Posted on 09/14/2005 3:25:08 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
If President George W. Bush thought appointment of new Federal Emergency Management Agency director David Paulison would end criticism of the agency’s questionable leadership he could find that thought buried under a mountain of duct tape.
Many career FEMA professionals consider Paulison a laughing stock because of his role in the “great duct tape controversy” of 2003.
It was then that Paulison, as director of FEMA’s preparedness division, recommended that Americans stock up on “plastic sheeting and duct tape” to prepare themselves for a possible biological, chemical or nuclear attack by terrorists.
This was too good to pass up....
Hell, even I couldn't top the comedy of that guy's ridiculous duct-tape recommendations back then...
It's like the color coding system. You get something that makes sense and then everyone ridicules it. Don't the Israelis seal up their homes when a chemical attack is possible? What else is going to protect the civilian population? I'm reminded of a Barnacle Bill the Sailor lyric: "I'll open my *** and suck up the gas, said Barnacle Bill the Sailor!"
I'm not sure if the writer cited here pointed this out first. One of the resident commie pinko loon bloggers featured in the People's Detroit News, Bonnie Bucqueroux, was cited for this in that paper today. Probably originated in DU.
Don't the Israelis seal up their homes when a chemical attack is possible? What else is going to protect the civilian population?
Oh no.
The ridicule was typical of the democrats. Anybody that puts a little rational thought into the duct tape idea realizes that it isn't a bad idea. In the event of a gas attack you seal up a single room for a few hours.
Like you said, they do it in Israel.
You use the duct tape to put over the mouths of the whiners.
"The recommendations for sealing off a room with plastic sheeting and duct tape are based on what Israel has done since the 1980s to protect its people against chemical weapon attacks -- and were widely used during the Gulf War," says John Sorensen, PhD, research scientist at Oakridge National Laboratory, the Tennessee-based Department of Energy facility that is charged with devising emergency preparedness plans for several federal agencies."
webmd.com
If I learned that a terrorist had bombed a chlorine plant a few miles away, I'd much rather be locked up in a house with duct tape around the windows, doors, etc than in one without. I can just about guarantee you less chlorine would get in the house with the duct tape than in the one without.
Is it foolproof? Of course not. Is it worth doing? Sure.
"The recommendations for sealing off a room with plastic sheeting and duct tape are based on what Israel has done since the 1980s to protect its people against chemical weapon attacks -- and were widely used during the Gulf War," says John Sorensen, PhD, research scientist at Oakridge National Laboratory, the Tennessee-based Department of Energy facility that is charged with devising emergency preparedness plans for several federal agencies."
webmd.com
For a minute, I thought you meant Richard Gere.
You wont be laughing when the dirty bomb goes off...you will wonder why you didnt buy plastic sheeting and duct tape!
The only other alternative is to sit back and wait for the government to save you. We saw how well that works recently.
I made no judgement on if this was a "good" or "valid" idea, I just thought it was odd that this was the guy's claim to fame.
gerbils & duct tape too! Artists! How do they think of this things?
You are on the right track. Duct Tape/Duck Tape/100 mph Tape is also useful after and emergency.
It can be used to secure those pesky looters who come by. After you put them face down in the dirt under the barrel of your handy shotgun.
Add a second piece across their noses to complete the job. :=)
This is just stupid to criticize, yes it might not do much at ground zero of a NBC attack but it could help on the outer fringes of the attack.
Many chemical weapons can not propagate through barriers of this sort, for example blister agents that can cause debilitating lesions including to the lungs would be prevented by this, also many nerve agents don’t propagate very well, notice how many survived the Saran gas attacks in Japan, again a barrier such as described could very well prevent deaths.
Terrorist NBC weapons are bound to be crude an ineffective from all but the immediate area. Chemical weapons are easy to develop but are difficult to disperse effectively in practice. Barrier technology of this sort could have saved many Kurdish lives in Sadams chemical attacks.
This type of advice is not even new. Some of the first shelters described in a response to a nuclear attack were rolled up newspaper barriers, which outside of the initial event could be effective to those living down range of an initial blast.
I have had training in the military in response to NBC attacks
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