Here's my nuke "pill" ...
Posted on 03/16/2011 9:00:28 PM PDT by blam
Nuke Pills Top $200 Per Pack On Auction Sites; Prices up 1900% in Just a Few Days
Author: Mac Slavo
March 16th, 2011
As the effects of the nuclear disaster in Japan remain unclear, panicked US residents are doing whatever they can to get their hands on Potassium Iodide pills.
Distributors of the FDA recommended pills have run out of stock, with one manufacturer reporting that they sold some 250,000 individual packets in a single weekend.
As we reported in What Your Grocery Store Will Look Like In An Emergency, at the onset of a far-from-equilibrium event, the essentials go first. In Japan, food and especially water have become scarce.
The panic is spreading, and residents in the US, fearing a fallout cloud crossing the pacific and affecting Western states, are stocking up as well.
The top priority? Potassium Iodide – or nuke pills.
In recent days, the Surgeon General has advised concerned West Coast residents to get a hold of Potassium Iodide in the event of a radiation threat in the US.
The supply crunch and high demand has forced buyers to turn to the secondary market for acquiring the FDA recommended potassium iodide supplements, driving prices to upwards of $200 for a 14 dose packet. The suggested retail price offered by the supplier at NukePills.com is $10 per pack, indicating that demand has forced prices up as much as 1900% in just a few days.
(Click to the site to see the Ebay bids, etc)
Re-rread the article Fredd....the plume you speak of has not been determined to be real...rather what it might appear as and how it would travel.
You re read it.
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of THE radioactive plume(doesn’t say possible plume it says possible movement of it)from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aluetian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late friday.
New homebrew recipe of mine. I am labeling this batch “Poor Boy Chelation” !
Stay Safe !
I used to do iodinations with radioactive iodine and we took some plain iodine before doing them. I think it was probably just as protective.
Why is it if I restate what someone else printed, I’m running around with my hair on fire?
Sounds like you’re the one freaking out.
Here's my nuke "pill" ...
Oh so the people giving the information that I repeated, which is the United Nations, are not ‘scare mongers’ as you say, but I am...
LOL
Really it still stands, because it said it’s been removed...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks I needed that laugh.
That old bottle of iodine in my medicine cabinet ought to be worth hundreds of dollars!
Oh no! My hair started falling out in anticipation of THE PLUME.
Great choice. The Islay single malts are wonderful. Currently enjoying a bit of Laphroaig and I’m not experiencing any radiation effects whatsoever.
Dear Fredd,
don’t panic. There are three things that affectively dilute radioactive pollution such as this ‘plume’ — those are time, distance, and shielding.
Time and distance: the longer the ‘plume’ is out there flowing through the atmosphere the more it is thinned. Much of it will be indistinguishable from background (cosmic) radiation by the time it reaches the west coast and much of the radioactive particles will have fallen onto the ocean’s surface.
Distance is another aspect of this phenomenon. It is difficult for radiation itself to travel 5,000 miles.
In case you don’t know the terms, I will help you. To use an analogy: radioactive material is like dog poop and radiation would be like the stink of dog poop.
For example, Uranium 239 is an unstable element and is always trying to throw off one of its electrons; it is radioactive because it emits a particle of its atomic structure. That electron is the radiation that Uranium 239 produces as it becomes a ‘stable’ element (with an equal number of electrons). Radiation poisoning occurs by that atomic particle splitting a water molecule in our bodies, producing chemicals poisonous internally to us.
Now, as I’ve already discussed the effect time and distance has on radioactive materials and radiation, it is fairly obvious you have little to nothing to worry about per Japan. But I think you’re smart or you wouldn’t be on Free Republic so I’ll tell you what you should worry about.
I believe you’re wise to have those pills, if not for you but for your children. They’re the most vulnerable to breathing in or ingesting radioactive particles during a terrorist attack involving a dirty bomb. That is my biggest fear right now — I know the American public isn’t prepared for such an attack.
Adults only need a mask and goggles to keep out such particle. But children need more because their lungs and other organs are still growing. They need the iodine to protect their bodies.
Do you see where I’m coming from on this?
I worked in a nuclear plant for nearly eight years and my father’s been a licensed nuclear engineer since the early 1960s. You actually have little to be concerned about in the way of contamination from Japan.
HMMMMM
HAVE had mine for months. Joya got some more. Will likely be several times are needed.
However, Isn’t it only 2 weeks supposed to take it?
Then how long—if at risk, before should take again?
The gullibility and fearfulness of us Americans is disturbing. But hey, at least I coulda made a profit off the suckers. Like P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute."
Not just HUGH, but SERIES!!!
I’m setting my beeber to stune...
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