I lived in central/eastern ma and have zero idea what the politics of my neighbors are. I'm not sure why that would matter anyway.

Will you only be ok if your entire street has "hate has no home here" signs in front of their fences with their security cameras pointed at the front yards lol

If you ask your boss about benefits, and your job is to coordinate benefits, your boss is going to wonder why they hired you.

If you have to come to a subreddit to ask about employee benefits, as the HR coordinator, you should resign immediately from your position.

It's one hour per 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours. What is your question?

Sounds like the system is working quite well then if despite those challenges and risks, so many businesses exist

You should start a business!!

The polite thing is to not spread an illness, meaning staying out of school while in the contagiousness period. Expecting parents to give their kids cough suppressants, which are generally a horrible idea for little kids, just to be "polite" is very weird. Kids can have boogers for month on end, do you want parents to load them up with Sudafed daily just to be polite?

When you have improving symptoms and a resolution in fever >24hrs with no medication, that is our best guess for when you are no longer contagious. Again, this is the guideline. If people are upset with that, I'm not sure what to tell you, it's the same guidelines from school nurses to pediatricians.

Improving meaning ongoing, progress, but not resolved. A continuation of symptoms, but perhaps less severe. You can have an improvement of symptoms, but still have nasal discharge, cough, etc.

They're two different things in this context.

What do you propose the guidelines should be?

For sure! Improving, not improved.

Define better. Are you saying better in terms of contagious, or 100% asymptomatic?

For the most part, they aren't spreading it when they have been fever free for 24hrs without medication, which is why it's the guideline. If you wait until kids aren't congested they'll be out of school until the spring

Those are the guidelines, how long would you like for them to be out?

It's east? Lol

Next time you commit a hit and run, don't do the run part...

What a really thoughtful nuanced take