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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it time to get out the duct tape and plastic sheeting yet? Or is that for a
different emergency?
Rhiannon12866
(206,853 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,853 posts)I think I knew already. My heart starts racing and my stomach wrenches every time I watch the news.
Blue Owl
(50,588 posts)n/t
trusty elf
(7,404 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,853 posts)Plastic Jesus will protect you?? AND He needs batteries?? Makes almost as much sense as those ads I've seen where people experience "miracles" after sending for bottles of "special" water!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,560 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,853 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,560 posts)(Might be more fitting in the thread about the 11 y.o. getting arrested for not standing to pledge allegiance to the flag).
LeftInTX
(25,811 posts)hunter
(38,353 posts)rampartc
(5,458 posts)strange as this may sound the duct tape and plastic sheeting was survuval advice a generation ago.
the advice for my generation was "crawl under your desk."
equally effective.
shraby
(21,946 posts)rampartc
(5,458 posts)and are having babies of their own.
the "war on terror" has gone on for a generation.
Igel
(35,390 posts)a radiological bomb or gas attack. Something with an airborne toxic component, but one that would settle to the ground reasonably quickly or get blown away.
Then the only risk if you're inside is what gets inside. So plastic sheeting and duct tapes to cover windows or other gaps and keep the stuff out.
And it is standard advice if there's that kind of attack. (It's not good for, say, nuclear blasts or bullets, but unless you read the context it was easy to take it out of context. Few reporters wanted to read the context, so they didn't; then they reported the advice without any context, or, worse, with the wrong context.)
DFW
(54,506 posts)TEB
(12,957 posts)Your inspirational