Last Year, the REALITY was clear. A radionuclide storm swept from Japan across the USA and then to Europe and finally to Asia. I secured KI tablets, in the event of a Fukushima 4 incident. They are still in the medicine cabinet.
I was briefed, during the Cold War, DECADES ago, so I took some simple precautions and counseled others to do the same. I avoided and limited outdoor activites until about May, tossed any clothes in the washer and showered upon entering the house. A simple facemask was used, when doing any yardwork. I stocked up on pre-disaster foods, before the contaminated stocks could arrive. The HVAC fan ran 24X7 and the HEPA filters were changed out VERY regularly.
I took 2X DAILY Vitamin/Mineral Suppliment tablets for about 6 months. This was to slightly overbalance all metabolic systems with minerals, to reduce environmental uptake. This seemed about right for Texas. I checked with a radiologist and he did not disagree.
I ignored the ridicule. Did you?
Since Obama ashcanned the anti-radiation drug supply; RIDICULE of caution was employed. That ploy was to the VICTIMS from panic. It also prevented them from taking SIMPLE precautions.
I took KI. Keep in mind that the Japanese get 15 mg a day from their diet. Now 15 mg from dietary sources is not going to be a strong as 15 mg from a pill, but it just goes to show the relative safety of iodine even in very large quantities. Personally, I split my KI tablets in half and took half a day for 2 weeks. Better safe than sorry.
According to the FDA, the following doses are appropriate to take after internal contamination with (or likely internal contamination with) radioactive iodine:
• Adults should take 130 mg (one 130 mg tablet OR two 65 mg tablets OR two mL of solution).
• Women who are breastfeeding should take the adult dose of 130 mg.
• Children between 3 and 18 years of age should take 65 mg (one 65 mg tablet OR 1 mL of solution).
Children who are adult size (greater than or equal to 150 pounds) should take the full adult dose,
regardless of their age.
• Infants and children between 1 month and 3 years of age should take 32 mg (½ of a 65 mg tablet
OR ½ mL of solution). This dose is for both nursing and nonnursing infants and children.
• Newborns from birth to 1 month of age should be given 16 mg (¼ of a 65 mg tablet or ¼ mL of
solution). This dose is for both nursing and nonnursing newborn infants.
How often should I take KI?
A single dose of KI protects the thyroid gland for 24 hours. A onetime dose at the levels recommended in this fact sheet is usually all that is needed to protect the thyroid gland. In some cases, radioactive iodine might be in the environment for more than 24 hours. If that happens, local emergency management or public health officials may tell you to take one dose of KI every 24 hours for a few days. You should do this only on the advice of emergency management officials, public health officials, or your doctor. Avoid repeat dosing with KI for pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborn infants. Those individuals may need to be evacuated until levels of radioactive iodine in the environment fall.
Taking a higher dose of KI, or taking KI more often than recommended, does not offer more protection and can cause severe illness or death.
I looked at the measurements of what was reaching the bay area, say that the "Radionuclide storm" was barely a "Radionuclide breeze" and went about my life.
But I strongly support all of the precautionary measures that you took. I'm sure it made you feel better.
Anti-Radiation Drug Protocols were medically INDICATED for All of Honshu Island, Japan, based upon the conditions and evidence based medicine. HI, Alaska, BC, WA, OR, CA and Baja were within the envelope, wherein lower level radiation precautions were arguably advisable for the general population, and medically justifiable for higher risk demographics. This would include women of child bearing age, pregnant, nursing moms, infants and children.
According to the American Thyroid Association, prenatal vitamins for USA pregant and nursing mothers and trying to get pregnat, SHOULD include higher than routine RDA for KI. Last year, the prenatal vitamins did NOT include ANY KI. Yet, NO measures were taken and no public service announcements were made. I doubt that ANY California ObGyns, MFMs, Neonatal units or pedatricians said DIDDLY-SQUAT to their patients.
No Left Coast precautions were taken, to the detriment of the populations at risk. This gives rise to the ONLY 'feeling' that I have experienced in this drill ... RAGE!
According to Dr. Donald W. Miller, "Researchers have determined that residents on the coast of Hokkaido eat a quantity of seaweed sufficient to provide a daily iodine intake of 200 mg a day."
How does your typical multi compare to 200 MILLIGRAMS? Remember, we're not even talking daily, optimal health here, we're talking protection from radioisotopes. If your thyroid was not full of good iodine, it picked up some radioactive iodine and the effects will become clear a few years down the road.
Appropriate radionuclide precautions are a function of dosage and sensitivity. Dosage uptake relates to distance, weather, diet and other physical barriers and ... luck. Personal sensitivity relates to age, gender, genetics and ... luck.
Thus for example, male foetuses, children and young women have severe morbidity, sequelae, and mortality due to radiation and/or radioisotope uptake. By contrast, 'old dudes' are much less sensitive to radiation exposures.
Japan should have taken EXTREME measures to protect the unborn, children and young women from the Fukushima Muti-Meltdown. Rapid Evacuation, water filtration, protective clothing, masks, shelter, decontamination, drug prophylaxis, dosage testing and the like SHOULD have been universally initiated for a 150 mile radius from the Fukushima power plant.
Japan took NO SUCH PRECAUTIONS. This deliberate inaction will prove costly on a societal and personal basis. NW Pacific islanders and the Left Coast dwellers, should have 'sheltered in place' and perhaps evacuated the most sensitive groups as far as practical. Instead, the governments of Japan, the Islands and (western) USA, Canada and Mexico did nothing but lie.
This inaction will have devastating consequences in Japan and unnecessarily tragic consequences for the other 'down-winders'.
We chose to exercise conservative caution and took the exact measures you did, to include KI during fallout, and have continued a Lugol's regimen since. At the time, and to date, I could care less if anyone ridicules me. These precautions are just common sense in case the experts who say all is well, are wrong. As time passes, looks more and more like there's been subterfuge and I'm glad I trusted my instincts.
There were LOTS of discussions and threads on several sites. There was some very good advice and some VERY bad advice, mixed together. But the discussion was candid, and most average IQ, average education citizens could have benefitted.
MOST of us, declined to self-medicate with prophylactic dosages of KI or insoluble Prussian Blue. Such treatments WERE called for on Honshu Island Japan. Perhaps Hokaido and a few smaller Japanese Island populations, and a few other NW Pacific Islanders would have benefitted as well.
Japan DID NOT distribute, sell or apparently EVER have ANY anti-radiation drugs stockpiled. That was HUGELY STUPID, and fateful, given ANY level of common sense, given the obvious.
The USA maintained a strategic (anti-radiation) drug stockpile for about 60 years, until about 2010, when Obama tossed ALL the LIFE_SAVING drugs into the dumpster. That was NOT very bright either, but the USA got lucky.
By the way, what are the chances that I could purchase a Booster Smallpox shot? Active Smallpox viruses are in every old (marked & unmarked) cemetary on earth. One of these days, some of it will escape, or be weaponized. I'll probably be fine, but a lot of kids will be SCRUDE. All accines should be available over the counter, on demand, without prescription. By my lights, ANY public policies to the contrary are statistical suicide, given the HOMICIDAL, FRATRACIDAL, SUICIDAL, PSYCHOTIC 'political-leadership' in the USA, Japan and most of the other nations.
I tried to get KI pills and couldn't. Everyone was out, back ordered. I finally got some in May.
They are in my pantry.
You were lucky you could afford to stay indoors. But children everywhere, especially in California, were exposed during daily exercise outside on school playgrounds. They are the innocent victims here. One 11 year old boy in my child's middle school in N. California was diagnosed with a rare form of lukemia four months after Fukushima. He is fighting for his life.
There was NO REASON for Left Coast kids to be outside exercising during the 2011 Hemispheric Radionuclide Storm. The (thieving, lying, murdering) Permanent Political Class WILLFULLY exposed those kids to HARMFUL levels of radiative fallout last spring.
Schools and families SHOULD HAVE protected these kids, but they THREW them to the (mutagenic) fates. There should have been EXTRA air filtration in homes and classes and masks when outdoors. Kids are 10X more susceptable to radiation than adults, the unborn even more so.
Instead the Godforsaken lying politicians and media DELIBERATELY endangered the next generation. The OPEN ridicule and Scorn for 'universal precautions' created an unnecessarily DANGEROUS world for these kids. They should be held to account for this atrocity.
Most building codes require ‘make-up-air’ intakes for commercial air conditioning systems. This pulls outside air into the building and creates a tiny positive pressure inside. Most private home air conditioner systems do not have this feature. The intake vents can face up, down or horizontal. They can be filtered or not. They may have a cut-off flapper. They can be defeated, with a Hefty trash bag. This is better than actively SUCKING radionuclides INTO the school, or office building. Thirty minutes, with duct-tape, pocketknife, cardboard and an el-cheapo air -conditioner filter would have reduced radionuclides levels in California schools by 98% last March.
Strategic Air Command (SAC) training, from long-long-ago, provided me with lots of useful survival tricks. I was happy to share them. But Last year, during the hemispheric radionuclide storm, we were considered the ‘Tin Hat Brigade’.
Sorry about the Left Coast Kids, office workers and mall shoppers. You are ‘Hot’ and I am ‘Not’. I did not give you cancer, early organ failure and a compromised immune system. Thank your local, state, federal and international authorities, oh and the Lame-stream media, for that. I tried to help, but you were too busy laughing, to hear.
The media was guilty of gross dereliction of duty!
The global media was worse than useless. Their actions were directly harmful. Many accurate stories were written by the Associated Press and posted on the Wire. The radio, TV, newspaper and magazine editors BURIED these stories; not on page 24F, but in the 'newsroom-File-13'.
Thousands of accurate studies from the Cold War forward, NEVER saw the light of day.
Too bad there was not a 'hated' Republican in the White House. Then the media would have 'fired away', with the Facts of Fukushima, and radiation exposure. Countless lives would have been saved and public health better preserved.
The media IS willing to KILL, us ALL, to preserve the 'Obama Fiction'.
Oh and 'the usual suspects' bought a lot of advertizing and goodwill.
Ridicule
Last Year, the REALITY was clear. A radionuclide storm swept from Japan across the USA and then to Europe and finally to Asia. I secured KI tablets, in the event of a Fukushima 4 incident. They are still in the medicine cabinet.
I was briefed, during the Cold War, DECADES ago, so I took some simple precautions and counseled others to do the same. I avoided and limited outdoor activites until about May, tossed any clothes in the washer and showered upon entering the house. A simple facemask was used, when doing any yardwork. I stocked up on pre-disaster foods, before the contaminated stocks could arrive. The HVAC fan ran 24X7 and the HEPA filters were changed out VERY regularly.
I took 2X DAILY Vitamin/Mineral Suppliment tablets for about 6 months. This was to slightly overbalance all metabolic systems with minerals, to reduce environmental uptake. This seemed about right for Texas. I checked with a radiologist and he did not disagree.
I ignored the ridicule. Did you?
Since Obama ashcanned the anti-radiation drug supply; RIDICULE of caution was employed. That ploy was to the VICTIMS from panic. It also prevented them from taking SIMPLE precautions.
I ignored the ridicule. Did you?
I took KI. Keep in mind that
I took KI. Keep in mind that the Japanese get 15 mg a day from their diet. Now 15 mg from dietary sources is not going to be a strong as 15 mg from a pill, but it just goes to show the relative safety of iodine even in very large quantities. Personally, I split my KI tablets in half and took half a day for 2 weeks. Better safe than sorry.
Proper Dosages
According to the FDA, the following doses are appropriate to take after internal contamination with (or likely internal contamination with) radioactive iodine:
• Adults should take 130 mg (one 130 mg tablet OR two 65 mg tablets OR two mL of solution).
• Women who are breastfeeding should take the adult dose of 130 mg.
• Children between 3 and 18 years of age should take 65 mg (one 65 mg tablet OR 1 mL of solution).
Children who are adult size (greater than or equal to 150 pounds) should take the full adult dose,
regardless of their age.
• Infants and children between 1 month and 3 years of age should take 32 mg (½ of a 65 mg tablet
OR ½ mL of solution). This dose is for both nursing and nonnursing infants and children.
• Newborns from birth to 1 month of age should be given 16 mg (¼ of a 65 mg tablet or ¼ mL of
solution). This dose is for both nursing and nonnursing newborn infants.
How often should I take KI?
A single dose of KI protects the thyroid gland for 24 hours. A onetime dose at the levels recommended in this fact sheet is usually all that is needed to protect the thyroid gland. In some cases, radioactive iodine might be in the environment for more than 24 hours. If that happens, local emergency management or public health officials may tell you to take one dose of KI every 24 hours for a few days. You should do this only on the advice of emergency management officials, public health officials, or your doctor. Avoid repeat dosing with KI for pregnant and breastfeeding women and newborn infants. Those individuals may need to be evacuated until levels of radioactive iodine in the environment fall.
Taking a higher dose of KI, or taking KI more often than recommended, does not offer more protection and can cause severe illness or death.
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/pdf/ki.pdf
"I ignored the ridicule. Did
"I ignored the ridicule. Did you?"
I looked at the measurements of what was reaching the bay area, say that the "Radionuclide storm" was barely a "Radionuclide breeze" and went about my life.
But I strongly support all of the precautionary measures that you took. I'm sure it made you feel better.
Condescending CHIT
I don't speak Left Coast 'touchy-feely' Yah-Yah
Anti-Radiation Drug Protocols were medically INDICATED for All of Honshu Island, Japan, based upon the conditions and evidence based medicine. HI, Alaska, BC, WA, OR, CA and Baja were within the envelope, wherein lower level radiation precautions were arguably advisable for the general population, and medically justifiable for higher risk demographics. This would include women of child bearing age, pregnant, nursing moms, infants and children.
According to the American Thyroid Association, prenatal vitamins for USA pregant and nursing mothers and trying to get pregnat, SHOULD include higher than routine RDA for KI. Last year, the prenatal vitamins did NOT include ANY KI. Yet, NO measures were taken and no public service announcements were made. I doubt that ANY California ObGyns, MFMs, Neonatal units or pedatricians said DIDDLY-SQUAT to their patients.
No Left Coast precautions were taken, to the detriment of the populations at risk. This gives rise to the ONLY 'feeling' that I have experienced in this drill ... RAGE!
And I don't live on the Left Coast
According to Dr. Donald W.
According to Dr. Donald W. Miller, "Researchers have determined that residents on the coast of Hokkaido eat a quantity of seaweed sufficient to provide a daily iodine intake of 200 mg a day."
How does your typical multi compare to 200 MILLIGRAMS? Remember, we're not even talking daily, optimal health here, we're talking protection from radioisotopes. If your thyroid was not full of good iodine, it picked up some radioactive iodine and the effects will become clear a few years down the road.
Distance, Sensitivity & Prophylaxis
Distance, Sensitivity & Prophylaxis
Appropriate radionuclide precautions are a function of dosage and sensitivity. Dosage uptake relates to distance, weather, diet and other physical barriers and ... luck. Personal sensitivity relates to age, gender, genetics and ... luck.
Thus for example, male foetuses, children and young women have severe morbidity, sequelae, and mortality due to radiation and/or radioisotope uptake. By contrast, 'old dudes' are much less sensitive to radiation exposures.
Japan should have taken EXTREME measures to protect the unborn, children and young women from the Fukushima Muti-Meltdown. Rapid Evacuation, water filtration, protective clothing, masks, shelter, decontamination, drug prophylaxis, dosage testing and the like SHOULD have been universally initiated for a 150 mile radius from the Fukushima power plant.
Japan took NO SUCH PRECAUTIONS. This deliberate inaction will prove costly on a societal and personal basis. NW Pacific islanders and the Left Coast dwellers, should have 'sheltered in place' and perhaps evacuated the most sensitive groups as far as practical. Instead, the governments of Japan, the Islands and (western) USA, Canada and Mexico did nothing but lie.
This inaction will have devastating consequences in Japan and unnecessarily tragic consequences for the other 'down-winders'.
Sad but true
We chose to exercise
We chose to exercise conservative caution and took the exact measures you did, to include KI during fallout, and have continued a Lugol's regimen since. At the time, and to date, I could care less if anyone ridicules me. These precautions are just common sense in case the experts who say all is well, are wrong. As time passes, looks more and more like there's been subterfuge and I'm glad I trusted my instincts.
Lots of discussions & Threads
There were LOTS of discussions and threads on several sites. There was some very good advice and some VERY bad advice, mixed together. But the discussion was candid, and most average IQ, average education citizens could have benefitted.
MOST of us, declined to self-medicate with prophylactic dosages of KI or insoluble Prussian Blue. Such treatments WERE called for on Honshu Island Japan. Perhaps Hokaido and a few smaller Japanese Island populations, and a few other NW Pacific Islanders would have benefitted as well.
Japan DID NOT distribute, sell or apparently EVER have ANY anti-radiation drugs stockpiled. That was HUGELY STUPID, and fateful, given ANY level of common sense, given the obvious.
The USA maintained a strategic (anti-radiation) drug stockpile for about 60 years, until about 2010, when Obama tossed ALL the LIFE_SAVING drugs into the dumpster. That was NOT very bright either, but the USA got lucky.
By the way, what are the chances that I could purchase a Booster Smallpox shot? Active Smallpox viruses are in every old (marked & unmarked) cemetary on earth. One of these days, some of it will escape, or be weaponized. I'll probably be fine, but a lot of kids will be SCRUDE. All accines should be available over the counter, on demand, without prescription. By my lights, ANY public policies to the contrary are statistical suicide, given the HOMICIDAL, FRATRACIDAL, SUICIDAL, PSYCHOTIC 'political-leadership' in the USA, Japan and most of the other nations.
IMHO
Lukemia
I tried to get KI pills and couldn't. Everyone was out, back ordered. I finally got some in May.
They are in my pantry.
You were lucky you could afford to stay indoors. But children everywhere, especially in California, were exposed during daily exercise outside on school playgrounds. They are the innocent victims here. One 11 year old boy in my child's middle school in N. California was diagnosed with a rare form of lukemia four months after Fukushima. He is fighting for his life.
The POINT
THAT is precisely the POINT
There was NO REASON for Left Coast kids to be outside exercising during the 2011 Hemispheric Radionuclide Storm. The (thieving, lying, murdering) Permanent Political Class WILLFULLY exposed those kids to HARMFUL levels of radiative fallout last spring.
Schools and families SHOULD HAVE protected these kids, but they THREW them to the (mutagenic) fates. There should have been EXTRA air filtration in homes and classes and masks when outdoors. Kids are 10X more susceptable to radiation than adults, the unborn even more so.
Instead the Godforsaken lying politicians and media DELIBERATELY endangered the next generation. The OPEN ridicule and Scorn for 'universal precautions' created an unnecessarily DANGEROUS world for these kids. They should be held to account for this atrocity.
In My Humble Opinion
Tin Hat Brigade
Blasts from the (Cold War) past
Most building codes require ‘make-up-air’ intakes for commercial air conditioning systems. This pulls outside air into the building and creates a tiny positive pressure inside. Most private home air conditioner systems do not have this feature. The intake vents can face up, down or horizontal. They can be filtered or not. They may have a cut-off flapper. They can be defeated, with a Hefty trash bag. This is better than actively SUCKING radionuclides INTO the school, or office building. Thirty minutes, with duct-tape, pocketknife, cardboard and an el-cheapo air -conditioner filter would have reduced radionuclides levels in California schools by 98% last March.
Strategic Air Command (SAC) training, from long-long-ago, provided me with lots of useful survival tricks. I was happy to share them. But Last year, during the hemispheric radionuclide storm, we were considered the ‘Tin Hat Brigade’.
Sorry about the Left Coast Kids, office workers and mall shoppers. You are ‘Hot’ and I am ‘Not’. I did not give you cancer, early organ failure and a compromised immune system. Thank your local, state, federal and international authorities, oh and the Lame-stream media, for that. I tried to help, but you were too busy laughing, to hear.
Lance Corporal, Tin Hat Brigade
Ooops
Strategic Drug Stockpile
So, what kind of frigging MORON would toss the ENTIRE USA Strategic (antiradiation) Drug Stockpile in the dumpster?
That is some kinda new record for STUPID, In My Humble Opinion.
Perhaps community organizer is NOT a great training ground for disaster management.
Ooops!
gross dereliction of duty
The media was guilty of gross dereliction of duty!
The global media was worse than useless. Their actions were directly harmful. Many accurate stories were written by the Associated Press and posted on the Wire. The radio, TV, newspaper and magazine editors BURIED these stories; not on page 24F, but in the 'newsroom-File-13'.
Thousands of accurate studies from the Cold War forward, NEVER saw the light of day.
Too bad there was not a 'hated' Republican in the White House. Then the media would have 'fired away', with the Facts of Fukushima, and radiation exposure. Countless lives would have been saved and public health better preserved.
The media IS willing to KILL, us ALL, to preserve the 'Obama Fiction'.
Oh and 'the usual suspects' bought a lot of advertizing and goodwill.
What Fukushima?