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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Granted. Your hyperactive immune system shuts down completely, thus preventing allergic reactions. You are now high-risk for every disease ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Done in one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Granted. Every species that causes you to have an allergic reaction has now ceased to exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm fine with this.

Get fucked dust mites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Granted. You now have no eyes, nose or mouth to experience allergies via. Your face becomes a featureless expanse of skin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Skin contact can trigger allergies. It's the mechanism behind poison ivy rashes, for example. Some people are "immune" because the chemical doesn't make their body attack itself.

This can actually trigger on subdermal tissues as well so if you follow this logic of removing exposure vectors it'd just strip all the flesh from your bones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Huh. Yeah, of course. I feel like I knew that in some corner of my brain but it didn't click.

That solution is still very monkey's paw though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Granted, you no longer has YOUR allergies... you've now got everyone's else allergies instead.