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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
(206,072 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,044 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,072 posts)I think I knew already. My heart starts racing and my stomach wrenches every time I watch the news.
Blue Owl
(50,506 posts)n/t
trusty elf
(7,402 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,072 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
(33,433 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,072 posts)struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,433 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
(25,556 posts)hunter
(38,328 posts)rampartc
(5,436 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
(5,436 posts)and are having babies of their own.
the "war on terror" has gone on for a generation.
Igel
(35,359 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
(54,443 posts)TEB
(12,895 posts)Your inspirational