The CDC wants to gently prepare people for (an unlikely) nuclear war

[UpInArms]

Source: CNN

It is absolutely impossible to mention nuclear war without freaking people out, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to gently prepare for the possibility.

The CDC is holding a session January 16 to discuss personal safety measures and the training of response teams "on a federal, state, and local level to prepare for nuclear detonation."

The meeting, part of the agency's monthly Public Health Grand Rounds, will include presentations like "Preparing for the Unthinkable" and "Roadmap to Radiation Preparedness," and it will be held at the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta. "Grand rounds" are a type of meeting or symposium in which members of a public health community come together to discuss topics of interest or public importance.

This isn't the first time in recent months that official entities have informed the public about the consequences of a possible nuclear strike.
In August, amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from North Korea, Guam's Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense released a two-page fact sheet about what to do in the case of a nuclear event.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/health/cdc-nuclear-preparedness-trnd/index.html

[Girard442]

1. "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" is the full name of the CDC.

Gently preparing for nuclear war isn't controlling it or preventing it. Giving people good, solid, vivdly presented information about the known realities of nuclear war might. Of course, that would also make it crystal clear that anyone who would for a moment consider the use of nuclear weapons is a mad dog that needs to be put down.

[irisblue]

2. What the actual Hell?

[brush]

3. So they're preparing us in major met. areas to die immediately and others in rural areas to die...

later from fallout?

Come on, Mueller. Speed it up.

Get the addled brained monster out

[SCVDem]

4. So where are the fallout shelters?

As a child of the cold war I remember the CD triangles in every public building.

Where the hell are they now? The orange asshole knows California doesn't have basements, so he's looking for us to get hit first.

No shelters, no nukes!

[Girard442]

6. A fallout shelter would protect you from radiation so you could starve to death instead.

[elehhhhna]

9. Yes thank you. What you really want to pray for is that

Yes thank you. What you really want to pray for is the warhead lands on your forhead

[Yavin4]

20. And if you somehow survive starvation, you will have to fend off roving bands of hooligans

who will want to kill you and eat you. Is that gentle enough?

[dewsgirl]

11. No basements in Florida either, I know what your saying though.

He will allow you guys in blue states to suffer with no help. Just horrible.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Shucks, I wrote an OP telling people to do exactly this on a message board

and was told I was "kooky" and was punished for doing so.

[Girard442]

7. You too, huh?

[CrispyQ]

8. And the nut jobs in my family said they felt so much safer once Trump got in office.

I think he wants to use nukes. And I think a part of his base wants him to use them, too.

[Ccarmona]

10. Maui Re-Starts Monthly Air Raid Sirens Tests

On the first day of every month here on Maui the tsunami sirens are tested precisely at 11:45am. Well, in December, they added a second test, the nuclear siren test, which is a warbley siren instead of the constant siren of the tsunami warnings. In fact, we were at Costco this past Tuesday when the sirens were tested, and we had to talk the tourists loading their car next to us off the ledge when the sirens went off.

[Shipwack]

12. Eh, actually not a bad idea, and long overdue.

This is one of the things we need to prepare to deal with now, not after the fact.

It is not overstating the fact that for years (decades?) there have been groups that hate the US, and want to do it great harm. Nuclear weapons are becoming easier to research or obtain from elsewhere.

Eventually, someone will succeed in getting or developing one. They will not need a missile to deliver it. They can just put it in a shipping container and set it off in a major port. Even a crude low yield "dirty" bomb will render the place unusable and would be a major blow to our economy.

This doesn't even begin to consider the panic that this event would cause. You think that there was a lot of hysteria and useless regulations after 9/11? Just wait...

[Javaman]

13. Gently? WTF?

there is no gently with a fucking nuclear war.

I'm just so exhausted of this shit.

[BigmanPigman]

14. Maybe Fallout Shelters could be used as place to vote

during the midterms. If shelters are used and SEEN as polls perhaps more Americans would take this dangerous fake prez and GOP seriously and vote Dem.

[BadgerKid]

15. Can't understand why the 1% isn't motiviated to avoid disaster.

They can't revel in their riches if everybody gets fatally irradiated.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. They are buying up land in New Zealand n/t

[appalachiablue]

18. For a while now, esp. since 9/11 and the 2008 Crash. They have their private

plane airstrips in New Zealand, farmland for growing food there, and in a lower latitude from nuclear winter I think.

[ck4829]

17. Will transgender people be allowed to attend?

Or are they still un-people according to the CDC?

[packman]

19. "GENTLY" prepare for a nuclear war!!!

Does one realize how insanely stupid that sounds?

[Orange Free State]

21. This video from the CDC has Mitch McConnell telling us exactly what to do.

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Note the family picnic at 7:40 in. They use newspaper to protect themselves. Let’s all make sure we have enough newspaper to protect us from nuclear war. From the video, several sheets per person should work.
I don’t know what happened to the monkey who started it all. He just disappeared. Maybe he went to Mar-a-Lago.

[truthisfreedom]

22. Because 45 must get his bigger button fucking war on.

Dragging America back into the 50s.