[HarryHirsch]

Pre-pandemic I had a habit of chucking visibly sick people out of the classroom. No one needs whatever bug they are spreading, not me, not their classmates. This attitude of presentee-ism needed to die even then. We hope it's dead now.

[Arete314159]

I once had a teacher in school who got mad at me for daring to take a sick day. As a moral tale, he explained that he taught class even when he had a slight cough, which turned into pneumonia. This was to show how dedicated he was. Whereas I, a high schooler, was thinking, "Doesn't that mean you SHOULD have taken a sick day, so you wouldn't have progressed to pneumonia?"

If we get anything positive out of Covid, I hope it's as you say, the cult of soldiering on while infecting others has stopped.

[jokethrowaway]

Presentee-ism needs to die full stop.

There is no reason to force another human being to attend your lesson if they can pass your exam / go to work if they can deliver the same results somewhere else.

(I'm not advocating for forcing employers and school to give people flexibility through legislation, I'd just want to see a voluntary cultural shift)