The CDC wants to gently prepare people for (an unlikely) nuclear war
Source: CNN
It is absolutely impossible to mention nuclear war without freaking people out, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to gently prepare for the possibility.
The CDC is holding a session January 16 to discuss personal safety measures and the training of response teams "on a federal, state, and local level to prepare for nuclear detonation."
The meeting, part of the agency's monthly Public Health Grand Rounds, will include presentations like "Preparing for the Unthinkable" and "Roadmap to Radiation Preparedness," and it will be held at the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta. "Grand rounds" are a type of meeting or symposium in which members of a public health community come together to discuss topics of interest or public importance.
This isn't the first time in recent months that official entities have informed the public about the consequences of a possible nuclear strike.
In August, amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from North Korea, Guam's Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense released a two-page fact sheet about what to do in the case of a nuclear event.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/health/cdc-nuclear-preparedness-trnd/index.html
Girard442
(6,088 posts)Gently preparing for nuclear war isn't controlling it or preventing it. Giving people good, solid, vivdly presented information about the known realities of nuclear war might. Of course, that would also make it crystal clear that anyone who would for a moment consider the use of nuclear weapons is a mad dog that needs to be put down.
irisblue
(33,055 posts)brush
(53,977 posts)later from fallout?
Come on, Mueller. Speed it up.
Get the addled brained monster out
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)As a child of the cold war I remember the CD triangles in every public building.
Where the hell are they now? The orange asshole knows California doesn't have basements, so he's looking for us to get hit first.
No shelters, no nukes!
Girard442
(6,088 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Yes thank you. What you really want to pray for is the warhead lands on your forhead
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)who will want to kill you and eat you. Is that gentle enough?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)He will allow you guys in blue states to suffer with no help. Just horrible.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,137 posts)and was told I was "kooky" and was punished for doing so.
Girard442
(6,088 posts)CrispyQ
(36,562 posts)I think he wants to use nukes. And I think a part of his base wants him to use them, too.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)On the first day of every month here on Maui the tsunami sirens are tested precisely at 11:45am. Well, in December, they added a second test, the nuclear siren test, which is a warbley siren instead of the constant siren of the tsunami warnings. In fact, we were at Costco this past Tuesday when the sirens were tested, and we had to talk the tourists loading their car next to us off the ledge when the sirens went off.
Shipwack
(2,183 posts)This is one of the things we need to prepare to deal with now, not after the fact.
It is not overstating the fact that for years (decades?) there have been groups that hate the US, and want to do it great harm. Nuclear weapons are becoming easier to research or obtain from elsewhere.
Eventually, someone will succeed in getting or developing one. They will not need a missile to deliver it. They can just put it in a shipping container and set it off in a major port. Even a crude low yield "dirty" bomb will render the place unusable and would be a major blow to our economy.
This doesn't even begin to consider the panic that this event would cause. You think that there was a lot of hysteria and useless regulations after 9/11? Just wait...
Javaman
(62,534 posts)there is no gently with a fucking nuclear war.
I'm just so exhausted of this shit.
BigmanPigman
(51,659 posts)during the midterms. If shelters are used and SEEN as polls perhaps more Americans would take this dangerous fake prez and GOP seriously and vote Dem.
BadgerKid
(4,561 posts)They can't revel in their riches if everybody gets fatally irradiated.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,254 posts)appalachiablue
(41,201 posts)plane airstrips in New Zealand, farmland for growing food there, and in a lower latitude from nuclear winter I think.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)Or are they still un-people according to the CDC?
packman
(16,296 posts)Does one realize how insanely stupid that sounds?
Orange Free State
(611 posts)Note the family picnic at 7:40 in. They use newspaper to protect themselves. Lets all make sure we have enough newspaper to protect us from nuclear war. From the video, several sheets per person should work.
I dont know what happened to the monkey who started it all. He just disappeared. Maybe he went to Mar-a-Lago.
truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)Dragging America back into the 50s.