At 14:41 13-2-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
A memo issued Friday briefed police officers on how to detect chemical agents: sarin is a colorless vapor that smells like Juicy Fruit gum; cyanide smells like burnt almonds.I wonder if the author of that memo realised that, by the time you actually smell that stuff, it's already too late...
Individual New Yorkers are weighing their own behavioral choices. Jodi Vigar, an administrative assistant who works in Manhattan and lives in Staten Island, vetoed the idea of buying duct tape and plastic to seal her windows.Saw a news report on that yesterday, in which a woman was actually using duct tape and plastic to seal her windows. Can't be good for the ventilation of the house. The report also included footage of people shopping in a New York store that specialises in stuff like gas masks, emergency kits and stuff like that. The place was visited by the same reporter a few months ago; back then there were hardly any customers, now the place was crowded. The owner said that before last Friday, he sold less than 10 gas masks per day; now they were going out by the dozens each day.
It also showed that educating the public is still needed: one woman said she was buying Iodine, because it would protect her in case of a chemical attack...
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Some mothers and fathers, who long ago returned their teenage children to the subways, have been driving them to and from school, just to be on the safe side.Thus increasing the traffic around schools, thereby increasing the risk of having those kids getting hit by a car (not to mention the traffic congestion). Brilliant...
Jeroen "Think before you act" van Baardwijk
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