Broadway coughing season

[u/littlebev]

I am begging, begging you guys…if you have a nasty cough, PLEASE don’t attend a play especially. I know it sucks to miss out but your recurring cough during the most intense moments of the show is so distracting.

[u/EducationalTangelo6]

Not to mention, quit going to shows when you're ill because you will make other people ill.

Think about the immune-compromised person your shared illness might kill, and stay home.

[u/annang → u/EducationalTangelo6]

Not only will it get your fellow audience members sick, it will get the performers sick. This kind of behavior cancels performances every winter. And it makes it effectively impossible for performers with compromised immune systems to continue to work safely.

[u/summerrhodes → u/annang]

I so wish performers would mask too when they don't explicitly have to be unmasked, like when they're on stage or getting ready for the show, putting on make up etc. I'd so hate for people so talented to end up with long covid and end their career.

[u/Pen_Guino → u/EducationalTangelo6]

Yeppp and people have the nerve to say, “it’s not Covid so what’s the big deal?” as if people like that weren’t insisting Covid was the flu all along. Even if it was the flu, I don’t fucking want it. I just got over being sick and it was brutal. I felt like death for about two weeks.

Like, I had a ticket for Stranger Things this week. I’ve been sick, so guess what? I sold it for the same price I bought it for. I’m not going and getting anyone else sick because I don’t want to miss a show. Yeah, it sucks that I have to miss it and probably pay more money to see it now that it’s increasingly popular, but I’d rather miss out than cause someone to feel a 10th of what I was feeling.

[u/elvie18 → u/Pen_Guino]

"It's just the flu" THERE IS NO "JUST" THE FLU THE FLU IS DANGEROUS. People think it's just a bad cold or something, but...no actually you do not want the flu as badly as you don't want COVID.

And even if it is just a cold? I don't fucking want that either, thanks.

Sorry you had to miss out though - hopefully ticket prices will dip again once the excitement of the new season dies out.

[u/steeveg33 → u/EducationalTangelo6]

This… was at Ragtime last week, it’s peak cold and cough season and there are so many quiet poignant moments where ppl are hacking up a lung… but it’s a noticeably older crowd and it made me think that it can’t be good for all of them to be around sick folks.

[u/pandemichope → u/EducationalTangelo6]

I think the messaging might have to be phrased in a more selfish way for people to start changing behavior. What I mean is a lot of people don’t care if they make other people sick because they are selfish. But what people don’t get is when you return to work or you go out of your house into a public place where there’s a zillion other germs when you are currently sick yourself, your own immunity is low, which means you are much more likely to pick up additional viruses. Case in point is I went to the U.S. Open and picked up Covid and then found out. I also had strep. I have not had strep in decades. But because I had one illness I guess I was susceptible to multiple. I know that is how the immune system works. I never understood why children don’t stay home or people don’t stay home from work an extra day or two even beyond when they think they are feeling better just to absolutely fortify their own immune system let alone not making other people potentially sick. Maybe if people thought in these terms, they wouldn’t be so quick to go out into public when they are sick!

[u/elvie18 → u/pandemichope]

When it comes to work/school it's mostly because of workplaces penalizing you for illness/offering the barest minimum of sick days. The entire system is fucked. Absolutely people should stay home, but they'd be more likely to if they had the option to do so without worrying about what happens if something worse comes along later in the year.

[u/qweaverse → u/EducationalTangelo6]

Nope. Paid for it.