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jeremias
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Nuclear Fallout
Do you think the farmacias have any potassium iodide in stock?
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Baja12valve
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Potassium iodine offers no protection from radiation.
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Diver
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If you look at the wind/jet stream, you will see that so Cal and Baja should not see any radiation.
Northern Cal, Oregon, Washington and BC are getting the winds from Japan this time of year. The center of the jet stream is running right down the
WA/OR border; probably going past my house as we speak. 
I just calculated that it will take 2-3 days for it to reach my house.
Some of it may already be here. 
[Edited on 3-15-2011 by Diver]
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja12valve
Potassium iodine offers no protection from radiation. |
That wasn't the question. However, I believe most well stocked pharmacies would have Potassium Iodide.
The key question is:
How would you know when to dose and how much?
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mtgoat666
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mass hysteria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| Quote: | Originally posted by jeremias
Do you think the farmacias have any potassium iodide in stock? |
KI provides only limited protection of your thyroid gland from radioactive I.
If this is something that concerns you, use iodized table salt.
fyi, there are many more radionuclides besides I.
the very low levels you may see in north america from Japan are not a concern.
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Heather
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they sell "KI" on the internet...look up NoRad!
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http://www.amazon.com/iOSAT-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets-130/dp/...
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Woooosh
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I'll trade yo your anti-radiation pills for my leftover anti-anthrax pills.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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djh
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IF you are concerned
about radioactive iodine impacting your thyroid (health). . . . don't drink milk! That is what experts have said in the past and again now.
Currently, the radioactive iodine dispersal is so diluted that it will likely not affect you in any way . . . unless you're drinking milk . . . from
cows that have been grazing on downwind grasslands and accumulating and "condensing" it to a point that it might affect your health.
Besides, potassium iodine only protects your thyroid from radioactive iodine uptake....
And it has already been mentioned that the most serious radioactive "elements" that might be dispersed by a full meltdown (Cesium, for example) are
not prevented in ANY way by potassium iodine - or most any other preventative action (other that leaving the area of contamination completely). All
lessons learned at Chernobyl.
Meanwhile the iodine tablet frenzy is in full tilt boogie.....
Simple Nomad Solution ? ? ? Drink beer instead of milk....
Anyone with me on this ?
 djh
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
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Iflyfish
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djh, good one.
An excellent source of Iodine and Pottasium is Kelp, also called Nori.
The iodine binds to the sites in the thyroid where the radioactive iodine would bond.
The adult dose for KI is 130mg adults and 65mg children.
Dosage of Kelp for radiation exposure. 60grams = 2.12 oz. for someone weighing 154lbs.
Infants should have 1/2 child dose.
You must ingest the KI or Kelp at least 24 hours prior to exposure to bind the sites in the thyroid.
Pray to the goddess or to whom it may concern that we NEVER have to use this information.
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Iflyfish
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Diver is right about the fallout pattern, ready to go amigo!!??
You guys down there can just sit back, pop a Tecate or Pacifico and watch us up here in the PNW light up. Or you can light up and watch us....er..you
get the picture.
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wessongroup
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja12valve
Potassium iodine offers no protection from radiation. |
That wasn't the question. However, I believe most well stocked pharmacies would have Potassium Iodide.
The key question is:
How would you know when to dose and how much? |
Just remember how much your mom used to give you.... 
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Hook
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Geez, might be time to skip the farmed sushi from Japan.
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Why am I not worried about this? The media has morphed into the modern version of "Chicken Little". If the eco-nuts are against something it has to
have some good points. How many people have died as a result of accidents etc. at nuclear power plants?
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Iflyfish
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Cypress:
The World Health Organization estimates 4,000 deaths from the Chernobyl meltdown. Now these figures are from the WHO and not Glenn Beck so they are of
course suspect.
http://tinyurl.com/37kton
Eco nuts??? Worries about safety of nuclear power plants is nuts? Ever heard of Chernobyl, the death of 430 infants in the wake of Three Mile Island,
or the deaths at other nuclear facilities http://www.lutins.org/nukes.html you do the counting.
All of this is well documented. Stop listening to Glen Beck.
IflyfishshakingmyheadathowbrainwashedthosewholistentoFOXreallyare http://tinyurl.com/6rrny6
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Baja12valve
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Baja12valve
Potassium iodine offers no protection from radiation. |
That wasn't the question. However, I believe most well stocked pharmacies would have Potassium Iodide.
So as I read through the posts, you tell me, is it iodine or iodide? |
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wessongroup
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Or perhaps... "greed within the worldwide nuclear industry"
http://tinyurl.com/4jcgxoy
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Cypress
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Iflyfish;
Well documented? Like the documentation for Anthropogenic Global Warming? We'll see how this all plays out.
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Woooosh
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My GE stock is getting nuked. Just my luck GE designed that place and the GE scientists quit at the time over the bad design. MY 401K never gets a
break.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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David K
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Considering the number of deaths from coal fired power plants and coal mining... and the only nuclear deaths were from a Soviet plant that was being
mis-operated by communist party officers, and there was no containment building over it... Nuclear power is far safer. It powers many of our navy
ships and subs, as well.
Find a better source of energy, and that would be great... until then, nuclear and coal and oil must supplement the energy we get from hydro-electric
plants at dams and the tiny drip of power from solar and wind we get. I am a fan of tide and wave energy... Mexico could be a great exporter of power
if a tide generated facility were built in the upper Gulf of California with one of the world's biggest tides... near the delta.
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