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.
Here in Germany the whole preparedness thing is characterized by schizophrenia.
Preppers did it first. Because they tend to be conservative our media ran hit piece after hit piece; portraying them as crazy extremist Nazi-adjacent conspiracy theorists.
Then Corona happened and food shortages made the government go "hmm, maybe we should dust off those old guidelines?".
They're still trying to downplay potential energy and food shortages because they cannot possibly admit that those evil right-wingers might have had a point but they're not laughing quite as loudly anymore.
I saw a post on one of the normie platforms over the weekend looking for information on local bomb shelters--in Texas of all places. Because you know the 50+ years of cold war tensions didn't lead to nuclear apocalypse, but little old Ukraine is worth nuking the world over.
To be fair, this situation is incredibly similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis, only the reverse, with NATO encroaching on Russia's borders.
Many people forget part of the Cuban Missile Crisis concerned US missiles stationed in Turkey and Italy, before Russia decided to put missiles in Cuba. I'd really like to not go back to the cold war.
The cold war didn't affect the personal bank accounts and dirty laundry of corrupt politicians in the West. Ukraine does.
I remember all the shelters in the schools I've gone to.
Out of 4 schools, two were turned into overflow classrooms and two into storage.
I've seen the over pressure system in one, and it looked fucked. While the law says they have to be able to return to shelter in 48 hours, I sincerely doubt any of them could be. And to what degree anyone knew how to run them.
I think my elementary school had some sort of shelter. It would have been totally useless for more than a couple dozen kids though, it was closet-sized. IIRC that school was built in the 50s. I don't shelters at schools are much of a thing (and certainly not a law) in the US.
my old middle school had signs that pointed to a shelter under the basement, but i don't know what kind of shape it's in. or even how to get to it. they never took us while i was there.
Here in Norway it was required by law in all public buildings until it relaxed in the mid-90s, but it is still a legal requirement.
gotta nuke the planet to protect the massive globalist fuckfest in ukraine.
Bring back "duck and cover."
Virgin bunker prepper vs Chad duck and cover under the desk
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.