Etiquette in the age of H1N1

Over the past six weeks, I have three times thought that I MIGHT be coming down with a bug.  On each occasion, I was just a day or two away from some event or meeting in which I felt an urgent obligation to participate.  Twice, I was wrong about the bug, but the suspicious symptoms didn’t pass until the day of the event or meeting. I wasn’t so lucky the third time.  Convinced it was once again a phantom complaint, I blithely dosed my head and body aches with acetaminophen and went about my business.  Around the second hour of the five-hour event, my throat turned scratchy and I knew I’d made the wrong decision.  I quietly left, feeling like Typhoid Mary.

Sound familiar?

As I nurse my tea with honey and lemon and suck on lozenges, I thought this might be a good time to poll this conscientious readership for their opinion: Under the same circumstances, would you have just sent your apologies and stayed home? Yes or no?

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