Reply #38: I agree. I was just talking to my girlfriend this morning and explaining about the foot-dragging... [View All]

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...in regards to classifying the severity of this disaster. By attempting to downplay the severity to cover their own ass, though, many innocent people and even other governments were deceived into believing that the situation was not as dire as it is.

Many more people are in much graver danger because of this than there should be. Specifically, I'm thinking of the "20-30 club", those poor souls who are some of the first, and maybe worst victims of this- who reside between 20 and 30km away from Fukushima and were told not to leave but to get directly indoors and, as you had pointed out a day or two ago, been given instructions for gross decontamination.

And we both know A) what that means and B) how well that's going to work for them if they really are contaminated.

:cry:

PB