So in the new round of fearmongering, Norway has seen a run on pharmacies, and people have been buying up all the iodine pills.
Now in peoples defense, our department for emergency preparedness has been encouraging "prepping" for years, including keeping iodine pills at home. Success of which has been piss-poor.
But now today ive seen two people on twitter reporting that schools and kindergartens are being told to inform their counties of student numbers, and inform parents of the existing program of iodine tablets for children in case of emergency.
People who lived through the cold war are baffled and even they who lived with MAD and through Chernobyl cant understand this over-night paranoia seemingly being fueled by the government.
Iodine Tablets?
Why are they stockpiling literal poison?
Potassium Iodine. Is used to protect the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine.
And they put iodine in table salt to help stave off thyroid disease, and you're given the pills if you are having endocrine issues. Yes, your body actually needs trace amounts of it.
Small doses of poison to stop bigger poison. Potassium-Iodine to prevent your body from binding with the radioactive compounds.
In areas with nuclear reactors, it is customary to have enough pills for your entire household as a standard on-hand measure, has been for decades. Areas WITHOUT nuclear reactors... If that bomb is hitting, I think immediate airborne trace dust radiation is the least of your concerns.
I live three miles from a nuclear plant and as far as I know no one keep iodine pills. Maybe it's a little dumb not to but a meltdown is pretty low on my list of worries.
We always figured the Soviets would get us before Fermi II did.