LZ Granderson: Working while sick has become the terrible new normal

January is the month to sign up for stuff you're probably not going to keep doing later. Like cooking class or hot yoga. It's also the month for setting goals, especially at work, where goals often come with lunch and a side of office politics.

Suffice to say January is not the month to be sick.

And yet millions of us are. because of COVID-19, RSV and the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms range from sore throats and coughs that won't go away to fevers that refuse to break.