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I used to work at a children's center that dealt with hundreds of kids a day. The first year I worked there I was sick every single month. It was hell. My mom called me once and actually told me I should quit on account of my health. As soon as I got well, a week later I'd be sick with something else. In that one year, I got bronchitis 4x, laryngitis 2x, I caught strep from a co-worker which was the sickest I'd ever been in my life, until I caught the big one, pneumonia, which put me in the hospital and quite literally nearly killed me and took me a full month to fully recover from.

Now I treat people who are sick like they have the plague. I will spray doors and counter tops down with Lysol or bleach if they are near. I will avoid them if I can. If it's my boyfriend, he knows, I'll bring him the chicken soup, I'll rub his back, I'll rub the vix, but I'm doing it with a mask on and we're sleeping in separate spaces until he gets better.

I just no longer see the point of trying to act like someone coughing and hacking all over the place is a-okay, or that I don't mind getting sick on someone else's behalf. No one likes being sick, and so to me, the action I'm taking is infection control to prevent me and others from catching something contagious. As a result in the past 5 years or so, I've only actually ever been sick once, and it was something I caught from an airplane seat (so now I wipe those down too before I sit/fly).

Is this too much?