I just can’t understand your thinking.
What you want to do is turn the world upside down for the sake of one child.
I KNOW people with peanut allergies. They take care of themselves just fine. The scenario you paint is extremely extreme and a complete red herring.
If I know I have an ailment, I take care of myself. I don’t demand that everyone else be put through a wringer for my sake.
This nonsense of re-arranging the whole environment to satisfy the whining of ONE KID is stupidity in the purest form.
Do you expect the same of a four or five year old? Well, of course: surely they have the competence and judgment as you in ensuring their safety around potentially deadly items. I mean, what child eats things that he isn't supposed to?
The scenario you paint is extremely extreme and a complete red herring.
Although you may say so, the fact of the matter is that peanut allergies account for the vast, vast majority of allergy deaths each year.
I too know of ONE person and they take care of themselves just fine.
I think this is a result of a few hysterical mothers. Who want to be SUPERmaternal as the pose for the world. “LOOK AT ME, I care more about my child than you care for your child. LOOK LOOK LOOK!!!!”
“Caroline’s United Airlines flight was forced to land early so she could be whisked to an emergency room. The release of peanut dust into the cabin from several hundred open peanut bags apparently set off her reaction. A Mayo Clinic study suggests the situation was not unusual. Researchers found quantities of peanut allergens in the ventilation systems of several commercial airplanes. Some airlines, like Northwest and Southwest, say they’ll pull peanuts in flights with allergic passengers, but Caroline’s parents say when they asked United to do that on a subsequent flight, the airline said no.”
— http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec97/peanut_12-19.html