Oh yeah, I never do that.
If I have errands after work, I pick up my kids and they come with me, or my husband will pick them up instead.
If I get off early, my kids get to come home early, too.
It sounds like my bigger boy at home is feeling a lot better, so hopefully it is one of those things that passes quickly and the baby doesn't get it. I doubt he will, he still has not learned that he has hands and rarely puts them in his mouth