As much as I hate airplane peanuts, this is ridiculous. And I know it's an overly pulled card, but it's also communism (the worse face of communism at that).
You can stop there. Seriously. I can tell you right now that you have
absolutely no fucking idea what "Communism" even means, if you think it's that. Just. Seriously. Don't go there. You're wrong, and it's disingenuous.
If one or two people are allergic to peanuts, we ALL can't have peanuts. What the hell happened to majority rule?
Holy shit, that's how you think things
actually work? "Majority rule" has never been the case in the US under almost all circumstances, and rarely is anywhere else. And there's a good reason for that: The rights of minorities have to be protected as well. If you don't think this is true, you have some severely fucked-up ideas about how politics works, and need to read up.
And it's not about "one or two people". Peanut allergy is right up there as one of the most common food allergies, if not the most common.
Well, there are some people who can die due to exposure to peanuts. An airplane is bad since it's miles from anywhere, and the air is constantly recycled along with any traces of peanuts. I don't see how there's any element of communism here - it's aimed to prevent serious allergic attacks or death.
Any government regulation is Communism. Didn't you get that memo? It's filed under "GODDAMN TERRORISTS", under "M" for "Misinformation".
The problem is, as the article points out, that airplanes are closed systems. Any peanut dust that gets in the air stays in the air. I guess they could find a way to filter it out, though. Still, I think this is mostly just a mother suffering from Precious Fragile Snowflake Syndrome. I get the feeling that this kid will grow up wearing armor whenever he goes outside and being given the latest trend of fake medicine. I might be wrong, but her comments mach the profile of a overprotective mother.
She could easily be one of those types, yeah, but it's not really relevant since it's not her anybody is trying to judge here.
Filtration is a good idea, but it's not as easy as it sounds, especially not for very fine-particle stuff, like say, peanut oil (which isn't even really particulate).
And how hard is it to carry the treatment for an allergy that you fear is around you in huge, roaming clouds of death? On yourself or on the airplane? You don't need an EMT crew and a heart surgeon to effectively treat an allergic reaction. You need something the size of a pencil or smaller.
To treat it for how long? The person is still in the presence of allergens, so any treatment would need to not only function for potentially many, many hours, but also continue to do so in the face of continued exposure to the allergen.