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This is what worries me about the virus spreading here. It's perfectly normal for Americans to show up for work sick, because it's so expensive to go to the doctor (if we even have insurance or not). A lot of us won't even get checked or take time off when we get the virus, because we won't know we have it. Our awful healthcare situation could bite us hard.
Service industry workers are fucked. They're fucked every flu season and often living paycheck to paycheck.
American bootstrap philosophy in the service industry is this.
"Oh you need to take a day off because you feel like death? Well you better go get a doctor's note to prove it. Oh you don't have health insurance? Didn't a day off just get way more expensive than just working through pain?"