Depends on where you live. In my country, you don't need a doctor's note and it's illegal for an employer to straight up ask what you've got. It's also very uncommon to go to the doctor for the flu here, you generally only go for injuries or, well, things you haven't seen before, honestly. I don't even know what a doctor would do for a cold or flu except tell you to rest. We don't really do cold medicine either.
See, in America, we're so great that when we get sick, we just keep going to work until we're fully incapacitated. Anything less would dishonor our families and be grounds for termination. We just keep pushing and pushing and pushing until we have nothing left, and then we die, secure in the knowledge that we bled for the enrichment of the greatest country on earth. It didn't matter that we got fat and lost our hair and fell asleep weeping every night for 10 years before becoming fully numb to life, embracing pharmaceuticals as a way to flatten the whole human experience into a flipbook animation devoid of spirit or beauty, just day after day of toil and cynical determination to keep breathing the air we've helped poison.
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u/Niborus_Rex 18h ago
Depends on where you live. In my country, you don't need a doctor's note and it's illegal for an employer to straight up ask what you've got. It's also very uncommon to go to the doctor for the flu here, you generally only go for injuries or, well, things you haven't seen before, honestly. I don't even know what a doctor would do for a cold or flu except tell you to rest. We don't really do cold medicine either.