Family Story

For my cousin's sweet 16 in March, because she lives in Albany, my entire family had to drive all the way upstate in time for her party. My family who was attending and driving up was my grandma, mom, dad, sisters, and brother, and my cousin. My parents and siblings planned to drive up alone, my grandma would drive with other extended family, and my sister and I would drive with our cousin. But my parents and siblings were all sick the week before the party, so it was a bit obvious they weren't able to drive upstate for her party. So my cousin, sister and, I drove up and had to suffer at her party alone, and then got lost coming home. Needless to say, my cousin does not like upstate New York anymore.

We can feel the pressure, it's getting closer now.

Health officials are taking this years flu season extremely serious. Well, more than usual. Ever since the outbreak of H1N1 last year, everyone is becoming a little more health obsessed and hygienic. Health officials are saying that if you're sick you should "stay home, cover your cough, wash your hands and don't touch your face". However, the majority of the public didn't listen. Most people still go about their day as normal. Officials are trying to wean teachers off such high expectations of their students, so that sickly children will stay home, and not be pressured to come into school, and infect more people. The same is happening with business places. Most of the time, the only thing keeping people from staying home sick is the amount of work that will loom over them when they return.

I have to agree, mostly, with this article. I mean, come on. It's common sense if you're too ill to get up and go about your day normally, you should stay home. Most people I know get up and go to school or work with a common cold. In school, I constantly hear sniffles, sneezes, and coughs. I even have a cold, and I'm going to school regularly. As fun as the idea of staying home all day in bed is, we have to be realistic. School is chop full of tests, notes, quizzes, and work, work, work. Our health is constantly put in jeopardy because of the pressures of our school/business environments. Officials that are attempting to have teachers/bosses wean the workload off the people who are being pressured to work while sick have the right idea. Less pressure on the average Joe will help us as a society overall.