A Question for Captains and Above: Did you go sick?

The stories about Tell-A-Story and now Morris getting hit with the China Bioweapon makes me remember a story told to me by a newly promoted captain over 20 years ago. 

The way he explained it, in Captain's BMOC or whatever they called it, the powers that be made it clear that sick leave was for cops, not captains. (I want to say that Shorty Scagnelli was the one who made the remark.)

Captains were expected to show up and do their job, whether they felt well or not.  If they did go sick, they were pretty well crucified by the borough (adjunct) or the Borough Commander.  Their evals would suffer and with that, the prospects of getting a command and by extension, getting promoted. 

This was over 20 years ago, and this would have been right around the time that Morris and the Slumlord Roadside Repair Phony were climbing up the ladder.  

I think that they probably were of that mindset and came to work, thinking they were either doing the loyal work of the PD, or that they did not want the stigma of going sick.

If my theory holds water, they endangered everyone they came in contact with,  INCLUDING THEIR FELLOW MOS...adhering to this insane metric of how good an employee they are/were. 

I'd be very interested in hearing from executives and knowing if this edict actually did exist.