Silver spoons go back millennia for a very good reason. Its documented from the middle ages in Europe that the wealthy gave silver spoons to their infants and toddlers to gnaw on, always bigger than the child could swallow, no choking issues.
According to our National institute of Health… silver kills over 800 kinds of nasty bacteria. There is strong anecdotal evidence it kills viruses as well.
The children of the rich in the middle ages had a far lower mortality rate than poor children because of silver spoons. This was a known fact in historical records. Born with a silver spoon in your mouth is still a derogatory term for the rich used by the poor.
In ancient china the rich used silver chop sticks… no joke! Ancient peoples didn't know why silver worked, they just knew it did.