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...

Some people are just being ridiculous! Poor kid should be locked away in case she dares too sneeze...... really?

I was under the impression that sneezing wasn't really a characteristic of coronavirus.

Children arent the ones spreading coronovirus Its the old people who are more likely to have it. In China I think hardly any children got it. These people are idiots. We live in a society so used to blaming children and parents for everything they cant use common sense.

I've been getting so many dirty looks just recently it's getting to the point where I'm wary about sneezing in public. It's not my fault, I'm allergic to all sorts, have a very sensitive nose and am prone to sneezing fits

@StinkyWizleteets
I know you're talking about cat allergies, but I audibly snorted on the bus reading that! Clearly I have a dirtier mind than everyone else on this thread

A snotty cold is not a symptom of coronavirus, so yes people are very stupid to be alarmed by a child with a cold.

This.

@Hollyhobbi I'm exactly like you. I hate it. Even with antihistamines and a steroid nasal spray, some days I still sneeze a lot

@Conrad79 not quite sure I can take the bloke questioning baby's hygiene seriously.

I've had an extremely bad cough since 1st January. Still got it. So clearly, not coronavirus, I'm no longer contagious. I'm coughing into tissues and the crook of my arm, but feeling very self-conscious when out and about. One coughing attack, I managed to choke out between coughs to a couple that had turned to look 'NOT coronavirus', to which, thankfully, they laughed.

I am staying in as much as possible though, because I do understand people, particularly those who are immuno-compromised, are fearful.

My sister had a coughing fit on the Tube the other day (just something in her throat) and the carriage practically cleared!!

@StinkyWizleteets had do you expect the "their kids" aspect of your post to be able to take out a tissue etc? Do you expect them to be locked away until they're four and able to control sneezes and effectively use a tissue?

Sorry you're immunosuppressed, my son is also. He is however a lot more realistic about real life.

I was in bed all last weekend. Just couldn't keep my eyes opened and have had a cough ever since. Normally this would be classed as a normal cough/possibly flu however everyone in my work is giving me crazy eyes everytime I cough. I have a very loud cough and everyone in the building has been asking who had the awful cough and am I being careful and using a tissue to cough into and disposing of it and using hand sanitiser. It's mad.

DS has a cold, he’s 13 months old. I’ve just about managed to teach him some animal impressions, but haven’t yet managed to get him to take out a tissue to cough/sneeze into! Should we be staying at home?
Thankfully I haven’t seen any evidence of the supposed ‘panic’ here. People are concerned of course, but so far we are still able to buy soap, toilet roll and dettol and I haven’t yet seen anyone recoil in horror at my baby coughing!

Hay-fever doesn't kick off in January!! Allergic rhinitis might though!

When does the pedantry season start?

Coronavirus is not even in the top 50 of things I’m worried about. The thing that does terrify me, is how grown adults are panicking over this and in turn passing on the hysteria to their children. Panic is never the best option in any situation. Be concerned and protect yourself by all means, but the reaction of some people is utterly pathetic IMO.

What Thurman says (above).

Panicking gets nobody anywhere. It's flu - it isn't nice, and as we don't have anything to counter this particular strain, probably more people will be very unwell, and a few more than average will die (I know that if it's someone you love it's 100%, but in terms of actual numbers it is still minimal).

All any of us can do is take sensible precautions - not buy up ridiculous amounts of loo roll and hand sanitiser etc, not start painting red crosses on the neighbours doors if they cough, not screaming "unclean" at any kid with a runny nose.

It will take it's course - the govt are preparing for the worst because that is their job - to be prepared - but I can't believe the hysteria I've heard about the situation (but actually haven't encountered IRL).

I am always sneezing at work, i think i am allergic to one of my colleagues

actually a colleague coughed in my face yesterday
i was out shopping and noticed people coughing without covering their mouths.

YANBU. DD had a cough/cold thing start on Wed, it was quite a bad cough tbf, but simple common sense told me it was still just that, not the bloody corona virus.
Waiting to drop her off outside breakfast club she was coughing and ALL the parents moved away from her with their own DC.
Utterly ridiculous! School were obviously unconcerned as they let her in no complaint, and no one called me during the day to request I pick her up.
Today she is pretty much over it after getting a bit better each day.
I don't normally keep her off school for a cough/cold, I'm not doing it now just because other people are overly paranoid

it might be covid, but it might not.
we dont know

I sneeze when I look at the sun

You shouold have said educate yourself on covd symptoms silly cow

i believe i read most people will get it, in a mild form,

It depends on how she sneezed, does she sneeze into a tissue or the air/on other people?

Have you taught her to sneeze into a tissue OP?

If so, YANBU.

If not, YABU.

@UntamedWisteria yes I have, she always carried a packet of paw patrol tissues everywhere she goes because she likes to but I think with all children (she’s just 4 and also has additional needs) sometimes it comes on suddenly and they don’t have a tissue to hand. She’s not poorly or anything.