Manners in a doctors surgery

[Belle82]

I was in a doctors surgery today and a Mum sitting quite close to me had her two children with her, the little boy was about 6-7 (I think, could have been older) kept sneezing and coughing and didn’t put his hand over his mouth and the Mum didn’t say anything each time even though there were a lot of people in the waiting room 2 newborn babies and a few older people (70ish +) who could pick up colds and be quite ill from them.
It just surprised me is all, I remember my mum telling me when ever I forgot to put my hand over my mouth, not that she had to do it a lot, soon cottoned on 😊
But is this something parents still teach their children or am I being a bit old fashioned? This is something my children will absolutely be taught.
Sorry to rant, it's just been bugging me. I need to get a more exciting life I think 😂😂

Not, not old fashioned at all. It’s good manners to put your hand over your mouth and not let your germs hit other people.

When we cough or sneeze, germ droplets enter the air and cram spread the virus to others. By covering your mouth and noise it stops the spread of the germs.

The current recommendation is to cough or sneeze into your sleeve, somewhere near your elbow. This reduces the spread of germs. Hands transfer germs everywhere.

Maybe she'd had bugger all sleep?
Was there to receive a possibly life changing diagnosis?
Perhaps she was sitting there trying not to cry.
Maybe this child wasn't unwell but has asthma and so coughs?
It's a snapshot.
Just because this one time she didn't ask her child to cover their mouth doesn't mean she never does.