@LadyMarissa From what you wrote, the elbow does very little to stop the droplets. They did away with sneezing and coughing into your hand because people are idiots, and for some reason don’t understand that cold and flu is spread on surfaces and don’t care that they get others sick.
I know if I sneeze in my hand my hand is now full of germs, and I do give a damn if I get others sick, and I’ve known since I was a little girl that germs spread on surfaces.
I’m not arguing about the tissue being best, I’m just saying we don’t always have a tissue handy.
I cough and sneeze in my elbow and turn away from people usually. I will literally walk away and turn if I have enough warning that I’m going to sneeze or cough. Like I said, I dosed myself up with cough medicine, and I don’t like taking medicine, to not cough when with people right now.
It’s allergy season where I live right now. Those allergy people are at more risk I think. They are touching their eyes and nose a lot probably. I think that’s why allergy people get change of season colds. I also think cold and flu season is mostly because cold weather makes your nose run and eyes dry and so we are touching and rubbing.