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mycatisminnie t1_j1quzkh wrote

Reply to comment by IamTalking in Anyone else has the flu? by Emergency-Candy1677

If someone is hacking and boogering all over the place they should not be in public. Or take a cough suppressant or something. I can’t believe the amount of people that walk around spewing their phlegm everywhere. If they really have to be out in public, at least give them a cough suppressant or decongestant. People are so f’ing gross.

I get it, sometimes you still have to be out and about. What I don’t get is why these people can’t do the polite thing and take some medicine to suppress their symptoms while they’re around others. Or suck on a cough drop so you don’t need to cough all over the place. Gross

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IamTalking t1_j1r81sl wrote

The polite thing is to not spread an illness, meaning staying out of school while in the contagiousness period. Expecting parents to give their kids cough suppressants, which are generally a horrible idea for little kids, just to be "polite" is very weird. Kids can have boogers for month on end, do you want parents to load them up with Sudafed daily just to be polite?

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bb5199 t1_j1rehhr wrote

Yeah, the boogers thing the person mentioned is stupid. Lots of kids have congestion or runny noses. They don't need to stay home for that.

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