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My wife's multiply vaxxed co-workers keep coming to work sick because they have no PTO left for sick time or quarantine. We're still getting over the last round of crap they carried into the office. Yet another exposure this week and my wife has a sore throat. Earliest test she can get is 10:40 AM tomorrow. All booked up for today. She's coming home early. We won't be going out to dinner tonight. I'm over the sore throat and sniffles from the last pass, but still have recurring periods of malaise and post nasal drip.

A small aside. My wife is part of a 6 dispatcher group providing police/fire/EMS dispatch. 3 are out sick/quarantining. My wife will be the 4th out if she tests positive and/or continues to have a sore throat. I work from my home office, so zero impact on my ability to keep working.

The fire department that I retired from currently has over twice as many people out sick as the previous record. The governor ordered everyone on fire departments not vaxxed to be fired but very few of them are “sick”, so they are being ordered to work mandatory overtime to cover for their “sick” vaxxed coworkers until the crisis has passed. Then they will be fired. The funny thing is that most of those off “sick” wouldn’t even bother during normal times because it is for the most part nothing more than a typical seasonal cold.