German workers will have to report to a doctor in person to get a sick note on the first day they are ill, under strict proposals from Friedrich Merz.

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    What if they use telehealth? I’d talk to an AI if it auto emailed my workplace after offering no resistance if I had the flu

    Though tech obviously isn’t the answer because the question isn’t the feasibility of of accepting volume of routine cases. The question is why would they pass such a shitty law so disrespectful of disease, autonomy, and logistics?

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      What if they use telehealth? I’d talk to an AI if it auto emailed my workplace after offering no resistance if I had the flu

      Nope, this is also specifically not possible under that law. Doctors could write sick leaves via telephone during the Corona years, but smart economists diagnosed that as a source of malingering as well, so we can’t have that.