Dear MAGA: 20190304 Open Topic

CAN GOODS you do not need expensive preppie stuff. Canned goods last for years.
Tuna fish, salmon, sardines, chicken, veggies, canned milk…
DRIED: beans, rice, pasta, noodles, sugar, flour, dry mixes, cereals, dry milk… SALT!
Dry canning for long term: http://www.happypreppers.com/dry-canning.html
Actually, all I do is toss the dry goods into clean dry glass jars without all the mess and fuss. If it will fit, I often will stick thefood in package and all. I just want to keep the critters out and a dried jar will keep the food for a year or more. This means you can go to Sam’s Club or Costco and buy a 6 month to a year supply in bulk. If you follow the dry canning instructions you are looking at 20 – 25 years because the jars and food has been sterilized via heat.
Do not forget your VITAMINS, potasium and IODINE esp. Thanks to changes in our food Americans are now deficient in iodine.
From E.M. Smith: Bromine, Iodine, Prostate and Breast Cancer
“Adding iodine to the diet of populations living in iodine-deficient areas and screening the high-risk groups could limit the radiological consequences.”
Bring your iodine levels up to normal is what you want to do BEFORE any risk. Also if you are deficient in iodine you will have ‘low energy’ (BTDT and now take iodine.)
Lessons of Chernobyl – with particular reference to thyroid cancer By Zbigniew Jaworowski (A personal HERO of mine)

The Chernobyl catastrophe was a dramatic personal experience for me – a difficult exam, which I am not sure that I passed. For many people engaged in radiological protection, though not all, it was a watershed that changed their view on the paradigm on which the present safety regulations are based, the holy mantra of LNT – the linear no-threshold assumption, according to which even the lowest, near-zero doses of radiation may cause cancer and genetic harm. For everybody it might serve as a yardstick for comparison of radiation risks from natural and man-made sources. It also sheds light on how easily the global community may leave the realm of rationality when facing an imaginary emergency….
In Poland, to save the population from effects of exposure to iodine-131, the government, upon my instigation, administered during three days a single dose of stable iodine to about 18.5 million people, the greatest prophylactic action in the history of medicine performed in so short a time. My medical colleagues and the Ministry of Health were rightly proud of the ingenious and innovative way they implemented this countermeasure. Recently several countries, including the USA, planned to follow in our flight. However, now I see this action as nonsensical. We endeavored to save Polish children from developing thyroid cancers by protecting them from a radiation dose of 50 mSv to the thyroid gland [7]. At this dose ICRP recommended implementation of stable iodine prophylaxis. But in studies of more than 34 000 Swedish patients whose thyroid glands received radiation doses reaching up to 40 000 mSv from iodine-131, there was no statistically significant increase in thyroid cancers in adults or children, who had not already been thought to have cancer before treatment with iodine-131. In fact, an opposite effect was observed: there was a 38% decrease in thyroid cancer incidence as compared with the non-irradiated population [8, 9]. In a much smaller British study of 7417 adult hyperthyroid patients whose thyroids received average radiation doses from iodine-131 reaching 300 000 mSv, a 17% deficit in incidence of all studied cancers was found [10]. Without the stable iodine prophylaxis and milk restrictions, the maximum thyroid dose would have reached about 1000 mSv in about 5% of Polish children [7]. All that I would now expect from this dose is a zero effect….

Fukushima

….Regarding releases to air and water leakage from Fukushima, the main radionuclide from among the many kinds of fission products in the fuel was volatile iodine-131, which has a half-life of 8 days. Iodine-131 decays to inert and stable xenon-131. Iodine is readily taken up by the body and accumulates in the thyroid gland. Three months after the accident (after fission ceased) I-131 had virtually disappeared as a problem.
The other main radionuclide is caesium-137, which has a 30-year half-life, is easily carried in a plume, and when it lands it may contaminate land for some time. It is a strong gamma-emitter in its decay. Cs-134 is also produced and dispersed, it has a 2-year half-life. Caesium is soluble and can be taken into the body, but does not concentrate in any particular organs, and has a biological half-life of about 70 days. In assessing the significance of atmospheric releases, the Cs-137 figure is multiplied by 40 and added to the I-131 number to give an ‘iodine-131 equivalent’ figure.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/appendices/fukushima-radiation-exposure.aspx

Chernobyl

414. The large number of thyroid cancers in individuals exposed in childhood, particularly in the severely contaminated areas of the three affected countries, and the short induction period are considerably different from previous experience in other accidents or exposure situations. Other factors, e.g. iodine deficiency and screening, are almost certainly influencing the risk. Few studies have addressed these problems, but those that have still find a significant influence of radiation after taking confounding influences into consideration. The most recent findings indicate that the thyroid cancer risk for those older than 10 years at the time of the accident is leveling off, the risk seems to decrease since 1995 for those 5-9 years old at the time of the accident, while the increase continues for those younger than 5 years in 1986…..
417. Adding iodine to the diet of populations living in iodine-deficient areas and screening the high-risk groups could limit the radiological consequences. Most data suggest that the youngest age group, i.e. those who were less than five years old at the time of the accident, continues to have an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer and should be closely monitored. In spite of the fact that many thyroid cancers in childhood are presented at a more advanced stage in terms of local aggressiveness and distant metastases than in adulthood, they have a good prognosis….
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/appendices/chernobyl-accident-appendix-2-health-impacts.aspx