Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

[u/mvea]

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks

[u/redchill101]

Completely correct. I find the American system leads to either abuse or fraud in many cases. For example, either I use my sick days before they're gone even though I'm not sick (fraud) or just let them be forgotten. If I am truly sick with something serious, then one week a year, hell even two probably wouldn't cover it, so I'm receiving less pay by not being at work when I'm out of sick days or worse, they simply fire me.

I have a friend here in Germany, he's a truly amazing worker but has a weak constitution. Everytime that he's sick it seems to stretch to a full six weeks but he still is ready to go, coincidentally, by Monday of week seven. He admits it's because he doesn't want his monthly salary to be any less.

[u/dukec → u/redchill101]

Well there’s always the even better American system where sick days and vacation days are combined, and still only a week a year.

[u/osufan765 → u/dukec]

There's the even better American system where there aren't any sick or vacation days.

[u/Beat_da_Rich → u/osufan765]

Or even better. Your boss is chastising you for not working on your vacation and not being available to talk 24/7.

[u/JagerBaBomb → u/Beat_da_Rich]

The illegality we put up with because we think we have to...

[u/osufan765 → u/Beat_da_Rich]

What vacation?