David J. Danto
Business travel
thoughts in my own, personal opinion
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When You’re Sick – August 2023
Suddenly, in the middle of my workday
yesterday, I felt sleepy and had chills. I left my home office and went upstairs to my bedroom and the trusty
thermometer showed I had a 101.8 (degrees
Fahrenheit) fever. That certainly put the kybosh on my plans for
the day, and it may have some rolling impacts.
The next thing I did was test myself for COVID. The test was negative (as it also was negative
the next morning) so it’s looking like that’s not the issue. I’ll have to ride it out and see if anything
gets worse.
I had planned to go to a sporting event with my family
in a couple of days. Will I be well
enough to go? I’m not sure. My wife has an international trip in early September
and I have a domestic one at the same time.
Should I be isolating at home?
Masking? I really don’t
know.
The two things one never wants to do are 1) fly sick
and 2) be away from home sick. Flying
with a head cold is torture on one’s ears.
It’s also unfair to the other people on the plane. I still wear a mask on a plane to protect myself
and others, but it’s hardly the norm anymore, and COVID infection rates from
the latest variant are rising. (Thanks
VERY much all you science deniers.)
When my wife caught COVID in Europe a few months ago
(as most people do nowadays) she double masked for the flight home so she could
be treated by her own doctors. We were
very lucky her symptoms were minimal so she wasn’t coughing and sneezing on the
plane. But still, flying sick sucks. When she gave it to me when we were back home
I jumped on the prescription for Paxlovid, and it worked wonders.
I guess the third thing no one wants to do is have
their travel plans interrupted by an illness.
With the load factors on airlines prevalent today one almost never can rebook
at a convenient time. That’s a bad
factor in this discussion. People choose
to fly sick sometimes because it’s so hard to rebook.
Then of course there are the long, life changing illnesses. I had to miss a couple of events last year
for some surgery and recovery, and of course that’s nothing compared to the
people who are fighting long-term illnesses – who are struggling to make it
back to ‘normal.’
Also, p
I’m not sure what you’re going to do with that
information, but I’m going back to bed. Hopefully
my issue passes quickly.
This article was written by David Danto and contains solely his own, personal
opinions.
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