Pity the snowflakes. As if being struck down by illness wasn’t bad enough – including record high levels of flu that could lead to 8,000 hospitalisations this week – they’re being lambasted for office-dodging for wanting to keep their germs at home.

Life shouldn’t stop on account of a sniffle, obviously. But it remains bizarre that, with a global pandemic in recent memory and seasonal viruses wreaking havoc , coming into the workplace while streaming from numerous parts of your face is considered something to aim for.

This mentality has inevitably helped to create the “tidal wave” of flu now hitting the UK so hard that the chief executive of NHS Providers (which represents NHS trusts) has advised that those with symptoms wear masks in public. Extreme, perhaps, but with a much-mutated

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