as for what I think institutions like prisons, hospitals, LTC should do? Just give celiac residents/inmates MREs then supplement with packaged snacks or things like bananas. Buy a special microwave that is dedicated to this or give them the microwave in their room.

"won't this scare restaurants off?"
Not necessarily. Regulation can create market certainty. I suspect many restaurants do avoid saying stuff is GF because they don't know liability this is creating for them or what measures are "enough"

Other criteria might include: you need to get GF claims from suppliers on high risk packaged products.
You'd be surprised how few restaurants offering "GF" fare actually do any of these super basic celiac safety things... because they're not really about accommodating us.

for packaged foods having quantitative standards makes sense since it's more homogenized and companies can afford to test to validate compliance.
For restaurants I think we just need protocols. Shared fryer? Flour in your kitchen? Can't mention GF or any adjacent nonsense like gluten friendly.

No Name (or even somewhat known) Kenyan runners getting popped don't get to tell those kind of stories. It's too bad because in a lot of those cases they're the victim to some extent... they might have some interesting things to say about certain managers and certain contractual agreements.

the Houlihan burrito debacle is such a prime example of this. Her team got out ahead of WADA with the burrito story. It didn't matter that if you actually read the decision it was quite clear that the proposed scenario was ~impossible because few sports fans will read that.

Racism and European exceptionalism aside, I think part of this is that we usually get to hear the athlete's side of the story in news media when they're from a rich western country since they likely can speak English well and can afford PR.

the absolute bending over backwards people will do to excuse athletes they perceive as being from "moral countries" (esp if they are white) is very funny, especially when people will actually celebrate non-white athletes from low resource countries getting popped lol.

Yeah I know a few people who've missed a test by being sloppy... that was a big wake-up call for them and they were a lot more diligent in the future!

what I think made this work out for me - the clinic stipulated that they would only take on patients within a certain postal code who didn't have a care provider. As such I was not competing with the masses of the Ottawa and surrounding area.

ironically as I was typing this my cat decided to (uncharacteristically) jump on the counter and put her mouth on the part of the faucet where the water comes out (her water bowl was empty).
Not related to this post but this is a great reason why I insist on no gluten ingredient cat food lol.

Now I'm not necessarily saying you should ignore this instruction, but I think you can see that it would be pretty easy to mitigate this issue with gloves or handwashing. And yet, we go full precautionary principle and say that the pregnant should not be cleaning out a cat's litter box period.

example: cat litter boxes are something to avoid due to risk of toxoplasmosis (parasite), which can impact the fetus.
But if you think about it, there are several things that have to align:
- cat has to be infected (eating prey)
- you have to get a cyst under your nails
- not wash your hands + eat

anyways "wow this food is bland, depressing, and nutritionally sub-optimal" is a complaint of privilege in a way that many don't think about
when I travel that's often how I'm living (gas station chips) and while that's no prison camp if the prison camp meal is depressing you that bad, trial celiac

certainly this would be the case for many disabled people, but I think it's worth highlighting since many with celiac don't consider themselves disabled... dude... it's just because you're currently being accommodated. That can go away real quick.

this is a joke because I cope with dark humour but I know that the difference between me getting taken out back behind a shed vs being someone deemed physically capable (who might survive such a situation) is the food they'd make us eat

if you were told "get vaccine to end pandemic," you got your 2 doses, then still got whacked 6 months later with covid in the Omicron wave and aren't an especially online science person, you can imagine how devastating this could be to one's POV on the importance of vaccines for preventing disease

I think until public health grapples with the communication errors, particularly as relates to airborne spread and the non-sterilizing nature of the vaccines, many people will continue to be apathetic (not bother getting routine vaccines, not care about going to work sick etc.).