This really grosses me out. Hospital floors are covered in millions upon millions of disease-causing germs, tracked all over from various rooms. These germs, while together on the floors, share mechanisms for resisting antibiotics and evading the immune system like suburban housewives trading recipes. ("You simply must tell me how you manage not to be killed by antibiotics!" "Of course! But only if you tell me how you manage to fool those immune cells so neatly!") Hospital staff don't observe the 5-second rule. If a piece of food falls below knee height, it's done.
If that weren't enough, hospital personnel clean those floors with very harsh chemicals in an attempt to keep the population down (yeah, right. Hospital germs would survive a disaster that killed all the cockroaches.). No eco-friendly, non-toxic stuff here. And it isn't rinsed off the floors, either. The longer it stays there, the longer it takes the population of germs to rebound.
So, a baby who crawls on that floor (then puts her hand in her mouth!! Ewwwww!!) is likely to either catch a horrible disease or be poisoned by chemical residue. Or both. Keep your kids off the bare floor!
