What? You think that the average parent doesn't know the difference between their kid choking on something or going into anaphylactic shock? Really? Maybe you need to acquaint yourself with the symptoms of each because I have no idea how anyone could make such an absurd suggestion.
I do not see any source for your claim that 80% of food allergy deaths are caused by peanuts
Actually, it's 80%-90% of all deaths caused by food allergies each year are attributed to peanuts and tree nuts. Deaths due to peanut allergies account for only about 60% of those deaths.
but it truly is irrelevant
LOL! I can see how that information might be inconvenient for someone trying to convince us that, "Statistically speaking, the vast majority of parents who claim their children have peanut allergies are making it up," or that anaphylaxis is simply an act put forth by children as a "way for an otherwise unremarkable and uninteresting child to stand out." That's some serious BS you're serving up, but not surprising for someone who serves peanut butter and milk to kids with life threatening allergies to those things.
The basic facts will tell you that roughly 10 people die every year from peanut allergies.
The only basic fact I see in your post is that you don't do math very well. 150-200 people die every year from food allergies, and as I said before, 80%-90% of those happen from peanuts or tree nuts combined, while about 60% occur from peanuts. Of course, that says nothing about the thousands of people who end up in the emergency room each year because of food allergies. I'm sure all those people were overreacting as well. Too bad they didn't have you there to explain that they were simply suffering from some psychogenic illness....or maybe they were just trying to hack up a peanut they were choking on.....I still can't believe wrote that earlier and expect to be taken seriously.
I realize these numbers present a problem for your ranting against kids with food allergies, but they is what they is.
If I were to extrapolate from what I see online, I’d have to guess about 10% of all children have life-threatening peanut allergies.
You're good at making up "facts" and you're good at being derisive to people whose children may truly have to contend with life threatening allergies. Let's just hope that they don't do anything to inconvenience you while they try and avoid those things. That would be so.....inconvenient.
Putz.
Yes, I think the average parent doesn’t know the difference between choking (a very common occurrence) and anaphylactic shock (an extremely rare occurrence). People who are actually in anaphylactic shock often describe it as choking. Do you have any idea what the hell you’re even talking about? This isn’t a hard concept.
Please source your facts, by the way. The 150-200 number comes from an extrapolation of one single study of one single county in Minnesota coupled with a liberal helping of the author’s own bias (or alternately the author’s own complete disregard for the scientific method). The CDC documented only 13 deaths over a 10 year period from 1996-2006, six of which were adults. All had eaten peanuts, not simply been exposed. Again, facts vs. hysteria.
And you say “for someone who serves peanut butter and milk to kids with life-threatening allergies to those things.” You’re ignoring two very obvious facts - I wasn’t aware of the allergies and they in fact didn’t have them since they had no reaction whatsoever.
I should apologize to the five people in the world who do actually have life-threatening peanut allergies. Breaking out in hives is an incovenience, not a life-threatening reaction. People who overstate food sensitivities and people who completely fabricate allergies do a great disservice to the very, very few that actually HAVE those allergies.
Stick with me, kid. You might learn something.