"Perhaps people with these bizarre allergies all died off as babies or infants in prior generations..."
There's nothing bizarre at all about food allergies. They've been around for centuries, although it does appear they are more common now. In the case of my situation (celiac sprue), I probably indeed would have died not too many years ago. Heck, I almost died three years ago.
"but now that medicine has gotten better they live and expect the whole world to drop everything to accomodate them."
Maybe some adults are that way but I don't think younger kids expect anything more than to be able to do "normal" stuff as much as possible.
I guess it would be more convenient for people without these problems if the ones with the problems just started dying again.
Good comment. I think the kids would learn a LOT more if they were told that "you need to wash your hands carefully before you can play with Johnnie" due to the peanut dust, then to be told "you can't have Peanut Butter because of Johnnie". Guess where the resentment gets directed???
I guess it would be more convenient for people without these problems if the ones with the problems just started dying again.
You HAD to blow a well-reasoned comment with crap like this, didn't you?
It would be more convenient of the onus was placed on the individual with the allergy to protect him/her self, and to ask the community for support. What is going on here is the onus in placed on the community to make sure nobody ever gets near the kid with a PB&J sandwich. For example, I am allergic to a lot of things. I don't think any of them are life threatening, although shellfish might be if it were to get worse the next time. I make a point of avoiding shellfish, and people around me know not to put it in the fofod that they serve me. However, I don't demand that everywhere I go that nobody else is allowed to eat shellfish.