Glad you are alright, but I can understand how your mum is freaking out, watching too much sensationalised news probably doesn't help! Why do people in the US need to buy iodine pills??
Anyway, good luck going back to Tokyo!
PS I sent you an email, not sure if you got it, just ignore it if not applicable! XD
Because we're all freaking out, since we know that we're under the jet stream bringing radioactive clouds of doom (and possibly giant rubber monsters) direct from Fukushima, and none of us can trust media sources anymore.
I can understand the media scare and incorrect scientific informaton being reported isn't helping people to stay calm or understand the real threats. If this cloud of doom would travel 5000 miles across to the West Coast, any radioactive material would be highly diluted in the atmosphere and futher decay over time. In fact, in the past when they had nuclear weapons tests in China, then there were similar clouds all the time without anybody caring about it at all. We get low doses of radiation all the time, so low level of exposure isn't that uncommon or necessarily dangerous. But taking iodine pills without medicical advice could cause harm to some people, especially those who have certain allergies, so that would be riskier than the potential cloud in my opinion!
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Glad you are alright, but I can understand how your mum is freaking out, watching too much sensationalised news probably doesn't help! Why do people in the US need to buy iodine pills??
Anyway, good luck going back to Tokyo!
PS I sent you an email, not sure if you got it, just ignore it if not applicable! XD
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I'm staying put, working away...
even going to get my haircut tomorrow.
Although all my foreign friends have/are bailing.
One's even sending me her keys to help her tidy up the apartment while she is gone in France!
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