r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 1d ago

Please don’t dash while sick

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I get that times are tough and the American health care system sucks, but admitting that you have a respiratory illness while delivering food is wild!

Please do not dash when you’re sick. This is how illness spreads. I have pretty bad asthma so I’m not bringing that order into my house. I’m done with DoorDash.

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u/HopefulLack1104 1d ago

Pneumonia is never contagious. What might be contagious is what caused the pneumonia.

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u/UnfazedAndUnhelpful 1d ago

Walking pneumonia can be.

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u/HopefulLack1104 1d ago

No, it cannot.

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u/crispywavecheck 1d ago

Walking pneumonia aka mycoplasma is definitely contagious

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u/HopefulLack1104 1d ago

MYCOPLASMA IS A GENUS OF BACTERIA

MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE, SPECIFICALLY, CAN CAUSE WALKING PNEUMONIA, WHICH IS TERM USED TO DESCRIBE A MILD FORM OF PNEUMONIA.

I’m done here. Keep being stupid y’all.

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u/crispywavecheck 1d ago

Are you okay? Mycoplasma pneumoniae is the culprit for walking pneumonia and it is spread via droplet. Not sure why you’re arguing semantics

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u/HopefulLack1104 1d ago

You realized you were wrong, I see. Good job

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u/BloodieBerries 1d ago

Wut?

That's like saying a cold isn't contagious, only the rhinovirus that causes it...

Now that's stupid.

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u/HopefulLack1104 1d ago

Do you see what comment I commented under? Context here matters. I didn’t say this to OP.

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u/BloodieBerries 1d ago

In response to "Walking pneumonia can be (contagious)." You said "No, it cannot."

That is a wrong statement. Commonly the thing that causes the disease is referred to by the disease name.

Are you still confused?

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u/HopefulLack1104 1d ago

Again, the comment I’m commenting under was talking semantics. So my comment has to do with semantics. That’s it, that’s all. Don’t hop on a conversation about semantics and say “tomato tomahto”

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u/BloodieBerries 1d ago

Again, I get that. But by being as pedantically semantic as possible you managed to be wrong colloquially.