Sorry to report this but I knew it was coming.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Arrived on the East Coast today.
No matter what anybody says, I am a downwinder who KNOWS that NO level of radiation is "safe" and that the radiation plume from Fukushima is FAR from safe.
I am a "downwinder" whose kids suffered thyroid damage from leaky nuke facilities (civilian and military) in my community (according to their doctor). My spouse and I also suffered thyroid disease our doctor said was more likley than not caused by exposure to man made radionuclides near our home and where we swam on an almost daily basis for years (when the weather was nice).
Radiation in the air, water, on the beach, in the sand, in our milk from local cows and even probably from our organic garden.
This sucks. Now my kids and spouse and I have added insult to our thyroids, immune systems, dna, etc from a toxic radionuclide cocktail made by greedy corporofascists who do not care whether we live or die as long as they make their huge profits.
And, yeah, i am taking and have given them kelp, sardines, and bought some providone iodine to put patches or swaths on the skin as a protection from the radioiodine.
And I suppose I will be giving up milk and local veggies until this plume is no longer detectable in my neck of the woods.
In reality, it will keep spewing onto us for weeks or even months and when it rains it will get in the fish and trees and veggies and air and soil and we are just basically f*cked.
Remainign silent is not an option.
The US government is NOT releasing this data to us (it is being leaked to us by the NYTimes from anonymous sources who are monitoring the plume's course).
I neither trust Obama or the NRC or the industry to tell us the truth about the level of harm or how dangerous or not dangerous or harmless it is. "Miniscule" amounts can still be deadly. It might take thirty years to die from it (an agionizing death) or much less (a fetus exposed in the womb can have mutations and it may have birth defects or spontaneously abort and infants and children can develop leukemia, hypothyroidism or cancer, among other things).
Not only that but it will mutate bacteria and viruses so as our immune sytems are damaged bacteria and viruses which we HAD immunity to will mutate into bacteria and viruses like SARS, Lyme disease, Avian-swine flu, flesheating disease, etc (as predicted by Andrei Sakharov in the 1950's who predicted such pandemics caused by radionuclides spewing into the environment which got him f*cked over by his fascist Soviet overlords as it undermine their nuclear program).
I recommend folks read up at the website www.radiation.org for more on WHY this is a VERY BAD THING.
If my family had not been diagnosed by an MD who told us that local nuke facilities leakage was the probable cause of our disease and symtpoms, I might remain silent or bow to those who claim such positions are fear-mongering or hysteria. But when you have had to go through repeated operations with your own child and seen the harm your doctor says is probably from exposure to man-made radiation (in levels the government and industry says are "harmless" and are "acceptable levels") spewing into your community, water, beaches, air, milk and veggies and causing your children to suffer from life-threatening conditions which are most likely permanent (hypothyroidism is usually a life-long illness which can be deadly if not treated and treated properly) AND when you have seen them suffer in pain due to compromised immune systems causing infections and prolonged and serious life-threatening illness --- WHEN you have seen that and now see them being exposed to MORE of this sh*t...
well, forgive me...
I cannot be silent or meek about it. I can no longer be in denial or kowtow to the right wing pronuke or lefty-enviro "greenies" who think nukes are safe, clean, carbon free blessings to humanity. I have to call a spade a spade and a damn lie a damn lie.
And it makes me want to cry.
Because it is so unnecessary and is only caused by the greed of the super rich and the superelites and their callous attitude and narcissism and prototypical necrophilic fascism and their flunkies, fools, jesters and propaganda organs.
Its here. In the rain, On my children. In our yard. In their playgrounds. In our parks. in my garden. in my rivers and streams and fish and deer nearby and wild turkeys.\
And it will not go away. And many of us wil get sick. And many of us wil die from it.
Maybe not today or tomorrow. And maybe not for a decade or more. But in a decade my kids will still be young people. And they will have it in their bones and their blood and their bodies. And it may well kill them very painfully. One day. Not too long from now. And they may suffer awfully.
So forgive me if I am being "alarmist" or "Hysterical" or a "fear-mongerer".
I wish I fucking had been sooner.