#335: Legally spreading sickness

Here’s a fun question for you. What is the quickest way to legally spread swine flu in the USA? You don’t know? Here’s a clue. It has to do with people you interact with every day.

The answer? Make it difficult, if not impossible, for people who already have swine flu to stay home.

Do you realize that people who interact with the public, people in the services sector, are among those millions of Americans who don’t get paid if they don’t go to work?

Hey, it’s all legal. It’s part of capitalism and a free society. No work no pay.

The problem, of course, is this terrible law, the law of unintended consequences. Force sick people to work to maintain the holy grail of productivity and we end up with a sick society in more ways than one.

Nothing shows clearer how sick our culture is when sick people come to work.


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