What's so stupid about this is sick kids do worse at school. Sending your kid to school sick gets other kids sick, which makes them do worse. Then they bring it home, and now parents are under performing at work as well. Keeping your kid home when they are sick objectively improves outcomes for everyone.

[–] deadbeef79000 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's not the point.

The (government's) point is that one employee taking a sick day is stealing a day from their employer. Just like public holidays and annual leave. /S

Preventing the spread of sickness by isolating when one is sick (you'd think that we all still remember 2020) reduces the total number of sick days that all employers pay for.

It's basically an anti-employee dog whistle at this point.

[–] Rangelus 4 points 7 months ago

Completely agreed.