at the time you are not showing any symptoms).
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10-29-2009, 02:47 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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The official rule is that it's ok to go to work, just stay away from the infected person, clean all surfaces, wash hands etc. I think if people who lived with people with h1n1 stayed home, the entire country would be home sick.
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10-29-2009, 02:48 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DOK
The official rule is that it's ok to go to work, just stay away from the infected person, clean all surfaces, wash hands etc. I think if people who lived with people with h1n1 stayed home, the entire country would be home sick.
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So treat them the same way you would treat a canucks, oilers, roughriders fan.
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10-29-2009, 02:48 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Really? Stay home because you live with someone who is sick? What about people who don't get paid days off??
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10-29-2009, 02:49 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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You should probably be executed. This is the most efficient way to stop the spread of the virus. Sorry.
Perhaps ask your manager, i'm sure various companies have varying opinions and procedures.
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10-29-2009, 02:52 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Well, once the the radio and television stations are notified so that they can let everyone know that the apocolypse is nigh, and after it's posted on CP so that everyone here can freak out, I would choose to stay home with the person to monitor him or her.
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10-29-2009, 03:03 PM
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Well, once the the radio and television stations are notified so that they can let everyone know that the apocolypse is nigh, and after it's posted on CP so that everyone here can freak out, I would choose to stay home with the person to monitor him or her.
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I heard on the radio that at least one native reserve has a plan to deal with the flu.
They have ordered red and white flags for every household. If the household is flu free you fly a white flag outside your house. If someone inside has the flu, you fly a red flag outside.
That way everyone on the reserve knows who the unclean are. 
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10-29-2009, 03:06 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Toronto
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Nystrom is still coming to work
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10-29-2009, 03:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rerun
I heard on the radio that at least one native reserve has a plan to deal with the flu.
They have ordered red and white flags for every household. If the household is flu free you fly a white flag outside your house. If someone inside has the flu, you fly a red flag outside.
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Man, I'd fly a red flag just for the hell of it and get a one week break from everyone and everything lol. Rent myself like 100 movies and just chill right out.
RE: the OP's question. Who knows? I've always thought it would be pretty cool if humanity just got together one year and decided every single person on earth had to hole up in their house for a two-week holiday of staying indoors to try to rid ourselves of the common cold. Then reality gets in the way and you start thinking of all the essential services that have to keep running, etc. etc. Still, if it were somehow possible wouldn't the cold virus just die?
Yes, I realise how stupid/stonerish that sounds. 
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10-29-2009, 03:33 PM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Well, once the the radio and television stations are notified so that they can let everyone know that the apocolypse is nigh, and after it's posted on CP so that everyone here can freak out [and call everyone who fails to get vaccinated a "moron" and an unthinking lemming], I would choose to stay home with the person to monitor him or her.
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fleshed it out for a little more accuracy.
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10-29-2009, 03:38 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rerun
I heard on the radio that at least one native reserve has a plan to deal with the flu.
They have ordered red and white flags for every household. If the household is flu free you fly a white flag outside your house. If someone inside has the flu, you fly a red flag outside.
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So red = unclean?
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10-29-2009, 03:44 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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It's the flu, not the Black Plague.
But if the boss wants to pay you to stay home, great.
When this first all came out we were just coming back from Mexico, they made my wife stay home for almost a week, and none of us were sick.
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10-29-2009, 03:51 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
It's the flu, not the Black Plague.
But if the boss wants to pay you to stay home, great.
When this first all came out we were just coming back from Mexico, they made my wife stay home for almost a week, and none of us were sick.
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Was it paid leave?
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10-29-2009, 03:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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My friends work at Devon here in OKC .... They to went to Mexico for a week ... They gave them 10 days off after wards WITH PAY and not count against their vacation or sick time to stay home to make sure they werent infected
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10-29-2009, 03:58 PM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
It's the flu, not the Black Plague.
But if the boss wants to pay you to stay home, great.
When this first all came out we were just coming back from Mexico, they made my wife stay home for almost a week, and none of us were sick.
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Yeah the same thing happened to my sister who works with the CPS. And we came back from a cruise in the caribbean, not even close to Mexico. This whole paranoia is really starting to show how effective the media can become with fear mongering. Just got back home and the local community hall in Turner Valley looks like everyone in a 100 mile radius showed up to save themselves from certain death.
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10-29-2009, 04:06 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhettzky
Was it paid leave?
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She still had to work.. she enjoyed it though, she said she got more done lol.
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10-29-2009, 04:10 PM
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Franchise Player
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I say we just shut down society as a whole, no one goes outdoors and we all wear hazmat suits until March.
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10-29-2009, 04:25 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Here
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We have been told to stay home in case someone at home has flu/flu-like symptoms (H1N1 or otherwise). We are to call a health-service and follow their recommendations...One of my colleagues had flu-like symptoms and was told to stay home until after the symptoms had cleared...They're definitely not taking any chances with this...
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10-29-2009, 04:53 PM
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Missed the bus
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NO you should not go to work IMO. Take those germs and keep them away!!
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10-29-2009, 04:59 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC
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carry around hand sanitizer... I got mine on my every minute at work now.
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