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.
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.