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...understanding the average citizen has about what to do,” says Robert J. Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at the HSPH who directed the research. “The results suggest we have to have a serious conversation with the public, not about duct tape, but the usefulness of finding a safe room, to make sure somebody at school or at a workplace would know where to go if you couldn’t stay where...
Nevertheless, it is still too soon to run out to buy more plastic sheeting and duct tape. The disease that has been deemed an epidemic by some news sources has received much more hype than it deserves. In a replay of the 2001 anthrax hysteria, the latest infectious beastie to hit America has brought with it far more fear than fevers and more hand-wringing than hacking coughs...
...huge cash flow - almost one-tenth of its total $13 billion sales. Its stock price has made a steady 12% gain since February, despite the market's wartime worries. Besides, if the war stays nasty, jittery folk might start smoking again. BEIERSDORF: Sales of its Tesa-brand duct tape in the U.S. soared tenfold after...
...investment risks. Further economic contractions based on these fears will worsen an already ailing American economy. Foreign policy wonks often neglect to mention qualitative factors like the psychological benefits of peace and a feeling of security both domestically and abroad. The surge in domestic sales of gas masks and duct tape reflect a real change in our quality of life, not to mention the new dangers of traveling abroad when the world sees Americans as warmongers...
...tension between the desire to prepare for any and all potential events and concern over creating unnecessary fear and anxiety in the public and diverting scarce resources from other public health programs. Thus the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Americans to create rooms sealed with plastic and duct tape to withstand a chemical attack even as Randall J. Larsen, director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security calls such safe rooms a waste of time...