60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

There was a period of a few decades (I guess still ongoing, really) where parents sheltered their kids from everything. Playing in the dirt, peanuts, other allergens. It seems like all it's done is make people more vulnerable as adults. People assume babies are super fragile and delicate, and in many ways they are, but they also bounce back quickly.

Maybe part of it is a consequence of the risks of honey, which can actually spawn camp infants with botulism. But it seems that fear spread to everything.

> There was a period of a few decades (I guess still ongoing, really) where parents sheltered their kids from everything

Not just parents sheltering kids. Take a look at this (in)famous tweet https://x.com/d_spiegel/status/1271696043739172864 from *June 2020* ...

"[eg] women aged 30–34, around 1 in 70,000 died from Covid over peak 9 weeks of epidemic. Over 80% pre-existing medical conditions, so if healthy less than 1 in 350,000, 1/4 of normal accidental risk"

The biggest reason I took covid19 seriously was because many countries in separate parts of the world took drastic measures, unlike nut allergy which is the poster child for first world problems.