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Quarantining after you get sick is not "stop living life", it's a week or two of staying inside while you're still transmissible. It's not too much to ask.
It's scary how many people have the attitude that the person above does. It's so easy to just avoid being around people when not feeling well. In fact, it's always been the general expectation. It's been an eye opener seeing how many people think they're being oppressed because we ask them to consider other people around them.
I feel the same about people who take some sort of sick pride in coming to work when they're sick. Stay the fuck home, people! No one wants your disease.
You're trying to put words in my mouth that I didn't say. I do think it's a good idea to stay at home while ill, personally I even wore a mask the first day after having the flu when going to the store. But right now basically everyone I know is having something, whether it's the flu, COVID, or the common cold. You can stay inside while ill, but you can't just stay home the moment you have some minor cold symptoms. Life goes on, at some point you'll need to work and get groceries etc. We should take precautions, but we shouldn't panic for every minor cough.
Once more, I don't know the full context of the people in the image, so it's very hard to say anything.
You wore a mask for one day when you had the FLU? Jesus fucking Christ.