Coughing and sneezing in public

[MissEliza]

Just want a bit of a rant. In the last week I have been directly coughed on twice whilst out and about. First time was when walking out of a train station and I passed a woman who coughed in my face. Second time was just now when I was sitting drinking coffee and someone coughed ON me as they walked past. What is wrong with people these days?? Weren't they brought up to cover their mouths?

Actually I've never had the flu jab and I'm wondering if I should.

This really irritates me. Some people are just filthy. I also think some people use their coughs as a ‘weapon’ to try to intimidate people to move out of their way. Like ‘move or I will cough on your face’.

I admire the gall of the spitting man but don’t particularly want to be arrested for assault!

The worst has to be covering their mouths and then wiping hands on the seats or rails or anything else the public will trust.
I think wet wipes the antibacterial variety should be compulsory.
If you are stopped and searched and you don't have them, then you can be fined.
Masks also compulsory for anyone who has a cold/flu.

I think NHS staff recommend fold of the arm if no tissue. Not too bad a thing to get your immune system used to handling a few germs though!

Fold of the arm makes sense. I don't think it's realistic to expect the average person to carry antibacterial gel

Isn't a cold a virus though? Surely antibacterial gel won't help with that.

(I'm not condoning it btw, I think it's disgusting)

I think alcohol gel does both, will have to check. I wouldn't have thought it would help with airborne germs

It's bad for your immune system if you're a premature baby or going through chemo.

Take pity on us checkout people who are constantly sneezed at, coughed over, handling products that have been touched with freshly sneezed on hands.
Oh and then taking the coins from freshly sneezed hands... notes people like to hold in there mouth.
People purchasing there cold and flu stuff on a self scan and when you go to authorise it dont give you any space just continue to stand fave level with us coughing away... it is grim.
Sorry rant over and im sure ther are many stories coming of when checkout persons sneezed etc and i agree its all grim.
Ong just stop the world i want to get off not envy

Also cant stand the non hand washers...
wondering where i can purchase a large bubble to live in to be honest xx

We were on holiday recently and people were complaining that they were getting ill 'because of the food' in the beautiful all inclusive. Err no, it will be because of the disgusting people - the bloke who picked through sliced bread with his fingers (touching about 12 other slices before he settled on 'his'), the woman walking around the buffet coughing without covering her mouth and the woman sat in the pool talking loudly about the rotten diarrhoea she'd been suffering from all morning.....😡🤢

I was born in the 70s and was always told to cover my mouth when I coughed or sneezed. Slightly misguided as I wasn't told to wash my hands afterwards.
I cough or sneeze into the crook of my arm and my now adult kids were taught the same.
My DH doesn't cover his mouth. His computer screen is covered in splatter marks. When I have to use it or the remote he controls I feel manky and have to wash my hands after.
Some people are minging. Some through ignorance, some through arrogance and selfishness........like, their germs are ok to share or something?

I am currently raging with cold and coughing and spluttering . Sadly I am in a hotel in Birmingham. I am on the 5th packet of tissues due to covering my mouth and nose when spluttering . I do carry anti bacterial hand gel and am eating in my room (Well not that hungry actually) so I don't dish it round. Fortunately I have my own office for work tomorrow so won't be sharing my germs any more than I have to. It's really not difficult.

This is a massive hate of mine! When I see grown adults sneezing into their hands then look and just rub their hands together...honestly I could be sick thinking about it! With the dab being all the rage I tell my kids if ur gonna sneeze with tissue not to hand dab in in your elbow...your hands that you use to touch everything should never be the place to blow your germs into!!

I have allergies. I sneeze maybe 50-100 times a day, if not more. I don't use my hand. I use my arm. Or I'd have not skin on my hands.

I have to disclose my private medical information multiple times a day as I work in a health care environment where people look at you with daggers if you sneeze. I'm forever saying it's allergies, not germs. And actually it's quite upsetting to have to tell people all the time, to stop nasty looks.

thismustbemydream are you me? All through school the class would stop and they'd count my sneezes

Reading the comments on here has made me feel absolutely awful. I always do my best, every pocket and sleeve full of tissues but it's very hard when my sneezes come out of nowhere and you are juggling, shopping children and desperately summoning your poor pelvic floor whilst still trying to look a reasonable part of the human race.

The worst bit is the shopkeepers that would look at my eczema ravaged hands and then very pointedly place my change on the counter. Bastards.

When I sneeze, I do everything in my power to contain it, I do it quietly, too

Apparently this is not good for you. I have issues with my ears and have had 2 different ENT’s tell me that when going to sneeze never to stifle it but open your mouth wide and make the sneeze come out your mouth. So basically it ends up as a huge sneezey cough. Supposedly doesn’t put as much pressure on your ears that way. I always cover my mouth but it takes both hands as the output is huge this way so you have to rely on both being free when the sneeze strikes. People still stare though as it’s quite a spectacle.

I have cancer and a hugely reduced immune system. Just come back off a 2 week cruise that I saved for months to afford and was in bed for a fortnight with a vile cough and cold within 3 days if getting home.

I have to say full marks to the cruise company for their splendid hygiene - but fucking hell some of the passengers made me want to punch them with their selfish atitudes to cleanliness. There were huge notices in all toilets reminding everyone to wash their hands and take a tissue to use to protect everyone from germ transmission when opening the door, but the amount of women who just walked straight out without so much as looking at the basin, never mind washing their hands was enormous. And don't even get me started about the dirty bastards who thought the food tongs weren't meant for them to use at the buffet.

I'm very sure the bitch in the disembarkation lounge, who coughed all over everyone and let snot stream down her face until she was almost drinking it before using a filthy tissue, was the cause of my illness.

AntiSocialAgnes

YANBU - can't believe people do it. Feeling their cough splatter on your face or back of your neck is vile. Right up there with gross people who spit in the street just as you pass them. UGH