When you are sick, you can care, openly care, about the intra-cousinal love lives of Ricki Lake's guests. Of course, the key to sickly bliss is being really good and sick. You can't simply have a bit of flu, or a touch of some plague that's going around. Nor can you just be work sick. Work sick is totally different from sick sick.
Sick sick is physical.
Work sick is motivational. The only people who don't understand the difference between sick sick and work sick are bosses. Bosses think all sick is work sick. So if you call in sick, even if you are under the care of a mortician, the boss thinks you are work sick. But if you come in sick, the boss thinks you are a trouper, even though what you really are is a carrier.