Emphasis on "would be".

Currently it's not. So, currently no problem. If it changes, then it could be, yes. Which is true for any virus. If they change, they could potentially harm lots of people. That's life, and that's why we have the CDC and WHO etc. who keep an eye on things and try to react once that's needed. (Which lots of conspiracy theorists don't like, but that's life too.)

(Also, please avoid inhaling somebody else's feces.)

So she never once was at home at 10 am? No weekday, no weekend? Never ever? Never missed gym, never missed church, never had a day off, was never sick?

I call BS. Sorry to say, she may not have been entirely honest with you.

There are plenty of people who are super regular, and super disciplined in their routines. What would be really impressive to me is if she never once got food poisoning or flu and broke the streak in that way.

> What would be really impressive to me is if she never once got food poisoning

It'll never cease to amaze me how commonly people in the US get food poisoning based on their comments.

Not getting food poisoning or the flu in three years is surprising?

Very. American culture prior to Covid was one in which any time off ever was frowned upon. As a result, people often went to work sick due to social pressure. Additionally, many companies had rather bad food safety practices because people would be sick and tired for fear of having a manager think them lazy for being out sick.

She wouldn’t eat out with me and preferred to meal prep all her meals for the week on Sunday, which definitely probably helped avoid food poisoning.

I can only recall her being sick once, with the flu.

And while she had that flu she still went to the gym and church and her office?!

It could happen but that's why they see the oddball measurement from WC if it's their home--maybe it's a weekend or off schedule event. Everything else could be happening first thing when they get to work and have a cup of coffee, five days a week like clockwork in regularity... I worked for the state of Ohio for a brief period in an office job and everyone always joked about getting paid to poop.

I was with her for the vast majority of that time. You may be right - I’m not going to be that anal about my partner’s bathroom habits - but I never saw anything to suggest otherwise.

You want to get more conversations by banning conversations? That makes no sense.

We are not machines that convert money (or food/coffee) into code. Social contexts matter, there are personalities behind each face. If you understand the context of your co-workers then it's easier to understand online communication (since most non-verbal communication that happens in person is lost over online channels). Meeting in person sometimes just makes online communication more effective.

It makes perfect sense.

Often people will default to DMs for things, which makes it appear like no one is chatting and isolates these casual chats to 1:1 DMs.

If you encourage these kind of conversations to happen in channels (Public or private), other people can jump into the conversation.

I've seen the difference it makes when everything is done in public channels instead of DMs. Everything feels more lively and you interact with your team a lot more. Everything in DMs feels isolating.