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Nuclear Attack: Masks and Social Distance in Fallout Shelters
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HockeyDad Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 8:35 PM EST
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Ready.gov (FEMA)

Nuclear explosions can cause significant damage and casualties from blast, heat, and radiation but you can keep your family safe by knowing what to do and being prepared if it occurs.

A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion.

Nuclear devices range from a small portable device carried by an individual to a weapon carried by a missile.

A nuclear explosion may occur with or without a few minutes warning.

Fallout is most dangerous in the first few hours after the detonation when it is giving off the highest levels of radiation. It takes time for fallout to arrive back to ground level, often more than 15 minutes for areas outside of the immediate blast damage zones. This is enough time for you to be able to prevent significant radiation exposure by following these simple steps:

GET INSIDE

Get inside the nearest building to avoid radiation. Brick or concrete are best.

Remove contaminated clothing and wipe off or wash unprotected skin if you were outside after the fallout arrived. Hand sanitizer does not protect against fall out. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth, if possible. Do not use disinfectant wipes on your skin.

Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof. Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them.
Whistlebritches Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 8:44 PM EST
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I LMAO when I heard this this morning.............in a nuclear event social distancing saves lives
MACS Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 8:50 PM EST
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The absurdity continues... and people just go along with it, like lemmings over a cliff.

Sad, really.
RayR Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 9:02 PM EST
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Government bureaucracies are run by crazy people.

FEMA Encourages Survivors of a Nuclear Holocaust To Mask, Socially Distance

The COVID-conscious advice from the federal government's primary disaster response agency is silly. It's also outdated.

CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI | 2.28.2022 3:15 PM

Quote:
While the potential for Russia's invasion of Ukraine to spark a world-ending nuclear conflagration has knocked the pandemic off most frontpages, federal bureaucrats seem determined to prove that they can focus on two crises at once.

On Sunday, Based Politics' Brad Polumbo reported that the Federal Emergency Management's (FEMA) ready.gov webpage for nuclear explosions has been updated to encourage people to mask and socially distance should they be hunkering in a bunker with members outside of their own households.

Should one hear a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, FEMA's website encourages people to shelter inside the nearest building, preferably one made of brick or concrete, and as far away from windows as possible.

"When you have reached a safe place, try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household," continues the agency's webpage. "If possible, wear a mask if you're sheltering with people who are not a part of your household."

FEMA also has some helpful advice for those who survive the nuclear holocaust. Someone having a medical emergency is encouraged to contact 911. Provided the operator also survived, you are to tell them if you think you have COVID-19 and make sure to mask up before help arrives.

It's said that following a nuclear war, the survivors might end up envying the dead.

Fortunately, FEMA offers some helpful advice for those suffering psychic discomfort at witnessing the world set on fire. They're sensitive to the fact that survivors might have already had a lot on their plate before the bombs dropped.

"Talk to someone if you are feeling upset. Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress," ready.gov notes.

More...

https://reason.com/2022/02/28/fema-encourages-survivors-of-a-nuclear-holocaust-to-mask-socially-distance/
BuckyB93 Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 9:20 PM EST
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I'm just going to duck and cover and jump under my desk. I've seen videos that say this is a preferred practice. What ever happened to stop, drop, and roll? That's not a thing anymore?

I guess if you social distance, the 6 foot buffer will help prevent you from catching fire while your buddy's skin melts away.
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#6 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 9:28 PM EST
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bgz Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 10:14 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
I'm just going to duck and cover and jump under my desk. I've seen videos that say this is a preferred practice. What ever happened to stop, drop, and roll? That's not a thing anymore?

I guess if you social distance, the 6 foot buffer will help prevent you from catching fire while your buddy's skin melts away.


Built in excuse for not kicking him when he's down.
ZRX1200 Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 10:35 PM EST
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Pretty sure “duck and cover” was brought to you by the same people who thinks masks work.
Krazeehorse Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 10:39 PM EST
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Do people from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have natural immunity?
ZRX1200 Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 10:44 PM EST
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Boosters are still recommended
frankj1 Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 11:17 PM EST
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Krazeehorse wrote:
Do people from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have natural immunity?

excellent!
MACS Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Feb 28 2022, 11:40 PM EST
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Krazeehorse wrote:
Do people from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have natural immunity?


Masks would have been just as effective for them. HA!
Mike3316 Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 2:39 AM EST
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I'm giving away my age here ... but I remember being told to hide under my wooden desk during nuclear air-raid drills in school when i was a little kid in the early 70's. This makes just as much sense as that. Because we ALL know how effective paper masks are at stopping COVID - they'll clearly do an equally steller job preventing the spread of radiation! lmao
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#14 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 7:04 AM EST
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Mike3316 wrote:
I'm giving away my age here ... but I remember being told to hide under my wooden desk during nuclear air-raid drills in school when i was a little kid in the early 70's. This makes just as much sense as that. Because we ALL know how effective paper masks are at stopping COVID - they'll clearly do an equally steller job preventing the spread of radiation! lmao



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Burner02 Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 7:27 AM EST
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I have fond memories of the 4th grade when we did the duck and dive drills. We also did the how fast one could sprint home
and duck and dive there. (Cuban Missle Crisis - early 60's)

These were really just bend over and kiss your ass good by drills.
Speyside2 Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 8:42 AM EST
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You can't make **** like this up can you.
RayR Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 10:43 AM EST
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Duck and Cover...IT"S SCIENCE! LOL LOL LOL

https://youtu.be/BFT8hLjHtuE
RMAN4443 Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 11:00 AM EST
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Duck, Dodge, and Hyde...


https://youtu.be/lysTuFbleKo?t=110
BuckyB93 Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 11:26 AM EST
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One might argue that masks could provide better protection during nuclear fallout than they would from a virus apocalypse. Even a simple dust mask could filter out and help prevent you from from inhaling some radioactive particulates and soot better than it would do in filtering out virus fumes.

But if it comes to that point, does it really matter? Ya'll gonna die anyway.

NINE! teen
Burner02 Offline
#20 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 11:32 AM EST
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RayR wrote:
Duck and Cover...IT"S SCIENCE! LOL LOL LOL

https://youtu.be/BFT8hLjHtuE



Follow those instructions very closely and then bend over and kiss your ass good by.
HockeyDad Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 11:46 AM EST
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I wonder if I can find any of those old nuclear bomb shelter stickers on buildings anymore. Where I grew up there was only one rated civilian building that I can remember so we had to practice “Duck, Cover, and Hold” drills. Funny thing is that is still the same drill for earthquakes.
BuckyB93 Offline
#22 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:14 PM EST
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The high school I went to had a bomb shelter under their indoor pool. The principal of the high school lived at the end of the block from us were friends of our family.

Sometimes on the weekends, we'd go swimming at the pool (just our family and theirs) since he had keys to the entire building. He gave us a tour of the bomb shelter under the pool. How they were able to install a bomb shelter under an indoor pool, I have no clue. I do remember it being stocked with MRE's, first aid kits, and stuff and large tins of hard candy.

Good thing northern WI is not in an earthquake zone. Imagine if the floor of the pool dropped out
HockeyDad Offline
#23 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:33 PM EST
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Three thoughts:

1. Pool floor cracks and floods bomb shelter. Design flaw.

2. Indoor pool? My high school didn’t even have an outdoor pool. Franking aristocrats.

3. Is there anything in Wisconsin worth nuking or is this just “we got leftover nukes so let’s melt everything kinda nuking?”
frankj1 Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 12:50 PM EST
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Mike3316 wrote:
I'm giving away my age here ... but I remember being told to hide under my wooden desk during nuclear air-raid drills in school when i was a little kid in the early 70's. This makes just as much sense as that. Because we ALL know how effective paper masks are at stopping COVID - they'll clearly do an equally steller job preventing the spread of radiation! lmao

meh, you're a kid.
We had Friday noon sirens until mid to late 60's but they had stopped long before the early 70's
By the late 60's early 70's the focus was ending the Viet Nam war.
BuckyB93 Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 1:29 PM EST
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I remember the air siren tests. Every Sunday at noon.
RayR Offline
#26 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 4:43 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
I remember the air siren tests. Every Sunday at noon.


Me too, we lived about 30 yards away from that siren at the corner of the street. Freaking super loud and annoying.
Then they'd blast it every time there was a fire alarm too, the local volunteer fire department was just about a mile down the street.
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#27 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 6:41 PM EST
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If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
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Mr. Jones Offline
#28 Posted: Tue, Mar 1 2022, 7:17 PM EST
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Welllll,

When you get to the shelter???

If you can even find one???

I dont think any nuclear shelters have been built since
1960-64???

Several hospital basements, govt building basements, sporting event basements in older stadiums and older local school bldgs too....

But when your in there with a few peeps who caught the brunt of the blast and didn't get there within 15 minutes???
Welll, when they are screaming to be put out of their misery and their skin is falling off???
6ft distancing will be no prollum at all, and sure ass hell the screamers will not be wearing masks....

Read any first hand accounts by survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki....it will make you sick to your stomach and unable to sleep for a week....

If it doesn't?

T.H.E.N. you are one sick sick SICK MUDDERFUC*in' disturbed sadist prick....

JUST LIKE GARY O'CONNOR : SSG FIELD CHIEF EXTROIDINAIRE FELON CRIMINAL WITH A GUN AND A BADGE...

Annnnddddd

YOU NOW ARE THE PERFECT CANDIDATE TO BE HIRED BY THE F.B.I. "SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE GROUP DIVISION"...IN SPADES, YOU'LL FIT IN JUST LIKE A GLOVE..
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