Yes, I know it was harsh and it would probably be different if my son had say a peanut allergy, but he doesn’t and it’s not my concern to those who do, it’s not my problem for another parent to keep their child safe.Wow, that’s harsh. Even though we’re arguing the same side, I’m not entirely sure I want to be seen on this side anymore. We should care, simply because we care about our fellow man.
You absolutely could cause someone to die if you passed a virus to the wrong person. The issue is your culpability - did you know you were under the weather? Could you have stayed home?
Fair enough, that makes sense.
Wow! Hope you’re not someone with whom I ever have to interact!
You made your point! We get it, honest we do!You absolutely could cause someone to die if you passed a virus to the wrong person. The issue is your culpability - did you know you were under the weather? Could you have stayed home?
If your hygiene is so excellent, you’re probably never ill, right?
No one has argued that allergies are contagious.
I guess I don’t understand why it’s difficult for people to stay home when they are sick unless an outing is absolutely unavoidable. I wonder how much this group of “I’ll go where I please, and you have to deal with it” types intersects with those who have never had a vulnerable newborn or elderly parent under their care, or struggled with their own immunity.
Just to avoid mere speculation and my own faulty memory, I looked it up.
Yesterday, I was working at my parish booth at an international food festival. I shudder to think how many people I exposed before my symptoms appeared in the late afternoon.
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You misunderstand. My hygiene is extremely good when I know I am sick. Thus, once I know I have symptoms, I am less likely to spread the virus’ or bacteria that I carry every day with me.
Ultimately, the immune compromised person must avoid society in order to be completely protected, or at least be extremely cautious (hand sanitizer, leave physical space between themselves and others, etc.) No, we should not knowingly expose others to illness, but that doesn’t necessarily mean staying out of the public while we have that illness.
The afternoon of All Saints day, I was fighting a cold and knew I wasn’t feeling well when I was fighting to stay awake with my boss at work while working on a project. I got the project done and went to the OHO to have my temp. checked and it was a fever, all be it a low grade at 99.7. I hated to leave work because layoffs have left my dept. severely understaffed, but I did. This was around 2ish or so, even though it was late in the work day, I left because I knew I had a fever.
If you do not buy into ‘it takes a village’, does that just for when you are ill and not knowing if someone else gets it then it is their business and not yours, or is it for everything: your food, your energy, and everything else you use, you provide for yourself? Because if you do not provide for all that you use, then, IMHO, you have already have bought into ‘it takes a village’.
The bishops do not advise the faithful to miss Mass during cold and flu season. If someone is truly sick then it is left to their personal judgement whether to attend Mass or not. It is not the place of an anonymous poster to tell Catholics to stay away.
Unless it were an emergency, then yes - of course. I’d suggest they wait a few days so as not to infect fellow parishioners or the priest, who really can’t afford to be sick. He can’t visit the infirm or the hospitalized if he’s ill.
So do you not go to the store, to work, school or the doctor’s office because you don’t want to be where a sick person had previously been? For goodness sakes, it would be nice if people worked as hard to go to Mass as they do to avoid it. The sacraments are the ordinary means of grace for us; how is it that so many here are trying to avoid them?Unless it were an emergency, then yes - of course. I’d suggest they wait a few days so as not to infect fellow parishioners or the priest, who really can’t afford to be sick. He can’t visit the infirm or the hospitalized if he’s ill.
I don’t want to walk into a confessional where a sick person had previously been.
No one has said otherwise healthy people should skip Mass during cold and flu season - but rather, those that know they are sick just to stay home, rest and get well for next Sunday.
So, you went to work five days a week for 8 hours a day with pneumonia but you couldn’t manage less than an hour at Mass on the Saturday vigil or Sunday morning?
I disagree. USCCB published a statement.While they didn’t write it, they posted it on their website.
Of course I go out. I just have to hope the people that went before me and with me displayed common courtesy, charity and good sense. I want to think that most people avoid going out unnecessarily while they are unwell.
That is from the Center for Disease Control and is in regards to spreading the flu to others. It is not a statement from the bishops that says if you are sick, then don’t go to Mass or confession anymore than it says don’t go to school, work or wherever.