For all but the worst radiation...
Posted on 11/16/2004 6:43:26 PM PST by Right in Wisconsin
Will someone answer some questions?
http://www.dhss.state.mo.us/RadProtection/DirtyBombs.html
Because no one answered me.
Do you live in a city, suburb, or rural area?
Google is your friend.
I believe it's a newbie learning their way around here.
Posting history is not trollish.
Potasium Iodide only works fo cesium and other stuff from a nuke explosion, not a dirty bomb.
Dirty Bomb is just uranium or other stuff, I doubt we will see a plutonium bomb
You're asking about a dirty bomb which tends to indicate an expolosion that scatters radioactive waste. That's a different type of WMD than a cropduster, which tends to indicate a chemical or biological weapon.
So, aside from doing absolutely nothing helpful for you in the case of anything other than radioiodine, there is a slight chance of an adverse allergic reaction, just as there is for any dietary supplement. I think the statistics are an average of 1 person in 2 million, or maybe its two people in a million, but you get the general sense from those numbers. Thus, for the case of a large population that panics and starts gulping down KI tablets because they heard "there's a 'dirty bomb' going off", probably the reaction to the KI is going to present more of a hazard.
Probably no one knew the answer? I would just go to the Homeland Security website, they should have the answer or at least links to sites with more information.
Move to the country. Whatever they do will be targeted to a high population density area. You can't have a body count without bodies.
Will someone answer some questions?
You've come to the right place, friend. It's a good question and I think I can help you with that.
You hit the terrorists where they work and live and plan and recruit. You hit their money and their supplies and their bases. You chase them all over the world, hitting the in several different places at once, using several different methods at once. You hit them with military forces and intelligence forces and law enforcement. You hit them again and again until they can't plan or adapt, and what energy they have is directed solely to the preservation of their sorry backsides.
In short, you don't wait around to get hit -- you hit them first.
And most importantly, you support candidates who understand this.
Thank you for being so helpful and understanding my concern.
Potasium iodide tablets will only protect you from getting thyroid cancer. It will not protect you from any other cancer nor will it protect you from radiation poisoning itself.
Get yourself a Nuclear Biological and Chemical (NBC) suit that
comes with booties and gask mask to include hood. :)
A crop duster won't do much. How in the hell would someone get that much weaponized agent into the country. In a pinch make your own gas mask with activated charcoal. You can reuse it by putting it in the oven.
I would pray...because you seem really worried about it. Then I would rest easy because our guys are kicking jihadi ass all over the world right now.
For all but the worst radiation...
If I can't out run it then I will breathe deep and and ask for forgiveness with a smile on my face.
Good luck.....
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