To think that people should be panicking over a child sneezing

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In the supermarket this morning and DD randomly
Sneezed a couple times. She does have a mild snotty nose. No fever, no cough definitely just a runny nose. She also has a cat allergy. She visited my grans yesterday and every time she does she sneezes for a couple days afterwards. I believe she is allergic to them like her daddy.

The Sainsburys worker looked at me in disgust and asked if she should be in here.

I know people are concerned. I get the panic..

Aibu to think that people are just getting usual common colds, normal viruses, normal bugs that aren’t coronavirus and a child’s sneeze is nothing to worry about.

Kids are coughing and sneezing constantly anyway!

Aibu to take my kid to the supermarket without feeling guilty? She’s not poorly...

People are stupid

YANBU. I had to take DS to hospital yesterday for his chest and people were giving us dirty looks. What he has isn't contagious. I suppose it's good people are more aware potentially, but what all of this really highlights is how gross some people are who walk around sneezing and coughing without covering their mouth, and didn't seem to use handwash before this! Or wipe their arses.

Pissing at the poster who thinks it’s bad manners for an actual baby not to whip out a handkerchief to sneeze into 😂😂 god people my baby could use her hanky at 3 months old ! Your kids are heathens ! 😂

Once the hay fever season kicks off properly there are going to be a lot of social outcasts.

I thought this as well. The trees are blossoming round here and we have already had a few hayfevery sniffles. The mild winter means it will happen earlier

A friend of mine has observed people
Being idiotic in this manner and today is harnessing the power of it to clear the queues in the supermarket and to scare away daft panic buyers. Apparently it’s worked on a few aswell 😂

Where are all these crazy people? I went shopping in a fairly busy city centre this morning. No one wearing pointless face masks (apart from the Chinese / Asian students as they usually do for pollution), no one freaking out about hand gel or sneezing.

In the tram yesterday there was one woman hoicking up mucus and spitting it into a handkerchief, and another woman allowing her small child to cough repeatedly onto the seat covers, without offering her a hanky or anything. I doubt either has Coronavirus, but I found both of them pretty disgusting anyway. There are lots of illnesses I don't want to catch. Maybe your daughter's sneezing was just quite snotty and disgusting.

My cat sneezes quiet a lot.

Hay-fever doesn't kick off in January!! Allergic rhinitis might though! I have perennial allergic rhinitis. Just means I have all year round allergies! I also get sinus infections especially in the Winter. And have constant post nasal drip which causes a constant cough.

I’m immunosuppressed & I do not expect babies (or young kids) to sneeze into their hankies 😂😂😂 hilarious

Immunosuppressed people don’t usually behave like snowflakes either!

"Everyone's in a state atm. I went to the supermarket yesterday evening and all the customers were giving each other a wide berth"
I've not seen a single person in real life in a state. Been at work all week, everyone is fine. Been to town today, everyone is fine. Noone giving anyone a wide berth, noone stockpiling anything.

I don’t know, I get a baby sneezing can’t be helped but a man was moaning in my local fb page that his dad vomited in the street the other day and that people covered their mouths and walked away, like come on!! What else did he expect.

I have the same, Hollyhobbi.

I do always cough into my sleeve though, or a tissue.

tabbymumz same here! Thank goodness

Nope!

If everyone panicked everytime someone sneezed, we would all be having heart attacks from so much anxiety.

I sneeze a lot at work. Not because I have a cold, but something there triggers me. I don’t know if it’s dust or air conditioning or what, but I end up sneezing several times every day

@TabbyMumz

I'll rephrase it then. Everyone's in a state in my neighbourhood, lots of items are out of stock at the supermarket; customers were wearing gloves in the supermarket and anti-baccing trolleys in a way I've never seen before. People are talking about cancelling holidays - they don't want to, but thinking they might have to.

Not a major panic, but definitely abnormal.

I was in a large meeting at work with a snotty nose and fairly regularly blowing into my handkerchief. Nobody cared. But then I don't work with idiots.

A young child sneezing, I wouldn't bat an eyelid. Coronavirus or not I do judge adults who make no effort to contain their coughs or sneezes in a hygienic manner.

To be fair to those moving away, this is very high up in the WHO recommendations for preventing the spread of coronavirus.

’Maintain social distancing

Maintain at least 1 metre (3 feet) distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing.

Why? When someone coughs or sneezes they spray small liquid droplets from their nose or mouth which may contain virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the droplets, including the COVID-19 virus if the person coughing has the disease.

Small children sneezing is probably not particularly high risk, but regardless of Covid-19, it’s well understood that humans are predisposed to find some things disgusting. Inevitably, that disgust is more likely to be expressed openly in a time when there are so many unknown facts and people are afraid. It is not irrational, even if it goes against our social conventions of politeness.

I'm not worried about covid-19 but I've been giving people disgusted looks for years (and receiving them myself - I have an asthma type cough so I frequently get dirty looks/people moving away from me on public transport, I just laugh at it and enjoy the extra personal space) just because people coughing and sneezing over you/things you've got to touch/without covering their nose and mouth is horrible (and prior to the covid-19 hysteria there have been numerous threads on here too about how gross it is). So yabu to assume that people not wanting your DD to sneeze near them are either panicking or think she has covid-19.

Also yabu to say colds/sniffles aren't coronavirus, ~15% are. Covid-19 is a type of coronavirus.

The virus is not well spread at the moment. When it has children sneezing will be a high risk way to get it.

How dare your DD sneeze

My ds coughed a lot the other day, people physically recoiled from him I agree op, people are hyped up and panicking.

I saw the one-metre advice. Here in Germany the advice is 1 or 2 metres.
Clearly advice written by people who don't use public transport and are just imagining gliding around in their cars, then making a quick dash into their private office.

I sneezed my way round Asda yesterday. No one seemed too bothered 😁