I've heard from a higher up that the beat cops in NYC all have been issued gas masks..be careful out there!
Unless the cops also have full on MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture) suits along with rubber booties and butyl rubber gloves AND have been trained to don them within 30 seconds, this is a worthless panacea designed to reassure rather than ensure survival. Have the cops been issued ATROPINE self injectors? This is meaningless.
I have been warning in print for well over ten years that this country, in the spring and summer months is RIPE for a chemical attack. But the nerve agent family, among the deadliest substances known to man uses multiple portals of entry into the body besides the lungs. This stuff can absorb thru the skin and in it's pure form you'll be just as dead in a little over 9 seconds. But that brief period of time will seem like hours as you barf up your lungs and your convulsions break your own bones in their utter violence. NASTY WAY TO DIE.
"I've heard from a higher up that the beat cops in NYC all have been issued gas masks..be careful out there!"
All the cops I see every day have gas masks on their utility belts. I keep mine in my backpack with a comfortable pair of hikers incase I have to hoof it out of the Big Bullseye (NYC).