We talk a lot about “If you’re sick, stay home from work,” but honestly? We have way more control over:
“If you’re sick, stay away from that social function.”
Like. Please.
If you’re sick? ➡️ Stay home.
If you’re almost sick, and attending this social function is going to drain your last 2 HP and push you into full plague mode? ➡️ Stay home and rest. Your body will thank you. Everyone else will too.
If your kids are sick? ➡️ DO 👏 NOT 👏 BRING 👏 THEM 👏 TO 👏 THE 👏 FUNCTION. Stay home. Put on a movie. Hand them a popsicle. It’s fine.
We do NOT need to keep perpetuating this weird social performance Olympics where “showing up” matters more than “not infecting 20 people.”
We do NOT need your kid’s mild cold to become Grandma’s pneumonia.
We do NOT need your kid’s cough to become a library-wide outbreak just because you didn’t want to miss a craft they could recreate at home with 30 seconds of Googling.
The number of parents dragging visibly, audibly sick kids into public spaces is truly unbelievable.
“Don’t worry Harper! Librarians aren’t real people!” —apparently a philosophy many have adopted.
Meanwhile: Whenever a teen mentor calls out sick from Homework Center, I THANK THEM for taking care of themselves and for not turning the place into a biohazard zone.
Normalize resting. Normalize calling out. Normalize not spreading your plague because you wanted to do glue crafts.
