Are bubbles a covid risk?

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It's been beautiful here today so we took the DC down to the riverbank for a picnic. DD (2) wanted to take her bubbles and she was blowing them on and off for quite a bit of the two and a half hours we were there. It was busy enough but not packed; there was, at a guess, about 20 other families, all well spread out. Towards the end of the afternoon, a man was walking by and then approached us and said (well, more like shouted) that we shouldn't be blowing covid bubbles all over the place and that one popped near his face so he has now been exposed and will have to take the day off work until he can have a test.
I am fully prepared to be told IWBU - it honestly didn't occur to me that my child blowing bubbles could be a covid risk but I am aware that this man thought it was. Was I being unreasonable in allowing my DC to blow bubbles at the riverbank this afternoon?

I feel as though I've gone back in time to spring 2020!

FFS the world has totally lost its sense of perspective

if someone is that scared of catching a virus from a kid blowing a few bubbles probably best they stay home and avoid human contact

OP - You are totally NBU - COVID has given a charter to people to feel they can abuse total strangers all in the name of 'staying safe'

In what way are bubbles bad for the environment please?

At a park/large open soacedc2 did get hit by a bubble. Think is wason hand which we then sanitised.
I do think that parent was in the wrong as it was slightly windy and we were several meters away.
So i would say do bubbles in your own garden or empty space.
However we went back to same park this weekend. And worse one parent had a kid there who sounded like they had whooping cough. Literally non stop and was also collapsed on the floor - not playing. They were 100% not well enough to be there (even without covid issues).
Anyway a man say down on our largish bench. Not paying any kids any attention so it wasnt till this dc sat down basically next to me that i realised he was the dad. So obviously we left. I would rather not get a normal cough (especially one so bad!). But also im quite certain lots are not testing.

Even without covid times i doubt id sit such an ill child so close to others

You sanitised your child's hand because it got hit with a bubble? So many children are going to grow up with huge health anxiety.

The risk of the person blowing the bubble being infected is low, the risk of the bubble containing live virus is even lower and the risk of your child rubbing the virus from their hand into their mouth/nose and contracting the virus is even lower then the risk of your child becoming ill or severely ill with the virus is minuscule.

The risk of children becoming afraid of viruses (a normal part of life) and of other people every time you reinforce it with ridiculous sanitising is quite a bit higher.

Wash your children's hands after toilet, before food and when you come home. That's plenty.

This thread makes me want to cry and bash my head against a wall and scream.

Is there no joy allowed at all anymore, ever? A fucking baby blowing bubbles. Give me strength. Send the fucking comet.

Humans are a Covid risk. Humans. If you’re still scared then stay indoors forever.