I totally agree with Barry. Norovirus is a horrible nasty thing. In the interest of patient safety there should be permanent restrictions in hospitals. It’s not just children, many adults’ personal hygiene is appalling……

I’ll tell a little story,
I witnessed somebody eject an almighty sneeze into their hands in a supermarket and then OPENED a cake enclosed in a SEALED carton to taste the icing with said same hand. Needless to say she didn’t like it, closed the lid and put it back on the shelf.

Can somebody answer me this?
Kids pick up and carry all sorts of stuff we all know this, yet they are allowed into hospitals as visitors….why?

When i was a kid you weren’t allowed into a hospital unless you were sick, you couldn’t visit. Given the amount of stuff kids can carry this seems to only make sense so why did it change?

I’ve visited some hospitals (Waterford Regional comes to mind) and there’s so many people with kids going in and out it feels like a shopping centre.