It's weird to me that people in America still downplay illness.
Preface: - it's the holidays and all of my family and my partner's family know how much I love this holiday because it's my favorite kind of comfort food. - I am an American - I am a healthcare worker that started my career in 2018. - I have been sick with something that I have confirmed isnt covid. - I have been sick for over a week and when I get sick like this I gotta let it ride its course and the course is usually unpleasant to listen to/be around. - I have no idea what I have, the last time I felt this bad I was 14 and it turned out to be swine flu
I was going to just "hard stop. No" @ flying out at all but my partner and family reallyreally wanted me to come even after I warned everyone ahead of time I am sick. I confirmed with everyone if it is okay if I am around them. Even then, I refuse to take off a mask around them and distance while eating. I have only allowed mask off in a separate, closed off room that I advised be torched (sanitized) after I leave.
Even then, it takes me hacking and dying in a room over for my partners parents to be like "...... do you maybe wanna gtfo?"
My question is why does American culture need such a song and dance before theyre like "oh shit maybe this needs to be taken seriously"
Like, my partner's grandpa literally got a chemo dose the other day for his pancreatic cancer???? Do people not know how easily a random cough could take someone down who is old and immunocompromised?
I should have stayed home and not been pressured
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