One afternoon with friend's baby and now I've got pink eye

Just that really. My friend brought her baby round a couple of days ago. When she mentioned the kid had just started nursery, I literally thought "oh

here we go, watch me go down with some dreadful illness in the next week." Turns out week 1 the kid comes home with conjunctivitis and gives it to the mother. the pair of them have it, but didn't mention it before arriving. Now I've got it. i feel like I've got gravel in my eye.

Why are babies such disease-ridden little vectors?! And why do people think a baby being sick is any less contagious than an adult, or any less annoying to catch an illness from?

One of the main benefits of being child free is not having to get sick every 5 minutes, I wish parents would not take that benefit away by bringing sick kids out and about. Ffs keep them at home!!!