They finally invented a retard magnet!!!!!

[Mooncake]

We have two elderly, senile pets that are always shitting/pissing/puking everywhere -- which is a joy, I'll tell you. BUT, I think it's probably been good for my two little monsters. They don't seem to be allergic to much, except they inherited my (mostly ocular) pollen allergy. Sometimes genetics is stronger than early antigen presentation. They aren't always covered in dirt like some of the little feral beasts that run around with boogers and soot caked under their finger nails and they get regular baths, but our home is nowhere near the sterile, hospital environments I see in other people's homes.

I lived in fear of the dreaded peanut allergy since my oldest friend from growing up, who had kids a decade before I did, has two 'peanut kids' as he calls them. Whenever we go backpacking he lives on Snickers bars since he can't have them around the rest of the year lol. He and his wife are just normal folks, though, suburban yes but not overt clean freaks or anything. I think sometimes it just happens. Luckily, my kids could eat a whole jar of PB if I let them haha.

I'm the first one to call bullshit when Dan wants to be called Helen now and gets pissed if you fuck it up and all the other libtard nonsense, but I think this is just a nice way to let kids afflicted with something that is no fault of theirs in on the fun of trick-or-treat. If my five year old couldn't run around the neighborhood with his friends in a costume it would make him very sad, which would in turn break my heart so I think this is a rare case where the Bear Pit's derision is misdirected.

It's a first world problem to be sure, but that doesn't mean you cant empathize. They're kids for shit sake.

 

[fx77]

There is a very good case to be made (and several of you posted this above) that much of the allergan and health BS... comes from helicopter parents who are so terrified that their special little spawn will be exposed to something bad....

That they never get exposed to anything.

If a youngster gets exposed to peanuts very young... the allergy does not develop. If parents are so %$#king paranoid that their little precious spawn will have a peanut allergy that they never let the little retard have peanuts... well, then the legume tolerance never gets built up and the little 'tard has a peanut allergy.

Kids should grow up on farms, eat dirt, catch frogs, lick toads, pet cats, play in sandboxes, swim in ponds, get cow s%$t on them, fall down, get cut, eat grass, play Russian Roulette.... you name it. In the name of becoming strong men.

These little a$$ pirates who live in suburbia with a mommy who feeds them Purel three meals a day... are going to grow up... no just sucking di$#s, but allergic to everything.

I get the fact that there are a tiny percentage of kids who really do have an allergy or a reaction. Odds dictate that some percentage is just wired in such a way as to react the wrong way to anything from Bulger Wheat to Suede Yoga pants... It's just in the odds.

But most of these special little 'tards are either a construct of their idiot parents neuroses... or they are created as allergic's... by the fact that mommy and daddy kept them in a gerbil bubble and fed them antibiotics instead of an outdoor life.

No sympathy. Darwinism works. If you can't manage to survive a bit of dirt... ash-heap of reproduction for you and your spawn.

Cheers,

Sirhr

Growing up every single kid ate peanutbutter from the moment they could chew...No one ever had any peanut allergy..Now I am supposed to believe that in 2 generations a gene has multiplied and caused this phenomenon? Not Darwinian likely.
Just feed your kid allergens from the time that they can eat..let them play in the mud and dirt, eat bugs, and mudpies...

 

[ZEROGUY]

Trying to weigh what’s more retarded:

-People with food allergies voluntarily painting their jack o lanterns blue to indicate they’re not giving away candies with allergens

Or

-Grown men outraged over people voluntarily painting pumpkins blue.

Just making an observation. Flame suit on.

 

[spaniel]

There are multiple well-done studies showing a strong negative correlation between kids with allergies and kids who live in homes with pets who go outdoors. In other words, it's impossible to keep a sterile house if you have a dog tracking things in each day so that exposure is probably enough to keep kids from developing allergies.

I grew up in a rural area on a farm around a bunch of other farm kids....I can't say allergies were non-existent but they were rare, and I never heard of peanut allergy until I went to college.

 

[spaniel]

This has been going on with generics for the last 7-8 years and it drives us nuts (pun intended). I thought it was at it's worst a couple of years ago when we couldn't even get 0.9% Saline (I mean, it's just salt and water!), but they have since managed to top even that. Recently we had trouble getting Sterile Water For Injection. It's just water... What the???

The issue is that, compared to most things, drugs are really expensive to manufacture due to all the regulation and sterility/QC concerns. Particularly injectibles. So when things go generic and the profit margin decreases, you often get to the point where any competition makes it unprofitable so you end up with one maker sitting at a point where they can make some money, but not enough to make it possible for one more competitor to come in and try to split it and create downward pricing pressure.

I wont name names but there have been several instances in recent years, particularly with cancer drugs, where production issues at the ONE place making the drug has led to a stoppage in production and a problematic shortage on the market.

 

[vh20]

The issue is that, compared to most things, drugs are really expensive to manufacture due to all the regulation and sterility/QC concerns. Particularly injectibles. So when things go generic and the profit margin decreases, you often get to the point where any competition makes it unprofitable so you end up with one maker sitting at a point where they can make some money, but not enough to make it possible for one more competitor to come in and try to split it and create downward pricing pressure.

I wont name names but there have been several instances in recent years, particularly with cancer drugs, where production issues at the ONE place making the drug has led to a stoppage in production and a problematic shortage on the market.

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This is precisely correct. It's just so retarded I didn't include it in my previous post. As long as there are two or three manufacturers of a generic, it will be dirt cheap. But if two of them have production issues at the same time, the lone survivor will invariably stick it to the market in a huge way. We saw Doxycycline 100mg tablets, 500 ct. bottle go from about 50.00 to almost 2000.00/bottle several years ago, and almost overnight.

 

[ArmyJerry]

he said gourd

Teal pumpkins? Maybe teal gourds?






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