Just wondering how many of you may have followed our governments advice during this orange alert and went out and bought some duct tape?

 

Not to be a pessimist. But how in the world is duck tape and some plastic foil/sheets supposed to protect you from bio or chemical weapons?

Think for a second.

If you can seal up a room so that no chemicals can get into the room, then you've also sealed it up well enough that no AIR can get in the room either. So incase of a chemical attack instead of dieing because of poiseneous gas, you die because of the lack of another gas ( oxygen ).

And if you leave a crack so that air can get in well you also let the gas in.

To me it's the same bunch of BS as the "in case of a nuclear bomb attack cover your head and hide under your desk" safety information we got in the 50s and 60s.

-Seb

 

regardless of wheter or not you CAN seal any room.....if you could the oxygen in it would last quite some time....probably much longer than any chemical gas would linger....

 

Given the size of the US you'd probably have more chance of being hit by a bus than dying in a chemical attack. Surely if there were an attack it would be on high profile targets, cutting the risk for most people to approximately zero? Maybe you should all buy meteorite shielding for your homes too? I don't know, it's not something I'd be worried about.

 

Maybe I'm a cynic, but I think of myself as a realist - and I don't give even the slightest thought to that kind of crap.

I think this alert stuff is pure BS. I think the duct tape and plastic stuff is pure BS.

 

I think it's a devious plot from the duct tape and plastic sheeting manufacturers to sell their products.

 

A lot of good duct tape would do for "sealing" a room......It's gas permeable.

 

All serious car guys always have duct tape on hand. But just in case, I'm just going to buy a very very large Trojan and jump in it like Nelson did in Police Story.

 

I guess the people living out in the boonies would be really safe.

 

Sort of reminds me of the cold war days as a kid when we were told to hide under our desk during civil defense drills to prepare for a nuclear attack. FF to the future and we have some dude in Ohio (?) wrapping his entire house in plastic. I think this is him photographed leaving Home Depot. IOW,