Delaqroux Inc Updates.
I just realized (that was a lie, i didnt just realized. i realized this so long ago) that my college and its lecturers are quite extreme in the policy of perfect class attendance. If you are sick, you should report to the HEP, fill up a couple of forms, pass the forms to the lecturers of the classes you'll be missing, and send a copy to your mentor, all alongside an MC letter. Even when you do that, you cant be excused to rest in your dorm, you'll have to be in HEP's sickbay until lecture hours is over. Due to this tediousness, many resort to either screw the whole form filling bullshit and just stay at home, or attend class anyway. I was the latter today and i find how disturbingly disturbing that IPBA put so much emphasis on trainee's attendance while setting aside epidemic control. Oh, and at times, the lecturers do provide an exception for those who really are sick to skip/postpone the form filling and stuffs. But only to the extent of a really 'sick' sickness. Common colds or cough is not accepted.
"Disturbingly disturbing" is a synonym of "stupidly stupid" by the way.
So yes, i find this really stupid coz for one main reason, sick people, even those with common cold, can be contagious. Recently, a whole lot of students from my cohort have been sick - one after another. One person will attend class, sneezing and coughing all the way, and when that person is recovering, another person fall sick. there has never been a perfectly healthy attendance. Cant the lecturers see a pattern there? It's so obvious that we are infecting one another!
The HEP may argue that this is the reason why they have sickbays for sick students. I would say that the idea is basically to quarantine sick students from infecting one another and that is a good effort to stop the spreading of virus. But seriously, how disease proof enough are the sickbays? For all i know, i might just end up infecting the whole HEP staffs and (while i dont really mind doing that), we're back to square one. In other words, contagious students should be quarantined away from everyone else - not other students but also college staffs, and lecturers. Also getting into the sickbay is another problem. With all the form filling and the form handing out, nothing there suggest that i havent able to spread my viruses all over the college by the time i'm done. I cover my hand when i sneeze, i didnt sanitize my hand before filling in the form and i hand over the form to the lecturers. There you go. And finally, which is possibly the strongest argument of all, who would want to be quarantined in the HEP? For all i care, even when i'm healthy, i'll try my best to avoid that place. Now that i'm sick, i should stay in that place? Judgemental eyes of the staffs for the sick soul? No thank you.
Of course, i'm not trying to freak anyone here nor am i bad-mouthing the college but i really see nothing wrong with staying in the dorm when i'm unwell. Other students are in class so there's basically no one to infect. Filling up forms and all those formalities are good efforts to make sure student dont skip classes intentionally with the excuse of a fake sickness. But seriously, how far does that go in stopping students from faking their sickness. Also, MCs are not given for common colds or cough in clinics so forms that has to be included with an MC letter cannot be filled. And if my illness is that serious, i might not even be able to make it to the sickbay nor the clinic for the MC. My choice is to either stay in the dorm (which is illegal) or just attend the class anyway (not a smart choice but at least that's better than running around getting to clinic for MCs, having to fill in and pass up forms and infecting the whole world in the process) So, seriously, what should we do if we fall sick in IPBA?Non of IPBA's epidemic control system make any sense. Isnt it time someone retake a look at all these bullcrap?
So, til then. This is me, sneezing my lungs out in a lecture hall with approximately 125 other students, bidding you for a healthy life ahead.
Delaqroux Out.
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