I usually fly Southwest. In recent years I had noticed that sometimes we did not get peanuts, but only pretzels or some other snack. This summer, on a flight it happened again and I asked the attendant if they had run out of peanuts, and they told me that someone on the flight was allergic, so they weren’t serving them to anyone.
I’m sorry your kid is defective. It’s not my problem. First peanuts, then dairy, then scented soap, then wool or cotton or polyester, then meat...
It doesn’t stop.
I guarantee peanuts will follow the exact same path to banning if there is no pushback.
I am calling for complete civil disobedience on this. Buy a big jar of any kid of peanuts crunch a mouthful and put out a peanut-breath plasma all around your seating area.
My, aren’t we becoming a genetic freak show.
Sure, a person can fly in a plane if he’s black and infected with full blown Ebola but if he’s got a bag of peanuts he gets tossed from the plane?
>> Lianne Mandelbaum, who says she was practically kicked off a United Airlines flight last year because of her son’s condition, has been lobbying for new protections for allergy sufferers.
Drive your fragile spawn where they need to go in your automobile.
Then keep your damned automobile peanut-free, if that’s your preference.
I am beyond fed up with militant asswipes forcing their “rights” down our throats.
A new victim group!
I’m not sure about the merits of this lady’s petition, but I can vouch that peanut allergies can be astonishingly dangerous, and are not to be trifled with. My wife was babysitting some children, including a two-year-old boy with peanut allergies. She had been told that he was allergic to peanuts, but was also told that his allergy was not thought to be very severe. She tried to be careful not to ever give him anything with peanuts, but one time, while serving peanut butter sandwiches to the other kids, she absentmindedly gave him a peanut butter sandwich as well. Soon after he took only one bite, he came down with symptoms of severe anaphylaxis, which brought him close to death. At the ER, he was not very responsive to the first administration of epinephrine, and was then given the maximum allowable dose; even with that, he barely made it.
But our politicians are cool with flying foreign ebola carriers around on commercial planes.
About an hour ago I opened a bag of un-shelled peanuts in my cubicle. After eating a few dozen I emailed my colleagues in the same room as a precaution in case any of them were deathly allergic to them. Bass-ackwards on my part. Turns out none of them are allergic, and all of them wonder how it is we never heard of peanut allergies until after the Jimmy Carter days.
It doesn't say anything about someone sitting across the aisle. What about when he has to go to the potty? Is she going to make an announcement to the entire plane and wrap him in a blanket so he's protected all the way to the back of the plane? Is the recirculated air going to somehow magically be kept from the buffer zone? That's like announcing you have to have a buffer zone from underwear bombers, crying babies, liberals, stinky people, anyone infected with anything from the sniffles to HIV and ebola, gays, black/white/purple people, muslims, old people, and most especially short people with their little hands and little eyes and tiny little teeth. Sorry, crazy mama, but I you don't want him to die then don't fly or charter your own extra special peanut free plane.
They have a right and a responsibility to protect their child. That means they should not board an airplane with their son if his allergies are bad enough to require these measures. Would they really risk their child's life on the good faith of someone 2-3 rows away who might whip out a pb&j sandwich, a baggie of trail mix, or a pack of chips cooked in peanut oil, whether that passenger ignores their request out of hunger, ignorance, forgetfulness, or indifference? Whether the airlines are being more responsible than the parents because the flight attendants care more about children than these parents or out of fear of a lawsuit, the fact is that the airlines have the correct answer and these parents should listen to the professionals.
“Hey I have a severe allergy and might die, could you refrain from eating peanuts for an hour or two, please?”
“F$*$ you!”
Yes, this is FReeper civility.
Everyone ELSE must change so as to accommodate MEEEEEEEEEE!
They may as well do it complete the goal of making flying a living hell.
Soon, the entire United States will be one giant ‘Common Sense-Free Zone’.
See? They've already been given the best possible advice regarding their dilemma.
How about “liberal free” zones ...everywhere!
How about LIB free zone?
I hate flying.