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Vaccinated and boosted so won’t be dropping dead and cause inconvenience to my colleagues. Just mild cold and an overwhelming anxiety which subsided after breakfast. Now staying the small studio apartment close to my hospital as I don’t want to spread or infect my family in the Italian side. I have two good bottles of scotch, a crate of wine and free food delivered by the local council (thanks to federal govt. covid initiative). Gonna get drunk and play games till I am fit for service again.
DecapodianSaysWoopWoopWoopWoop
Two bottles of scotch and crate of wine? What will you drink after first 5 days?
dilgar2000
I tested positive and am boostered same as my wife. I am so ready for this cough to go away.
Shinikitty
I feel like as a Dr. You would know getting drunk while sick is bad for you. Drink plenty of fluids not scotch.
TikkaMasalaBaby
No way am finishing the scotch; I am gonna power through 14 days of quarantine and after that party quarantine alone starts…
relaximusprime
Grats!... wait a second...
belovedlover
I mean vaxxed or not, two good bottles of scotch can cure anything.
Kuvajainen
Doc, you freaking EARNED that break! I hope the omicron doesn't wreck your plans. Enjoy the loitering around as much as you can!
Mithi
40 days, so literally a quarantine ...
TikkaMasalaBaby
The OG way…
nickt0905
Should it be omicron and not omnicron?
eflatmajor
Sure but they’re ESL so I aint mad
TrojanGiraffe
Omicron isn’t english
iknowwhatwillhitfrontpage
At this point getting a ps5 is rarer than getting covid
wobblecopterrrr
Soo, get if I get covid, get smashed and play smash.. got it doc ;)
Communik8
CDC says covid+ healthcare workers should go to work if their symptoms are mild.. Fuck you CDC
HobbesRogers
After all you've been through, you deserve to get paid to eat, drink, and play video games for 40 days. Enjoy it! and play Spider-Man on PS5
irrelevantsentence
“Gonn get drunk and play video games till I get fit again”. I knew exercising wasn’t the way to get fit.
kickahippie
Doc orders….
PictureArchiver
Take good care of yourself and knock yourself out with the PS5. What games are you going to play?
PhooBar
A plan. The man has a plan.
IndomitableLex
Enjoy the well earned paid time off!! Unfortunate the circumstances needed for that to happen but nonetheless! I’ve been vaccinated and also
IndomitableLex
Have recently gone through having omnicron, it still wasn’t enjoyable experience whatsoever.. good luck and cheers ?
mercbrit
TikkaMasalaBaby
Although I should admit I grossly underestimated the cost of ps5 games :(
FeChefImgur
Yeah, but all that money you're saving on food though ?
TikkaMasalaBaby
Naa that am saving to buy riding gear.. but the fancy ones with airbags haha
FeChefImgur
you mean motorcycle riding gear, that has airbags in it ?
TikkaMasalaBaby
Yup yup…the jacket goes puff when u underestimate your riding skills and yeet over the alps..
AustralopithecusBoisei
Have a well deserved rest !
Dahnzo
You deserve it and more. Enjoy your time off and come back refreshed
ThisGuyHere
Hell yes, you deserv....wait... uh,... you deserve the time off, but hope your symptoms stay mild!
svilentomov
Same here, except I don't work in the medical field. Managed two years dodging maskless idiots and not vaccinated, now I'm kinda angry.
XRay0976
40 days!?!?!? Where the hell do you work at? I'm am xray tech at a hospital in Detroit and would only get 80 hours if needed for covid!
TikkaMasalaBaby
Switzerland well to be exact Lugano..
Bubaluba
Europe :)
Comet260
Not America.
OzRockabella
You freaking earned your leave - sorry you had to get infected to get it, though.
smellsmiketeenspirit
Aren't you afraid to forget how to do ER doc after 40 days ? I am in IT and I fear that.
TikkaMasalaBaby
Na.. those things are now natural now. If the experience doesn’t teach u the military service will definitely…
belovedlover
40 days is not enough to forget, I couldn't even forget my pin-codes and passwords after 30 day leave.
ArghhhMyGroin
Got my PS5 a few weeks ago. I'd recommend Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut and Spiderman - Miles Morales for the proper next gen experience.
deathandtaxes1
Ratchet and clank: a rift apart is good, just not long.
vudak
Demon's souls!
Gettingpaidtobrowseimgur
If you're into WW2 fps - Hell Let Loose. Got it free with PS+ and haven't played anything else since. Slight learning curve, but worth it.
HobbesRogers
just finished Miles Morales, still working through Ghost, both excellent games!
ArghhhMyGroin
Really enjoying GoT, and the platinum trophy seems quite achievable. 50 hours in so far and feel like I'm getting fairly close to the end.
kingkongkeom
I read that as Ghost Of Tsunami first and was slightly disturbed that a game like that was greenlit...
Monochromaticats
The real ghost was a storm with massive waves.
DuelingBrothers
@ArghhhMyGroin But how did you get one without paying the scalper markup?
CrixusMaximus
Sometimes PlayStation direct does invite only restocks. You request an invite. They set a time it will open up. Log into the site before it
CrixusMaximus
Actually starts and you are out in a queue. How I got mine. It’s not currently open for registry or I would link it.
ArghhhMyGroin
By being quick when local stores get some stock in. A supermarket near us had a recent delivery, and I caught them early last month.
Scaramucci
This is my first Playstation console. I'm still catching up with all the PS4 titles I missed like The Last of Us and God of War.
RednapxpandeR
Excellent choices
CrixusMaximus
Playing Spider-Man remastered first. It’s crazy how much faster the system load fast travel. I had to watch him ride the subway on PS4.
ArghhhMyGroin
That's what's impressed me most. You turn the console on and you're playing your game in 20-30 seconds. I have to admit it's the 1/2
ArghhhMyGroin
Most underwhelmed I've been moving up a gen in terms of graphics. There hasn't been a great increase but we're still early in to it's cycle.
CrixusMaximus
I will say I agree for the most part. But I had BF2042 on PS4 and it looks like a ps2 game compared to how it looks on PS5. But it think we
CrixusMaximus
Have hit a point that we won’t see huge leaps in graphics between the end of a generation and start of the new.
EurtykeiHongKong
I’d also add Returnal to that. Arguably the only true next gen experience out there at the moment. Superb
ArghhhMyGroin
It's definitely next on my list after these two
EurtykeiHongKong
Returnal on offer in the spring sale. Get it bought! New (free) content just came out too
ArghhhMyGroin
Legend! Thanks man, I'll have a look after work and get it purchased
PunnyDragon
I'll second this, great roguelite.
MathDebater
just super frustrating as I‘ve played it for 10hrs now and still didn‘t manage to kill the first boss
EurtykeiHongKong
Stick with it! Once it clicks it’s. Great feeling!
BazzyBaz
Why 40 days off?
EvilEkips
The 31 free days you get every year + 7 mandatory due to getting COVID I guess.
TikkaMasalaBaby
Sterile environment of Er law. You cannot work and have to take precautions as we learnt the first wave, a week off is absolutely useless.
ThisNameIsNotAboutYou
So do you have to isolate for 40 days? Or just not go back into work? Which country?
TikkaMasalaBaby
Isolation for 40 days. Switzerland… technically 15 days (CH) but under our hospital admin is 40 days mandatory.
VodkaReindeer
Surely that can't last. They'll run out of workers before your 40 days is done.
TikkaMasalaBaby
We have reserve staff to last half an year. Lessons we learnt during first wave I guess. Also worst case EU and esp. Italy will send theirs.
plusonefororegonians
My hospital just mandated we have to go back to work after 5 days, even if we’re still symptomatic. Glad to see some still do it right!
JackHL01
Where the fuck are you?
ThisNameIsNotAboutYou
Ha, I was just looking at a job in Zurich. I'm UK teacher, just tested positive and have to be back at work within 7 days ??♀️
TikkaMasalaBaby
Not frontline category probably..also the contone is kinda €€€ orientated.. well chf but yeah.. haha
Silas007
Tbf teachers typically don't come into contact with a lot of sick people for whom an additional infection could have dire consequences.
Snowman25
btw: It's "omicron". It isn't every/all(omni)time(cron)
RawSugarPackage
Buy I really want this one to be the plot of the next transformers movie.
Mithi
He kinda has a point with "omni" though ....
TikkaMasalaBaby
Yay for fellow Latin speaker haha
TikkaMasalaBaby
Haha if you look at the infection spike it is indeed omni…
readbackmonkey
Yeah omnicron is a decepticon
BlueDsc
My dad calls it Obamacron, cause he's that special kind of stupid.
WGG25
pretty sus not gonna lie
dudelol
Maybe people SHOULD call it that way. Maybe the virus will magically disappear on its own.
IconicM
At this point it probably will be with us for all time...
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Seeing as OP is an ER Doc, knows Greek/Latin from medical school, Deals with disease & death daily, haters in here are missing the omni joke
Pacuta
Was it a joke or just a convenient mistake?
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Doctor. Medical School. Literally had to study Latin / Greek. #NYOOOOOOOOOM
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Y'all be like, "Nothing goes over my head. I'm too fast; I would catch it."
myCleverUsernameIsEvenMoreClever
Makes me wonder if OP really is an ER doctor. Don’t those kinds of people manage to spell better and at least know how to spell Omicron?
ImJustSoFckingSickOfThisBllsht
Omni = all = dark joke about omicron's infection rate
MakesSenseSometimes
Could just be autocorrect on phone that gived options and he missed a letter when reading it
Comet260
Whenever I see "omni" I think of omnitool. Got Mass Effect on the brain.
spaceystacey
It was bothering me than an ER doc was getting it wrong. Especially because it's a greek letter. I figured they were satirizing the name.
TikkaMasalaBaby
Haha if you look at the infection spike it is indeed omni…
SlutAtNight
My boyfriend is Swiss:) beautiful country!
Elkarlo77
When he is swiss, give him a break, lot of german speaking media had it wrong with Omnikron, instead of Omikron.
Snowman25
Am german, can't confirm. Nobody here ever said "omnikron"
Elkarlo77
"Spiegel 8.01.2022 Omikron nicht Omnikron" Search it. There is an articel about it's mispelling.
Elkarlo77
When Omicron was named there were even some major publications with the Error. Most Online have corrected it.
spaceystacey
Really? I wasn't aware of this, thank you for sharing ☆•☆•☆
555LOGS
No wonder whatever doctors scribble is never legible. Way to mask not knowing how to actually spell shit ;D
leadenjerry
I figured you couldn’t be American when you said 40 days paid leave
whatintarnation9
Yeah here you get 5 days and back to work you go for a healthcare worker.
drawoheitak
Exactly my thought. Plus the crate of wine and food delivered by the council?! That’s fantastic!
gerf
Americans get 0 days paid leave. Unless you opt to use vacation time.
cenfou2tout
Probably Swiss, as there is an Italian part there
APassingPlasticBag
wait your local government isn't forcing you to go back to work immediately but be like rearly really cautious? and you have a PS5...
JustChargeYourDamnPhone
That’s like 4 years sick time measured in US benefits.
elmagoPrincess
Same.
Ikusame
5 days max, a year, if we say its ok, also you're now no longer considered for promotion and this will effect your raise and evaluation.
TerrorOmelette
*cries in American*
NoodlesWthADHD
Yeah, we definitely don't get that here...
Iamthedancingking
Hospital and university just informed us last week that if we test positive but are unsymptomatic, we report to work. Yay.
SometimesIJust
That’s how I got everyone at work sick
GraniteIvy
Weird, I assumed the opposite! (I assumed mentioning the paid leave implied a country without paid sick leave)
politicallydeadinside
Probably combined sick leave / paid leave I would think.
LetsEatGrandpaCommasSaveLives
Same. Most Americans couldn't get 40 hours of paid leave.
souleater2847
Lol 5 days then you asked to go to the doctor every day to get tested for a negative. Some places charging 225 a test.
shinagami091
The government funded covid food was the tip off for me. I thought the 40 days thing was maybe a hospital thing
silentwolf1999
I have that but it took 15 years to earn. One of the only reasons I don't look for another job.
UncleRico23
ER nurse here, got 1 day off. Back to work on day 5 post testing positive. Cool.
stlouiscardinalsfan7
40 days paid leave and the government delivering food did it for me.
MastahPetah
I mean, lots of better paying jobs have paid sick leave in the US.
rudejohn
My sister-in-law is a NICU nurse and her department gives 14 days paid leave for a positive COVID test. 40 days doesn't make any sense to me
supercerealsteph
They’re a doctor. Nurses don’t get this. And if we can’t prove we got it at the hospital, they won’t pay- we use PDO.
IjustsaywhatIthink
Are you a nurse in Italy?
supercerealsteph
Lol, US unfortunately
IjustsaywhatIthink
OK. A friend of mine is a nurse in Italy and has great time off benefits. BTW, Nurses are awesome (most of them).
AdmiralBananaSplitter1
Yeah, he'd have to return to work after 5 days if in the US.
Mayfly10
I think it's down to 0 days for nurses, not sure about doctors though.
AdmiralBananaSplitter1
I wouldn't be surprised especially in areas with a nurse shortage. I work in the pharmacy, but we have the same return policy as nursing. ¹
AdmiralBananaSplitter1
Which is basically, "bend over." I just went to work and got sent home. I told them I'm not feeling well before, but the health nurse ²
AdmiralBananaSplitter1
Cleared me anyway. My managers thought I was okay because "covid is like the flu." I hope they all get it so they can understand.
eltonpups
As an ER doc in America all I could think is where could I go for that. Is definitely unpaid leave and probably lucky if it’d be 7 days.
ihaveanouttie
Best I can do is 14. Or is it 5 now?
smellsmiketeenspirit
This year, I am maxing out my mandatory paid leave with mandatory holiday off days and will take 57 days off. I need it :].
fortheloveofbutter
I’m crying tears of intense sadness and envy- another American healthcare worker
smellsmiketeenspirit
Healthcare workers in the US is... brutal :/.
Brettkeen
Mandatory paid leave? All us mericsns get is manatory overtime and meetings.
iwenttousersubandalligotwasthislousyusername
THIS. I'm American with two job offers and I'm so torn between one that gets me out of my current shitty place with a methhead sledging my
iwenttousersubandalligotwasthislousyusername
Ceiling and what would be my first ever union job. I've heard what difference a union can make but it's also night-owl shift
iwenttousersubandalligotwasthislousyusername
Sorry for oversharing, anyway even the gig with the union shop doesn't have as good of benefits as people just narutally have in Europe
AdmiralBananaSplitter1
Union jobs are a step in the right direction.
turkeydonkey
The union job might be better, but not all unions are equal by far. You're probably still better off at the union shop though.
pr3viso
Graveyard shift has it's perks. Most admins gone, better team cohesion.less traffic. Better if you're single.
iwenttousersubandalligotwasthislousyusername
I'm not single, and my girlfriend (going on 2 years) works first shift. I love second shift, but graveyard isn't my thing generally although
JustChargeYourDamnPhone
It you want days it’s just a matter of putting in time at the union shop. And you might like nights. I’m a morning person when I work nights
iwenttousersubandalligotwasthislousyusername
I've loved "night shift" as in late second shift 3-1:30, but overnights wrecked my physical and mental health while I did them, but I was
paigeunicorn
As an American, I'm shocked in getting paid for a 10 day quarantine.
thetinyhousepanther
As an American (nurse), I’m getting none.
paigeunicorn
My sister is a CNA, I cannot believe the way things are being handled for medical staff. I'm so sorry
erzengal
Company doesn't help with pay anymore. Have to jump through hoops for fmla. Which just encourages people to come in sick.
witalaska4
Exactly. Because conservatives would consider this “Socialism”
Noksus
Socialism is only bad if it benefits the population! It's not bad when it only benefits the policy makers and the rich!!!
hildr
Because it is, and there is nothing bad about it.
SergeyPrkl
no it's not socialism, it's socialdemocratism.
witalaska4
I wholeheartedly agree
Kuvajainen
Profile says swiss italian living in Italy!
Derfboy
Damn. And all this time I'm not...
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Kuvajainen
I'd say it's probably the food and women. But what do I know, I don't even really like italian food!
Goldensands
Have you been? Genuine Italian food is divine. Americanised version is mud in comparison
Kuvajainen
I have! Just not my cup of tea. Also I'm not american. :)
TikkaMasalaBaby
coz I am based of Milano.but truthfully coz taxes, to be precise salary vs cost of living.and it’s just and 1 1/2 drive away once a week.
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TikkaMasalaBaby
Yup work is in Swiss side and reside in Milano… other way it would be insane just with the rent haha,,
MadamPuddifoot
I skipped over Swiss at first and was confused by "Italian living in Italy". I need coffee.
KrondorMocker
Kuvajainen
Who, me? Nooooo....
ThisIsYourLifeNow
KrondorMocker