Anyone know what you can use in place of it or know of a place to get your hands on it real quick, those folks on the east coast are hearing the urgency now. Please let me know

Abby

-- Abby Lane (abbylane2001@hotmail.com), September 16, 2001

Answers

gotmine@before.rollover), September 16, 2001.

Sorry for bad link to ki4u.com

go here

-- Firemouse (myhtmlsux@oh.well), September 16, 2001.

Can Michael Hyatt be far behind?

-- Scam (artists@red.alert), September 16, 2001.

mock NOW SCAM FOOL.you won,t later.

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), September 16, 2001.

AL--

Are there currently serious problems with the NYC water supply (I haven't heard that in the news) or are you just anticipating? What is the purpose of your question?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 16, 2001.

FUCK OFF ABBEYLANE2001, SUCK ON A LEPROSY DICK AND SWALLOW IT!!

-- fuckoffabbeylane2001 (fuckoffabbeylane2001@fuckyou.com), September 16, 2001.

Lars, potassium iodide would be to block the uptake of radioactivity by the thyroid, in the event of a terrorist attack on a nuclear reactor (or, as is more likely most days, our own domestic incompetence and mismanagement of reactors). I would strongly suggest having in on hand in any case, as I don't feel the slightest confidence that the local authorities have sufficient on hand for emergencies or ways to distribute it fast enough.

Zero to do with the NYC water system. Those who would like to be prudent should remember that the rule of thumb is for one gallon of water per day per person. The Red Cross suggests having a two week supply on hand for an emergency.

-- Firemouse (gotpotassiumiodide?@radioactive.mustache), September 16, 2001.

Whoa, guys...anyone allergic to shellfish may die from ingesting KI. Anyone who isn't sure may die from an allergic reaction to KI. Many people can eat shellfish but cannot tolerate the iodine-based dye used in cat scans.

-- helen (be@careful.here), September 16, 2001.

I've never understood the fascination with KI. What does it buy you...a few hours, a few days beyond the death that will surely be your fate? Will you use this time to say, "Neenie, Neenie, Nah Hah" to your dead neighbors?

Thank you, very much, but if all my neighbors are going to die, I'd just as soon die with them.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), September 16, 2001.

I,M with you on this 1 Anita. leave your departure time with the LORD. if it gets that bad on earth.

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), September 16, 2001.

What's up with you and the "gas-masks", then, Al?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), September 16, 2001.

(Anita: "Neenie, Neenie, Nah Hah" ... ?)

-- Stephen M. Poole (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), September 16, 2001.

Anita,

You seem to be ignorant of the way KI works. It floods your thyroid with good iodine so that your thyroid cannot take up any radioactive iodine.

In the event of a nuclear reactor accident (or terrorist strike on a reactor), the radioactive fallout could very well blow over your area fairly quickly. The ingestion of KI prior to contact with this radioactive fallout could prevent you from developing one of the cancers that is often induced by radiation.

In other words, it could buy you a lot more than a few more days. It could buy you many years.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), September 16, 2001.

Am I to understand that radiation somehow only attacks the thyroid and doesn't effect anything else in the body? And here I thought it could kill cells in any area, hence why it is used in cancer treatments...

-- The Toner (the.toner@home.com), September 17, 2001.

The Toner,

Radiation can indeed effect the whole body, not just the thyroid. If you are close enough to a radioactive incident, KI will not help you. However, if you are in a fallout area downwind of an incident, and your radiation exposure is at a much lesser level than those at ground zero, KI could save your life.

You obviously have internet access; do some research on the subject. Specifically, check out data from the Chernobyl accident. Cancer rates of those (especially children, if memory serves) who took KI after the accident are dramatically lower than those who did not.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), September 17, 2001.

Spend your hard-earned money on KI, and gas masks, and bunkers. If it makes you feel better, run and hide.

It is such a shame some of you didn't learn anything from Y2K. You can choose to live in fear, or you can chose to live without fear. The choice is yours. However, if you chose to live WITH fear, you're a paranoid in the truest sense of the word.

-- Betsy Ross (Red White @nd .blue), September 17, 2001.

Oh but we did learn something. We learned not to pay attention the ranting and raving lunatics and fear mongers of the world like you, Betsy.

Get some help

-- (duh@duh.duh), September 17, 2001.

Abbey you can rub tincture of iodine on your skin and it will be absorbed into your thyroid and have a similar effect to Potassium Iodide. The only problem is how do you figure the dose? The Potassium Iodide bottle says to take it for 10 days, so you would probably need at least a couple of bottles of tincture of iodine per person. Get some Ascorbic Acid crystals too, and take lots of it for at least a week. Radiation kills via a massive release of free radicals that destroys the body.

-- RadGuy (hope@this.helps), September 17, 2001.