• @[email protected]
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    261 year ago

    It’s because all the freedom they have.

    But seriously, they have some crazy allergies there. No idea why, probably because of all the artificial food and contamination in general. It’s just not a very healthy place to live.

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      351 year ago

      Do you know if they’ve tried… shooting the allergies?

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      If you’re in Europe, we’ll I’ve got news for you, 2/3rds of European schools have at least one child with an anaphylactic peanut allergy. So peanut allergies are not just from excess freedom it would seem.

      https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200528005252/en/Largest-European-Quantitative-Study-on-Peanut-Allergy-Confirms-Significant-Need-Burden-and-Psychosocial-Impact-of-Peanut-Allergy-on-Allergic-Individuals-and-their-Caregivers

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          /shrug

          I think it’s mostly people in the thread are over exaggerating how common it actually is to ban them for a humorous effect. Maybe overly litigious society, schools don’t want to be sued because some dumb bully throws a peanut at a kid who can die from it. Peanut bans are becoming a thing in Europe though. A quick googling will show that. I found a proposal in European parliament. Here’s the BBC talking about banning them on all public transport:

          https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41017657

          That seems a bit aggressive to me.

          But all that aside, the increasing allergies across the industrialized world is really interesting though, and not a United States specific thing. A lot probably has to do with eradication of parasites. Much of the immune system parts responsible for allergies don’t have any role in response to bacteria or virus, but are intended to fight off parasites. And this is a gross over simplification, but the basics are without any parasites to fight off (since they’ve been eradicated in the industrialized world) it gets dysregulated and starts reacting to benign targets.