When you have a family depending on you you would understand.
This will work but I fear I shall be outcasted from the industry forever due to being a carrier.Start with small coughs so people can hear you. As soon as people notice and ask questions say naah im fine. Then later take a min pause say you have bad headache and cough little bit. Then confirm you fine. Before you know they will suggest you go home. Refuse and say I don’t want to let the team down and I got bills. Let them insist. You will pull this off because every farax has barkhad abdi acting skills in them
Write an anonymous email from an anonymous email address (triple check to make sure you aren't mistakenly sending it from your email address) to HR that you tested positive for the Chinese virus a few days ago but you don't want to self quarantine because you will lose your income. Act naive and clueless. That way, they will have to tell everyone to go home.
An Asian woman had the sniffles last week and the entire building was evacuated. We are all working from home now.