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Again, COVID is just not that high a concern to mention it 8 times on a short page that is supposed to be giving advice about surviving a nuclear explosion.

You also don't want to light yourself on fire if you're cold, slit your wrists to drink the blood if you get thirsty, or try to loot the nearest gun store for protection.

Bringing hand sanitizer with you is stupid and ridiculous, and so is social distancing from your family or people who you are with while you're trying to help each other through the disaster. It's idiotic and wrong. Again, water, shelter, warmth, and basic communication are the most important.

Covid is an absolute non-issue in this situation.

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You're being incredibly hyperbolic with the "8 times" you keep saying. Only like 2 of those times are actually instructions about what to do if you have COVID.

The other are actually useful things, like: "While commuting, identify appropriate shelters to seek in the event of a detonation. Due to COVID-19, many places you may pass on the way to and from work may be closed or may not have regular operating hours."

You think that's bad, it's nothing compared with how hyperbolic the idiotic website is being about the danger of covid during a nuclear attack.

It appears from the wayback machine that they added the COVID precautions on or around November 11, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235211/https://www.ready...

A reminder that at that time there were no vaccines available, and the US was seeing a fairly large increase in both cases and deaths.

So someone was tasked with adding COVID precautions to this document then, and they have not been removed.

The idea that disease is a non-issue during a disaster (nuclear or otherwise) seems rather myopic. After a disaster, resources will be scarce, people may have to fend for themselves for a while or travel because they've been displaced. Why you wouldn't take reasonable and simple precautions to not throw disease on top of that is beyond me.

It also mentions not using disinfectant wipes on your skin, which is likely because it can cause irritation. Skin irritation also seems like an "absolute non-issue" and yet you aren't taking umbrage with that.

Again, see my previous post. Putting covid 8 times there (and no mention of any other disease or infection) is stupid and wrong.

Bleeding control, preventing infection of open wounds, and basic splinting of broken bones etc are all far higher priority on the medical scale anyway.

Why are you making excuses for this absurdity?

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