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the idea of consuming two conflicting things that promise to do the opposite of each other has always been hilarious to me. there’s a liquid shot-based sleep aid called 6 hour sleep and as soon as I saw it i immediately imagined mixing it and a 5 hour energy together for a 1 hour nap

mix NyQuil and DayQuil to create Quil

what does Quil do

All the time all the time

Okay so, I did this, kind of. In junior year of high school I was taking History of the Americas (very very hard tests, like at least one person is guaranteed to cry). So one day I had one of these tests when I was /sick as hell/. Like I woke up and could not breathe through my nose. Everything was snot and headache and I know it’s gross, but like I’m trying to convey how desperate the times were. I went to take a DayQuil, but could only find NyQuil in the house. So i was like “fuck it, there’s no way this could be worse. ha. Anyway i take this and get to class and like already im about to pass out so during my independent study I go out and get a coffee and a five hour energy. Thinking like “okay I’ll die, but it should balance out for a bit.” And it did, initially. But then. As soon as I walk in the doors to class, it hit and I’m looking at my friend and he’s like “did you smoke, your pupils are like fucking quarters” and I’m like “o no.” So the test starts and my brain is feeling like that substance that’s like both a liquid and a substance simultaneously. And the test format is like this huge paper. So I get going on it, and here’s what happened:

-I wrote six pages front and back in 45 minutes
-I felt like I could “zoom in” “zoom out” my vision
-I asked one girl if I could borrow a pen three times and she was freaked out so I had three pens on my desk
-after the test I crashed HARD in the physics room and they had to push me out of a chair to wake me up
-but like, I got an A on the test. So I’m not saying try it, but

why do i keep reading stories about kids going to school sick on this website?? is it a USA thing? a UK thing? a someplace-else thing? when I was a kid, if I woke up with my head and nose all stuffy and miserable on a test day (or any other day), I would friggin’ stay home and make up the test/homework/whatever AFTER I got better.

wtf folks????

The US is an uncivilized, backwards-ass dystopia in which people are EXPECTED and ENCOURAGED to go to work or school when sick. People who go to work or school when sick are admired for their work ethic, because Americans believe in working harder, not smarter. The American work ethic is largely performative.

Plus, a lot of places will impose consequences if you stay home sick (for example, refusing to let students take a make-up test) unless you have a doctor’s note. But since our health care is for-profit, you have to PAY to get a doctor’s note to prove you were sick. And even if you have insurance (which costs a shitload of money), there are still copays and deductibles to worry about. The upshot is that about half the country can’t afford to stay home when they’re sick.

I personally have gone to work with a 104 degree (Fahrenheit) fever before, because I simply couldn’t afford to take time off, and especially considering I would be losing money from not going in, I definitely couldn’t afford a doctor’s visit on top of that. It was either “go in and hope I don’t start an epidemic” or “stay home and hope I don’t get fired and that can still afford to eat.”