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Moon Dust (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think if anything they would be biased towards having fewer allergies than normal people. Which suggests that 0.21% (1 in 500) is a reasonable bound for how rare a moon dust allergy could be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never really verified it but I think allergies are more common in developed countries. If that's true, that the data is skewed in the opposite direction

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Probably more commonly identified