todays rant

Why is it that when people are sick with the flu they still insist on going out in public? All they are doing is spreading it around to everyone else. One of the people I work with has been in all week and she does not just have the sniffles she has a full blown flu. She is coughing and barking like a seal. For those of us who work in the same area as her what chance do we have of not getting it? Each time she coughs it is so bad that I expect to see blood flying though the room. We have been telling her to go home but she refuses saying she does not want to use up any of her time. I can understand her not wanting to use up her time but she doesn’t understand why we want her to go home. I don’t want to get the flu and I don’t want to bring it home to my wife and kids either. She is not the only one I know who does things like this. One of my wife’s friends does exactly the same thing she will come and visit when she or her kids have a full blown flu(she knows that we don’t want her to when they are sick) they also will go to the supermarket and mall’s and spread the flu around to everyone there to and people wonder why we have flu epidemics. I understand that life for these people must go on but if you are sick to the point that you should not be out of bed why do you need to go to wal-mart for no other reason then to just see what’s on sale today? Is it that important that you need to pass the flu bug on to save $2 on a pare of jeans?