January is the month to sign up for stuff you're probably not going to keep doing later. Like cooking class or hot yoga. It's also the month for setting goals, especially at work, where goals often come with lunch and a side of office politics. Suffice to say January is not the month to be sick. Opinion Columnist LZ Granderson And yet millions of us are. A wave of infections has 38 states dealing with 'high or very high' levels of respiratory illness because of COVID-19, RSV and the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms range from sore throats and coughs that won't go away to fevers that refuse to break.
Since the pandemic began and so many people have worked remotely, staying home from work means much less. It's harder for folks who can work remotely to justify using a sick day, because technology makes it so easy to limp along through our tasks when we should be re.
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