I’m still working from home, but many people have been forced back to their offices for various reasons.
That means people are back into enclosed spaces with others for long hours, which makes things harder to distance.
That must make for tense times for these workers – made all the more tense when your co-workers aren’t bothering to follow protocols.
“Mary in Burnaby” (not her real name because she fears repercussions) wrote to me about her frustrations with her co-workers not following office COVID rules and her bosses not enforcing them, other than a shrug of the shoulders.
What Mary offered up was a list of lame excuses that she referred to as “COVID-tude.”
I am writing as I would like to raise some serious concerns about the attitude towards the pandemic that some workers have. I want to share with you some of the lines that I have heard at work since the pandemic started earlier this year.”
1. My pastor knows that I can't wear a mask! (This co-worker sneezed three times into her hand and came over to touch me and my paperwork.
2. It's just a flu. (Referring to COVID-19)
3. So what if you get COVID-19? If you get it, you get it.
4. If none of us have gotten COVID-19 by now, we are probably all immune to it.
5. It's not the virus! (After a coughing spell that sounded very congested - almost like a pneumonia cough). Management said this person coughed and then choked on water while drinking water.
6. You are overreacting.
7. If you are scared of the virus, you will catch the virus.
“Can you believe this is environment? Are some individuals uneducated, or ignorant? Social distancing alone without wearing a mask is not enough. Limiting the number of people to six in a gathering is not necessarily going to help reduce the virus from spreading. There are still lots that are unknown about the virus.
“It's unbelievable how some big and stupid, and small and stupid jackasses think that they are infallible. They must be all related to Trump.”
Like I said, I’m lucky to still be able to work from home, but I’d like to think my co-workers would be more sensitive than this.
People, be better so we’ll all be safer.
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