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.