Bae, I find that there are two calm and in depth sources of daily update. Medcram and Dr. John Campbell on Youtube. They are gathering and summarizing many sources of data and giving easy to understand updates. I have found the US sources full of assumptions, sensationalism, and just plain bad info.
Austria! Mexico!Originally Posted by gimmethesimplelife
Today DH mentioned he may flee to Cuba if he catches Coronavirus because the health care system is so good there, you know.
I've been following the daily Medcram updates since you first recommended it. He gets a little technical at times but it's a very good information supplement without any hype.
IL, I'd tell him to try somewhere other than Cuba. My friend watched his pregnant mother get kicked in the stomach by Castro's soldiers during the takeover. He was six.
And what do you know it people are working sick here. Like I said it does some good to have paid sick time, but it really doesn't mean that people will stay home sick unless they are on deaths door. At least it might keep those who feel like they are on deaths door out of the workplace!!!
But as is people want to use all their time off including sick time for the beach or something. It's not mature or adult but hey people are idiots duh. It is EVER THUS in my experience. If there was more than sick time but also a truly generous vacation policy (4-5 weeks might do it) so that people weren't saving their sick days for extra vacation time THEN maybe peoples coming to work sick would improve, maybe ... But decades of working and I've seldom seen more than 2 weeks vacation time, have to go to another country for that.
Trees don't grow on money
Before retiring I had 5 weeks of annual vacation, 6 annual personal days, 4 annual personal holidays and one week of paid time off for plant shutdown in the summer, plus 10 sick days per year. That's 8 weeks of paid time off without counting sick time. Before that I also had 5 weeks annual vacation and personal days bringing the total paid time off to 6 weeks. And before that I was in the military where I received 30 days of paid leave each year. Most everyone I know had similar, right here in the good ol' USA!
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
I have 10 vacation days and 3 sick days a year (3 paid sick days a year are required under California law, no vacation time is required), no other personal time off, paid national holidays of course. I budget a couple of those 10 vacation days in case of sickness which could take more than 3 days afterall. It makes me livid that others come to work sick. But it happens ALL THE TIME.
Trees don't grow on money
IL, as I've stated before - realistically we don't live in the same country. Please respect this. I can accept that you may find some of what I post to be out there. Granted. The kicker us that in my country, what I have posted is mundane and everyday - akin to talking about the weather. Like they say in Spanish - Asi es la vida. Rob
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But they have government health care, that is all that matters.
Yeah, tamping down on information. Disgusting... trump needs to go! He hollowed out the government so there is no one who knows what to do.
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