Callum Borchers
speaker
1,301 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2022
last heard Jan 2025
Callum Borchers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can be shamed by your manager for calling in sick and leaving others in the lurch to pick up the slack for you.
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But you also get the stink eye from workers if you show up contagious because nobody wants to be around the person who's, you know, hacking up a lung at their desk.
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For a lot of workers, it feels like a no-win situation.
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No, it's not your imagination.
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Respiratory illnesses have been lingering above the national baseline since November.
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So we're going on three months here.
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That's according to the CDC.
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And it's largely a numbers game.
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Just think about all the ways that you can get sick now.
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You've got the flu, COVID-19 and all of its many variants, RSV, the common cold.
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On those COVID variants, I spoke with Dr. Nahid Badilia at the Boston University Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and
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And she says, we're sort of going to expect this to be the new norm.
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Every time the virus mutates, it doesn't necessarily get more severe, but it's just another way that you can get sick.
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It's another disease for us to battle every single cold and flu season.
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Yeah, you'd think we'd learned our lesson, right?
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But that doesn't seem to be the case.
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It's both internal and external.
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So for some people, that impulse to push through and tough it out is really hard to break.
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It's hard to unlearn that old habit.
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But there's also some external pressure from managers, and some of it comes from setting an example.
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