Re: ping Anim

On 2025-05-04 11:44 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I just read this and inevitably thought of you:
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpvzrjjdzo
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It's an amazing result! I realize that your peanut allergy is far from
your only health issue but even jut fixing one problem ought to make
your life a little easier....
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 That’s interesting, thanks. I see some serious flaws in the methodology and
I’m sure it’s too late for me.

I'm sorry to hear that. Still, this may prove to be a way to address the problem successfully in younger generations.

 I disagree that most serious reactions are mistakes. In my experience, most
serious reactions are intentional from people that are too stupid or
uncaring and deliberately give peanut allergic people peanuts like the
psychotics at Chick-fil-A.  People everywhere just don’t believe you’re
allergic and dose you to prove to you that you’re wrong.
 

I don't know what to say to that. I don't want to think people are that callous but it's not that hard to think they are simply careless and clueless. I remember the first time I heard about schools that banned peanut butter sandwiches for lunch or snacks because of the possibility that someone who'd had one could simply breathe on someone with a peanut allergy and make them very sick or even kill them. I simply found this impossible to believe because I'd never heard of this kind of anaphylactic shock. But then it turned out to be true.

I’d also want to know what they do about people that are allergic to
peanuts airborne. I don’t have to eat the damn stuff.
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Good question.

Most interesting to me was the fact that he has to eat peanuts and he hates
peanuts. I always wondered if I hated peanuts just because I knew they’d
make me sick.
 

The one fact would seem to lead to the other, at least intuitively. But human psychology is full of twists and turns so I'd hate to make a categorical assumption because someone is bound to come along and disprove it.
I remember a woman I knew at the co-op who had 200-odd allergies, including to cats, but she loved cats and had at least one as I recall. She loved the cat(s) even more than she hated the symptoms she had as a result of them being around her.
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Rhino