California

I caught COVID prior to cases officially detected in the U.S., so did the RN caring for our patient prior to his demise, both of us naive to what that was prior to symptom information coming out, both of us heaved the "oh that's what that was blanked out our taste/smell" in restrospect. Both of us were back at work still sniffling and short of breath, neither of us were appropriately there in retrospect, falling far short of quarantine times later imposed.
My boss was not very understanding about my absence, gave me a rash of shit even when I couldn't even stand up or move air. I didn't get seen because the ED doc on duty those days was one I could not tolerate, would have done nothing for me anyhow. I exhausted two whole asthma inhalers for two miserable nights. After several entanglements with both those characters resulting in my leaving that job, in retrospect I wish I'd come in to work and coughed all over my boss's office and that pretentious excuse of an MD...
I've had jobs before that made me wonder what possessed me to stay there so long in such miserable conditions. Nearing retirement I've become far more particular about workplace nastiness and horrible bosses. Damn, I've had some doozeys.