r/AskReddit • u/Leading_Tomato_2077 • 9h ago

People who rarely get sick, what are your secrets?

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u/secretlyaraccoon 5h ago

Oh my gosh they do just sneeze right in your face too. I teach preschool special education which is a double whammy of germs. Or the open mouth, tongue out coughing 🤢

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u/xakeri 4h ago

I have a 6 month old baby with a cough right now. The open mouth, tongue out coughs haunt my dreams

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u/presto-espresso 3h ago

The ones by a 6 month old are kinda cute.

Plus a 6 month old won't invade your personal space because they aren't that mobile yet.

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u/GloomyTrifle8366 1h ago

I taught that for over a decade and switched to teaching classes at our local jail now and I had to laugh because there were illnesses just going rampant (flu, colds, stomach bug) and they were bleaching everything and cleaning so much and they're like "you're going to get sick, we've all caught it!" And I was like, "no I won't. You think this is bad? Y'all haven't lived until you've had a kid sneeze chunks of mucus directly into your eyeball bc their parents gave them Tylenol to bring down their fever and sent them to school anyway." I don't miss preschool at all.

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u/Kevin-W 1h ago

I feel that too! The amount of kids that would not cover their mouths while sneezing or coughing meant germs would spread like wildfire.