Our adult children in their late 40’s-50’s. Learned this in elementary school.
My wife was a head office RN for a busy FP practice. During the cold and flu season, they had signs showing how to cough in your elbow.
She and the nurses working under her would show the patients how to cough into their elbows while in the office or exam rooms. This was decades ago. Hands/fingers are a primary microbe spreader for humans even ahead of sneezing and coughing in the open.
“Our adult children in their late 40’s-50’s. Learned this in elementary school.”
Interesting. I’m 63, so would have been only a few years ahead of your eldest, but we were never taught that in school.
It’s a simple thing, though, and does make sense. I suppose the practice has spread over the last 40 years.