Mom Demands School Go Peanut-Free For Allergic Child

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398. Do you support a ban on all peanut and tree nut products everywhere?

Not just in some schools, but throughout the country, all schools, all workplaces, public buildings, private homes, etc.?

If you don't, then you're also performing a balancing act between a degree of safety for children with these allergies and the size and the scope of the response that's justified for every marginal, theoretical decrease in the risk they face. You're just drawing a line at a different level of inconvenience and imposition on the many for the few, you aren't in a totally different realm of moral superiority.

As one poster pointed out, he/she couldn't even find any reports of any non-ingestive deaths of school children due to nut allergies -- cases where mere environmental exposure to someone else's food caused death. When people say peanut-free schools "work", they might "work" the same way wearing garlic prevents vampire attacks -- i.e., with or without the garlic, there wouldn't have been any vampire attacks anyway.

The ride to school on the bus, or participation in school sports, probably carry MUCH higher fatality risks than one kid dying because another kid sitting at another table eats a snack cake that might contain a little peanut oil. For some reason, however, the buses and the sports aren't being banned.