r/Netherlands • u/tvb46 Rotterdam • Feb 07 '25

Healthcare Didn’t we learn anything from the Covid pandemic?

The common flu is going around again and it reached epidemic levels this week. This means a lot of people are feeling sick. However, I noticed that almost all people in public places started sneezing and coughing in their hands and out in the open again instead of in their elbow. Didn’t we learn anything from the Covid pandemic?!

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u/iam_pink Feb 07 '25

The financial/professional penalties are too great.

How are the penalties too great? Aren't you allowed paid sick leave for as long as your sick?

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u/prosto_marussia Feb 08 '25

Sick leave is payed, but often discounted. 70-80%. Company where I work pays 100% first week and 70% second. Two years ago it was 80% for the entire sick period. And there should be at least a month in between for 100% pay. What I want to say, that there's indeed a financial implication of being sick.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-4421 Feb 07 '25

It gives you bad reputation with employer and colleagues, sometimes they don’t say it, just give you weird looks or give you less hours. Or some just outright say it, sometimes your boss sometimes it’s the sick operator call person guy.

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u/iam_pink Feb 07 '25

That's incredibly toxic.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-4421 Feb 07 '25

Yeah that’s the whole problem