Just had to kick a guy out of the clinic for coughing like crazy and refusing to wear a scrub mask.

[hunter]

8. We've got a cold going around here that has a hellish cough that lasts weeks.

It really ought to be a felony to go to work or school while sick and contagious. The people who praise perfect attendance should be sent off to live on their own little desert island somewhere.

A couple of years ago I was sitting in a doctor's office waiting room when a mom dragged in a fussy kid with an obvious case of chicken pox. It was astonishing how fast the staff hustled them back to the van they came in... which was full of other children.

I remember how my kids got chicken pox just a few months before the vaccine was released in the U.S.A.. Damn, that was no fun.