[ RadSafe ] Re: Reasoning the Unreasonables (frm:Chernobyl's Reduced Impact)

[John Jacobus]

Howard,
What Jacque Cousteau philosopy are you talking about?

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:

> If HPs choose to protect, rather than follow the
> Jacques Cousteau philosophy 
> that mother earth should have c 300,000 people done
> away with daily
> (like Emil's spider lady?), then HPs should
> publicize to neighbors their preparedness 
> to monitor radiation levels in any emergency (as at
> www.Nukalert.com or www.Berkeleynucleonics.com ).
>  
> Howard Long
> 
> Emil <kerrembaev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> howard long wrote: 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: howard long 
> > Subject: Re: AW: AW: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl's
> Reduced Impact
> 
> > John and all,
> > Will LNT fears (cancer risk with <10rem) increase
> panic? 
> > With a dirty bomb in DC, could it cause stampede,
> as fear did in
> > Baghdad?
> > Can education and Nukalerts prevent disaster 
> > by reassurance of no harm unless exposed to that
> level for >X hours
> > or days?
> > 
> > "Fear itself, is our greatest fear" (or something
> like that from FD
> > Roosevelt)
> > 
> > Howard Long
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Howard,
> 
> I don't think some of them want to be "educated".
> It would be even in some people, other than
> terrorists, best interest
> to have bigger impact from the panic.
> 
> I will explain what I do mean.
> 
> The same logic would apply to prevent spent fuel
> save storage
> resolution. 
> 
> Let me tell share a recent personal encounter with
> someone who would
> value a hypothetical statistical environmental
> concern over the
> immediate risk to the persons/public health.
> 
> I was renting house, this Summer was very good for
> the spiders, a lot
> of them, a lot...
> I expressed my concerns to the house owner, lovely,
> lovely lady who
> would never kill a spider and she started educating
> me about
> harmlessness of the MOST spiders....
> 
> To make story short.
> 
> She refused to spray anything in and around the
> house with anything
> INORGANIC.... I moved out and during the process I
> was bitten by
> "hobo"-"the northwestern" spider, I was lucky, it
> was not the "brown
> recluse".
> 
> Cost me a lot of money, antibiotics and
> inconveniences to pull thru
> that accident :-) 
> Just do not want to deal with that person anymore. 
> I probably could have sued her butt for the damages,
> pain and
> sufferings, but I just got up and move on........on
> the other side of
> the Bay :-)
> 
> So what is the point?
> 
> The point is, some people have some kind of glasses
> on their eyes,
> they way they look on this world, thru those
> glasses, they do not see
> the real and immediate threat from things like
> spiders or spent fuel.
> They are more concern with, sort of saving this
> world as a WHOLE and
> at ONCE. 
> I, on the other hand, see my mission not that big, I
> do not think, I
> have that bigger responsibility, I am just trying to
> get along and
> not get bitten by a spider or get burned by a chunk
> of spent fuel..
> Okay?
> 
> 
> So long, Emil.
>

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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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