My dad had a worker come in last week a day after she tested for COVID, and obviously the test turned out positive.
My dad is not young and has been very careful. So stupid that he now has to have exposure because people are so stupid. Besides that, he had to go into quarantine for yuntif, ruining his yuntif. What was this lady thinking. She knew she might test positive and have to tell him. What did she gain by hiding.
Besides not being able to go to their children (each one that lives locally had a kid in quarantine), my parents now spent yuntif not together. I just don't get what this virus does to make people stupid
I'm going to offer a potential explanation of the thought process, this is assuming there is no known exposure.
If someone wakes up one morning feeling a little lousy, most people don't assume it's COVID. So they can either quarantine likely needlessly to see if the symptoms pass or they can go about their day and see if it gets better. Most people will choose the latter, especially when this can happen to them fairly often.
This person may have chosen to be a little more cautious and get tested. The alternative was not getting tested and continuing life as usual for a few more days which would have been worse. I'm not saying this is the case, but it is very likely.
Needing to use a sick day is definitely an incentive to choose this option.