Feline Warrior

Bush to Unveil Super-Flu Strategy - Yahoo! News

Favorite quote:

America has this tough-it-out strategy when you get sick,” [White House spokesman Trent] Duffy said. “You aren’t helping yourself or the country going to work when you get ill. You are potentially threatening a greater health issue if you send children to school when they are sick.

Does America have “this tough-it-out strategy” because we’ve got a wacky gene leftover from the days of the westward-bound pioneers? Or do we know that we’re merely numbers, replaceable worker bees who believe we will suffer consequences worse than illness if we miss work a few days? Has downsizing -due to jobs going overseas- given fewer people more work to do, creating a sense of urgency for every worker bee? Hmm?