[LMB] OT: if civilization fell

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Francis Turner" <francis.turner at gmail.com>


>I had personally never heard of nut allergies until the late 1990s.
> I'm sure there were people who had them before but they must have been
> extremely uncommon. The same - for that matter - goes for all sorts of
> other allergy issues. I could well imagine that something to do with
> modern post-industrial life is making it more likely that our immune
> system fail and ISTR that people have claimed that the problem is that
> we tend to keep places too clean and hygenic so that our immune system
> doesn't get the regular workout it needs to remain in tip-top order.
>

maybe it does have something to do with modern life.

for instnace, my nephew's air pipe swelled up after he ate some spelt bread. 
instead of 'poor kid, choked on some bread, had his whole life in front of 
him',  his paretns used his epi-pen (had it since they discovered his peanut 
allergy) and rushed him to the hospital.  without modern meds, he would not 
be a kid growing up with allergies.  he would just be a kid not growing up.

i like this version better, i really do.

ziviya, getting creeped out by this whole thread and hoping hte great 
outdoors stays firmly on the other side of my window.  i *like* mod-cons.