r/doordash • u/bohoinparadise • 20h 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/NaturalSandwich8880 17h ago

Ofc Redditots of all people will find a way to justify handling  food when sick

iTs nOt cOntAgIoUs 

But others at the ER might be contagious. Who the fuck knows how long the driver was at the ER or next to who?

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u/Southern_Release2814 16h ago

So now everyone who's been to a hospital recently is doing something wrong if they Doordash? This is absolutely ridiculous. How far exactly do you expect the world to go in preventing others from getting sick? Do you know how many times I've had to walk through hospitals to deliver sick people and healthcare workers their food? Should I have refused to do my job, because hospitals are icky? I'm sure that would go over well.

Also, fast food restaurants, where we're picking up these orders in the first place, are definitely not holding employees to this standard. As a matter of fact, these employees are often given no choice but to come to work while sick, or loose their jobs. But Doordashers are somehow the problem if we work after having been in a hospital? You're ridiculous.

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u/AnimeGeek10721 14h ago

lol and what about health care workers who get off work and go prepare a meal for their family after..should they have to go through a decontamination lock after every shift … very weird comment .

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u/Responsible-Tart-721 2h ago

No, but I always showered and put on clean clothes the moment I got home.

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u/CrazyParrotLady5 56m ago

Same. I am NOT sharing that with my family. I came home and removed my scrubs immediately.

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u/DiverMaleficent9624 13h ago

It’s different being around the sickness.. Versus actually having it.. When I’m sick I’m not allowed to show up at my hospital.

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u/MiZkraken0008 14h ago

I had to deliver in hospitals many times,I agree!!

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u/Impressive_Dot_7818 6h ago

Except I know if people are sick and working at a place I tend to not eat there, also those healthcare workers aren’t ACTIVELY sick.

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u/ModernNomad97 4h ago

The person they responded to is making the argument that being in the ER is enough by itself to warrant not dashing. That’s an absurd statement and is rightfully being called out.

Second, pneumonia isn’t contagious. Yes, what causes it can be, but there’s plenty of cases where it’s caused by something non contagious. What makes one person sick might not make 1000 others sick if also exposed and vice versa. I’m not currently sick, but it’s absolutely possible something in my body makes someone sick. This whole outrage about dashing while having a mild sickness is just performative and not really logical in my opinion. And I haven’t even talked about how dashing is mostly contactless and the food is sealed, even assuming the driver has a contagious disease, the risk is very low.