Huh, I assumed this was during the COVID-19 epidemic, but yeah, it'd be nice if the US became much more aware of common infectious diseases. The Capitalism drives us to come in to work drugged up, even when we're highly infectious (often infecting the department).

I'm pretty isolated, myself, and got two colds (differing symptoms!) this year.

Since one of the family at this year's Christmas gathering is immunocompromised, I stayed home, since I wasn't yet clearly on the mend.

So yeah, it'd be nice if we could depoliticize anti-pathogen hygiene. I've learned in my old age not to expect great things from human society.