You learn a lot when you move from investigator to subject. I just heard about Drive-by Tylenol for day-care and school age kids. This is the practice of stuffing a couple of Tylenol down the little tyke's throat to bring down a fever just before entering the daycare center. The objective is to get 4 or 5 hours of work in before being called to school because your child has a fever. The underground lore about it includes not using any flavored Tylenol preps with red dye in them so that when the child urps up everthing after lunch there will be no tell-tale pink color savvy teachers will recognize. The teachers have no such problem. Many of them are also coming to the classroom sick. We don't pay teachers well and many have no benefits. They can't afford to miss work any more than their parents can miss work when their kids are sick. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the US is alone among 22 wealthy nations not having a mandatory sick leave policy:

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