re: 4 SEC schools scheduling visits with controversial recruit

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That was in response to someone saying it doesn’t seem like people ever actually die from peanut allergies, which is obviously not true.

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That was me. I said I seem to never see a news article about someone dying from a peanut allergy.



I figured out why I seem to never hear about people dying from peanut allergies. It is because it is so rare. In the U.S., a country of 331 million people, 150 people a year die from all food allergies combined. People in the U.S. have a 0.000045% chance of dying from a food allergy this year. That is from the USDA December 2023. That is why it is so rare to see a story about people dying from peanut allergies.

Like I said before, it sucks for people that have peanut allergies. But among things that are going to kill someone, it is down there with bees, dogs, and lightning.

And before anyone accuses me (again) of not believing in peanut allergies, I totally do believe they exist. I just don’t consider it the deadly killer that some, like the “he should be arrested for attempted murder” people in this thread, make it out to be.