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Children are touching each other (non sexually) and getting saliva everywhere before touching their eyes, sucking their fingers, and touching others. Not to mention fecal mater and urine if they’re not washing their hands.
Children are little grimy gremlins.
“Intimate contact” is usually said since that has an extremely high chance of spreading the disease due to the proximity of participants and swapping of bodily fluids.
It still has to get passed to a child somehow before the children can pass it to each other. There's at least some primary infection going from adults to children. Also notable, parents don't even know where they're picking up their infections - that implies infection from either surfaces or air.
Apparently pets can spread the disease, as well. And the truth is that no (or almost no) adults are that "clean and pristine" anyways, we're grimy creatures despite how much we may try to dissociate ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom.
And that's without getting into how horrible the basic hygiene of many people is. All humans piss, shit, eat, sometimes get food on their hands or intentionally and purposefully eat with them, most people dig their nose, or rub their face, or touch their eyes, or scratch their ass, etc. Anyone who says they never do any of the above is a liar; maybe they're more hygienic about it as is sensible and wash their hands after, but it's a fact of life.