I have a life-threatening nanny state allergy (other's lives-not mine).
What is that?
A friend of mine's child's "peanut" allergy was cured by letting the child crawl around the house and yard, then "reintroducing" her to peanuts at a very early age.
We don't even know how many acute or long-term illnesses may be caused by over-protective parents, antibacterial this and that, "organic" foods, an enforced low-fat or vegetarian lifestyle, or even what used to be common exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
or even (lack of) what used to be common exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
And we are not over-protective of my son. He has always played in, and around, dirt. If we, or his Johns Hopkins doctors, thought that exposure to more dirt would cure his allergies and asthma, then we would do that (but that is not the case). I do think that there is an environmental component to this issue but it is uninformed to completely ignore the genetic one.
Again, it is ignorant to assume that all allergies are the same and can be handled the same.
A Life-threatening peanut allergy is real, as I have experienced (and as medical studies document). Your calling it "imaginary", and then claiming the "more exposure to dirt" cure-all is ignorant and ridiculous.
I hate the notion of the nanny state (and we aren't vegetarians, clean freaks, or liberal in any way) as much as you do...but your response to this allergy is foolish.
My kid is getting a compound bow for Christmas...I'll have him use a copy of your "imaginary ailments" post as a target.