Stay Home if Ill

Island County Public Health
PUBLIC HEALTH - Always working for safer and healthier communities

Please don't spread disease during cold and flu season

Think About Your Co-workers

Despite getting the flu shot, regularly spraying your desk with disinfectant and using hand sanitizer every hour, you're sick. Sometimes it's just unavoidable. You can either use your sick leave ‘which you were saving for a weekend getaway in the summer’ and fall behind on your work or you can stick it out and go to the office. Tough choice, right? Wrong!

Stay at home.

Even if you're worried that staying at home means burdening co-workers with your duties, forget about it. No good will come from you dragging yourself to the office and attempting to work like nothing's wrong.

Remember what it's like to hear the guy in the next cubicle sneeze, wheeze and sniffle every three minutes? Not only is it annoying, it's a constant reminder that germs are flying all over the office. You don't want to be that guy. As bad as you feel now, imagine how you'll feel when everybody else is sick and angry at you for infecting them.

No one is indispensable. So please do yourself and everyone around you a favor – if you are ill, stay home and get well.
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R S Case, MD
Health Officer, Island County