tbh I am more worried of an EMP nuke detonated high in the atmosphere than localized nuclear explosions. An EMP would lead to famines and total chaos.
Do we know that to be a fact?
Updated rules on preparedness for nuclear explosion
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Re: Updated rules on preparedness for nuclear explosion
#72I am genuinely asking; how worried should we be? I'm really freaking out about this...
My dad spent his career processing nuclear waste as chemical engineer. I called him over the weekend to ask about the prospects of surviving a nuclear strike. We had a good long chat about it, but the summary is that if you can avoid direct exposure to the initial gamma ray burst, and then avoid the fallout for at least a few hours (ideally longer if you can), you actually have a sizable chance of survival. After tha…
Have a battery powered portable radio! I’ve read that the amount of fallout that comes down (and thus the amount of time you’ll want to wait in shelter to avoid the initial fallout) can vary dramatically depending on yield, blast location, wind speed, etc.
A battery powered portable radio will let you access the information you need to know if you should be sheltering for 2 hours, 2 days, or a week.
Also, a battery powered emergency radio will be absolutely useful in a wide variety of other (probably much more likely) disaster scenarios.
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#73No shelters within 200 miles of me. I live next to New York City. Are we screwed?
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#74If you have just survived a nuclear explosion and find yourself in need of assistance, call 911 and be sure to let the operator know if you have or believe you may have COVID-19. Absolute insanity.
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Yes. If there's a nuclear explosion close enough that you need to take shelter, 911 isn't coming whether you tell them you have COVID or not, assuming you can even reach them, which is dubious.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If possible, please position the nuclear blast between yourself and COVID-19 in order to minimize proximity to COVID."
"In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, breaking in to warehouses to steal and hoard COVID-19 vaccines should be your first priority. Your mind will be at ease knowing these can be stored or long periods by burying them in the glaciers that will rapidly form as the atmosphere will be black with radioactive dust for many years. Social distancing and mask wearing should be your next priority. The global failure of agricult…
So we are getting the glaciers back?? What a win
Re: Updated rules on preparedness for nuclear explosion
#76If you have just survived a nuclear explosion and find yourself in need of assistance, call 911 and be sure to let the operator know if you have or believe you may have COVID-19. Absolute insanity.
"survived a nuclear explosion" and arent blind, deaf, or dying, use a magical telephone that also survived a massive EMP rendering most telco switching equipment useless, and inform the nonexistent person at the other end of the line you would like to experience mass-casualty triage at an already entirely overloaded US hospital, presuming you have insurance.
Would hate to see the copay for radiation burns
Re: Updated rules on preparedness for nuclear explosion
#77I am genuinely asking; how worried should we be? I'm really freaking out about this...
Not worried at all.
If a nuclear war happens, you probably won't know about it for very long. So why bother stressing?
This is like asking whether you should be worried about the fact that you will die someday. If you sweat that sort of thing, you'll never get anything done.
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#78Serious question: should we all get tarps to cover up the ground around us before fallout comes? We could save significant topsoil this way.
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#79I am genuinely asking; how worried should we be? I'm really freaking out about this...
Either we all die or we don't[1], either way there's nothing you can do. I'm sure there's things you can be worried about that you can actually affect. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
That’s not quite true! If you live, a little prep will go a long way.
Have an emergency kit (see ready.gov for a good checklist). If you survive, such a kit will help significantly in the immediate aftermath.
It’s also a useful kit for a wide array of (more likely) natural disasters.
After you’ve put together your kit, then I agree. You’ve done your prep, nothing else you can control about it, so don’t stress too much about it.
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#80If you have just survived a nuclear explosion and find yourself in need of assistance, call 911 and be sure to let the operator know if you have or believe you may have COVID-19. Absolute insanity.
Note that this is not a direct quote. That bit about COVID-19 appears in a big paragraph about what to do if you’re sick or injured. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a shared boilerplate across lots of government websites about emergencies. This whole page mentions COVID-19 a few times but really isn’t as ludicrous or reminiscent of satire as people here are making it out to be.
There's lots of bits about COVID-19, and what I paraphrased came from the part about what to do after you have survived a nuclear explosion.
I think the more likely explanation is simply that it was written by people in disaster management who have a myopic focus on the COVID-19 crisis and a vested interest in keeping COVID under their purview (i.e., to be seen as an ongoing disaster).