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.
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.